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In Depth: Gulf States Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Chinese Tourists as Focus Shifts From Oil

In Depth: Gulf States Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Chinese Tourists as Focus Shifts From Oil

2025年01月24日

UAE and Saudi Arabia are transforming themselves into destinations for art and culture, hoping to attract visitors from around the world

In Depth: Beijing’s Ban on Mineral Exports to U.S. Leaves Traders Scrambling

In Depth: Beijing’s Ban on Mineral Exports to U.S. Leaves Traders Scrambling

2025年01月24日

Intermediaries are rushing to find alternative suppliers, while Chinese firms try to secure export licenses

In Depth: Venture Capital in China Flounders as State Takes Over (Part 2)

In Depth: Venture Capital in China Flounders as State Takes Over (Part 2)

2025年01月23日

State Council steps in to address complaints of VC firms who manage the money of government guidance funds, including plans to change an outdated evaluation system that’s distorting investment

Cover Story: Where Best to Invest in China’s Low-Interest-Rate Era

Cover Story: Where Best to Invest in China’s Low-Interest-Rate Era

2025年01月20日

Chinese investors navigating unchartered waters in search for decent returns in a time of low interest rates

In Depth: Chinese Drugmakers Find Fertile, but Challenging Market in Indonesia

In Depth: Chinese Drugmakers Find Fertile, but Challenging Market in Indonesia

2025年01月17日

Pharmaceutical firms are running into obstacles that include local protectionism and conflicting work cultures as they take their products to market in Southeast Asia’s largest economy

In Depth: China’s ‘EV Battery Capital’ Turns to Solar

In Depth: China’s ‘EV Battery Capital’ Turns to Solar

2025年01月17日

Southwestern city Yibin, once known for coal and baijiu, is pitching hard for the new energy sector as local battery production has become saturated

In Depth: Why China’s Banks Are Stock Market Darlings — for Now

In Depth: Why China’s Banks Are Stock Market Darlings — for Now

2025年01月17日

Despite long-standing concerns about asset quality and sluggish profit growth, banks’ shares have been snapped up by yield-hungry investors

In Depth: The Chinese Team Rewriting the Story of Early Evolution

In Depth: The Chinese Team Rewriting the Story of Early Evolution

2025年01月17日

A study of tiny algae-like fossils is challenging the idea that multicellular life only emerged 1 billion years ago, pushing back the timeline by hundreds of millions of years

In Depth: China’s Rising Local Government Bond Risks Spur Policy Changes

In Depth: China’s Rising Local Government Bond Risks Spur Policy Changes

2025年01月15日

Audits over the last few years show that the projects funded by special-purpose bonds often generate meager returns, raising questions about how localities will be able to pay back the bonds

In Depth: China’s Booming Cross-Border E-Commerce Pits Alipay, WeChat Pay Against the World

In Depth: China’s Booming Cross-Border E-Commerce Pits Alipay, WeChat Pay Against the World

2025年01月14日

Although their QR code-based systems are convenient for buyers, poor transparency and a lack of alignment with international standards have drawn complaints from banks and scrutiny from regulators

Cover Story: Tightening the Rule Book to Make China’s Internet Platforms Fairer

Cover Story: Tightening the Rule Book to Make China’s Internet Platforms Fairer

2025年01月13日

State Council calls for measures to ensure orderly competition and fairer business practices among internet platforms

In Depth: China’s Self-Driving Tech-Makers Downshift

In Depth: China’s Self-Driving Tech-Makers Downshift

2025年01月10日

As the industry confronts difficult technological hurdles, the country’s most prominent developers are focusing on lower-level assisted driving systems and less complex applications like trucking

In Depth: China Embarks on Reform of 30-Year-Old Arbitration Law

In Depth: China Embarks on Reform of 30-Year-Old Arbitration Law

2025年01月10日

The system has faced several challenges, including excessive administrative influence, limited foreign-related mechanisms, and shortcomings in internal governance

In Depth: Why More Chinese Companies Are Getting Sued by Aggrieved Investors

In Depth: Why More Chinese Companies Are Getting Sued by Aggrieved Investors

2025年01月08日

The number of class-action lawsuits accepted by China’s courts has jumped in the last few months as the government seeks to boost confidence in the stock market

In Depth: Chinese Merchants Plow Cash Into Overseas Warehouses Amid Global E-Commerce Boom

In Depth: Chinese Merchants Plow Cash Into Overseas Warehouses Amid Global E-Commerce Boom

2025年01月07日

The trend has top-level support, with government agencies calling for even more investment

Cover Story: Chinese AI Startups Make Gains in Challenge to U.S.-based OpenAI

Cover Story: Chinese AI Startups Make Gains in Challenge to U.S.-based OpenAI

2025年01月06日

Investors bet China’s Zhipu AI and MiniMax can overcome U.S. limits on advanced chips

In Depth: Why China’s Judicial System Is Reforming Its Rigid Evaluation Criteria

In Depth: Why China’s Judicial System Is Reforming Its Rigid Evaluation Criteria

2025年01月03日

The country’s highest court and top prosecutor’s office have taken steps to scale back metrics that can create perverse incentives for officers of the court

In Depth: Decades-Old Research Pact Survives China-U.S. Tensions

In Depth: Decades-Old Research Pact Survives China-U.S. Tensions

2025年01月03日

While some argue that new ‘guardrails’ could hinder collaboration, others say that these changes will have only a limited impact on the development of fields like AI

Q&A: China’s Climate Envoy Says Having a Result Better Than No Deal

Q&A: China’s Climate Envoy Says Having a Result Better Than No Deal

2025年01月02日

The country is playing a bigger role on the issue, participating and leading in both negotiations and action, Liu Zhenmin says

In Depth: Venture Capital in China Flounders as State Takes Over (Part 1)

In Depth: Venture Capital in China Flounders as State Takes Over (Part 1)

2024年12月27日

Onerous terms imposed on VC firms that manage the money of government guidance funds, along with an outdated evaluation system, are distorting investment, insiders say

In Depth: Drugmakers Under Pressure as Beijing Drives a Hard Bargain

In Depth: Drugmakers Under Pressure as Beijing Drives a Hard Bargain

2024年12月27日

The latest round of bulk drug-buying for China’s national health care system saw some of the steepest price cuts yet

In Depth: Some of China’s Legion of Knockoff-Busters Turn to Extortion

In Depth: Some of China’s Legion of Knockoff-Busters Turn to Extortion

2024年12月27日

Some professional fraud-busters are using their knowledge of the law to win major payouts with threats of bad publicity

In Depth: China Offers More Choice to Boost Contributions to Its Pension System Fix

In Depth: China Offers More Choice to Boost Contributions to Its Pension System Fix

2024年12月27日

Policymakers have expanded the range of investments approved for personal retirement accounts, but insiders still see room for improvement

In Depth: Why China’s Longest River Is Being Drained

In Depth: Why China’s Longest River Is Being Drained

2024年12月27日

Increasing bouts of flooding and drought are causing the water level of the Yangtze to fluctuate rapidly, and the problem is being exacerbated by the hundreds of millions of people who tap the river for fresh water

In Depth: Canal Fever Grips China Amid Slowing Growth

In Depth: Canal Fever Grips China Amid Slowing Growth

2024年12月25日

Transporting goods on inland waterways is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than using roads or railways, but provinces are at risk of throwing money at projects that won’t pay off

Interview: Singapore’s Central Bank Chief on Crypto, AI and Battling Inflation

Interview: Singapore’s Central Bank Chief on Crypto, AI and Battling Inflation

2024年12月23日

The country has no plans to roll out a retail central bank digital currency at this juncture, says Chia Der Jiun

Cover Story: Baidu-Geely Joint EV Failure Reflects Treacherousness of Chinese Market

Cover Story: Baidu-Geely Joint EV Failure Reflects Treacherousness of Chinese Market

2024年12月23日

Ji Yue Auto’s powerful backers couldn’t save it from price wars or missteps

Four Things to Know About China’s 2025 Economic Outlook

Four Things to Know About China’s 2025 Economic Outlook

2024年12月20日

At two major meetings this month, China’s leadership resolved to deal with the country’s economic headwinds, including the protracted real estate slump and weak domestic demand

In Depth: China Launches New Plan to Tackle Tuberculosis

In Depth: China Launches New Plan to Tackle Tuberculosis

2024年12月20日

The country will take a more active approach to detecting cases of the infectious disease, which is prevalent across many regions, from some of the wealthiest to the most remote

In Depth: TikTok Turns to U.S. Supreme Court, Trump in Last Ditch Effort

In Depth: TikTok Turns to U.S. Supreme Court, Trump in Last Ditch Effort

2024年12月20日

The two potential lifelines offer only slim chances of reversing a law that would ban the popular app unless its Chinese parent ByteDance sells it

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