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In Depth: Will China’s Push for Banks to Fuel Tech Growth Pay Off?
2025-08-03
An expanded pilot aims to let more banks fund tech startups via equity, but risks and talent gaps could limit its effectiveness
Cover Story: Succession, Scandal and Bottled Water — the Real Battle at the Heart of Wahaha Court Case
2025-08-03Inside the billion-dollar tug-of-war shaking China’s most iconic beverage brand
In Depth: China’s Surging Auto Sales Mask an Industry in Crisis
2025-08-03The world’s largest auto market is buckling under the weight of a prolonged price war that’s slashing profits, straining suppliers and triggering the government to intervene
In Depth: Province’s Grassroots Soccer League Scores Consumption Goals
2025-08-03The Jiangsu Football City League may generate as much as 300 million yuan for the cities involved
In Depth: When Is a Bribe Not a Bribe?
2025-08-03As China’s anti-graft drive ensnares ever more officials, legal scholars are debating how to handle cases in which a bribe is agreed, but never paid
In Depth: China Intensifies War on Toxic Competition as Economy Suffers
2025-08-03Policymakers aren’t just focusing on the demand-supply imbalance anymore, but trying to tackle deeper problems, including local government subsidies and unfair corporate practices
In Depth: Sinovac’s Covid Fortune Fuels Bitter Boardroom Battle
2025-08-03A legal fight across three countries has left its shares suspended on the Nasdaq for six years and $10 billion of cash stuck in the bank
Cover Story: A New Gold Rush Begins in China’s Hard Tech Sector
2025-08-03China’s capital-hungry hard tech industries are now the focus of an investor frenzy – but can it last?
Analysis: What’s Behind China’s Urgent Consumption Problem
2025-08-03A combination of low household income and high savings is holding back the economic recovery, but the problem runs deeper than just consumer confidence
In Depth: Gun-Parts Maker Faces a Decade in Prison Over Tiny Nut
2025-08-03Ma Xiaoqiang claimed in court his ‘iron heads’ are not on China’s banned firearm component list and were destined for toy gun vendors — prosecutors argue they are illegal firearm parts
In Depth: AI Foray Is Teaching China’s Edtech Firms a Valuable Lesson
2025-08-03Edtech companies are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence, but it remains to be seen whether the technology is up to the task
In Depth: Tackling China’s Heavy-Handed Environmental Pollution Penalties
2025-08-03As Beijing drafts a sweeping environmental code, local enforcers and scholars push for top-level changes to address a system that often levies crippling penalties for minor mistakes
In Depth: The Consumption Conundrum Dividing China’s Economists
2025-08-03Influential voices say the country needs another massive infrastructure push to bolster growth, arguing consumption is already strong. Others warn this is a delusion and that boosting household income is the only way forward
Cover Story: Controversial Mind-Body Therapy Attracts Over 1 Million Chinese Seeking Miraculous Cures
2025-08-03Marketed as low-cost healing, the therapy is drawing scrutiny over unproven claims, emotional manipulation and suspected abuse of public insurance
In Depth: Trump’s Stablecoin Embrace Ups Pressure on China to Join Race
2025-08-03Stablecoins’ potential to transform the global payments system and maintain the dollar’s dominance could threaten China’s strategy to internationalize the e-CNY
In Depth: India’s Sputtering Efforts to Boost Manufacturing Investment
2025-08-03Poor infrastructure and an inconsistent regulatory environment are turning off global companies
In Depth: The Illicit Drug Trade Lurking Behind ‘Free’ Dialysis
2025-08-03Patients and staff at a chain of clinics in Sichuan province participated in a scheme to defraud the health insurance system by obtaining prescriptions for far more medication than they needed, which they sold on to middlemen
In Depth: The Scam That Turned China’s Housing Slump Into a Cash Machine
2025-08-03Speculators are exploiting the discrepancy between low actual sale prices and high official valuations
Cover Story: Developers Impose Deeper ‘Haircuts’ on Creditors in Latest Debt Overhauls
2025-08-03China’s spiraling property slump sends developers down path of radical debt restructuring
In Depth: China’s Livestreaming Apps Face a Reckoning Over Gambling
2025-08-03A crackdown has ensnared nearly 100 voice-streaming platforms since 2023
In Depth: Indonesia Confronts Foreign Investment-Green Transition Paradox
2025-08-03As Jakarta courts capital from partners like China to boost sectors from manufacturing to mining, its coal dependence is pushing clean energy goals further out of reach
In Depth: China’s Preschoolers Are Stilling Cramming for First Grade
2025-08-03Despite a crackdown that aimed to lighten the burden on students, the gap between kindergarten curriculums and primary schools’ expectations is piling pressure on parents and their young children
Cover Story: The Rise and Fall of China’s ‘Fentanyl King’ in Corruption-Fueled Bankruptcy
2025-08-03Dangdai founder Ai Luming vows rebound as empire leaves investors, creditors underwater
In Depth: Can China Provide Middle-Schoolers Long-Promised Exam Relief?
2025-08-03Cities are trying to ease the pressure by reducing the number of subjects included on the high-school entrance test, but experts and parents alike say deeper reform is needed
Cover Story: Alibaba Fights Tencent for Dominance Over AI in China
2025-08-03DeepSeek’s surprise entry triggers Chinese arms race for artificial intelligence
In Depth: Chinese Companies’ Route to Wall Street Faces SEC Scrutiny
2025-08-03The U.S. stock regulator wants to change the criteria for foreign private issuer status, which has given overseas companies exemptions from stricter disclosure requirements
Cover Story: Chinese Biotech Is Having a ‘DeepSeek Moment’
2025-08-03A flurry of multibillion-dollar deals marks China’s emergence as a leading force in the innovative drug sector
In Depth: Can China’s A-Share Giants Push Hong Kong to Top Global IPO Spot?
2025-08-03Battery giant CATL’s massive share sale in Hong Kong has put the city’s bourse on course to become the world’s top fundraising market in 2025
In Depth: As China Pursues Carbon Goals, Coal Heartland Faces Uphill Struggle
2025-08-03Shanxi’s government hopes the province’s future lies in tech innovation, clean energy
In Depth: Project to Beat Back the Sahara Struggles to Take Root, Even With Chinese Expertise
2025-08-03Despite some modest successes, the Great Green Wall has been hampered by an insufficient budget, climate change and political upheaval in one of Africa’s most unstable regions
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