Jiangsu vs Guangdong: why the battle to be China’s No 1 economy is heating up
The southern Guangdong province has been the largest engine powering China’s economic rise for decades. But the region…
China’s aging population is saving its way towards economic stagnation
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First and second largest economies in charts and figures
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.Two can be as bad as one.It’s the loneliest number…
Open Questions | Why US economist Nicholas Lardy thinks the ‘peak China’ theory has peaked
Nicholas Lardy is a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a member of…
From rail to nuclear power, China taps private capital to fund major projects
China has unveiled new measures designed to channel private capital into traditionally state-funded infrastructure projects, as Beijing steps…
US risks AI debt bubble as China faces its ‘arithmetic problem’, leading analysts warn
Two of the leading experts on the world’s biggest economies warn that both countries face serious challenges in…
Nobel laureate Spence on China: fix property, restore confidence – tariffs are secondary
Restoring confidence and stabilising the property market are “significantly more important” for China than the ramifications of tariffs,…
China’s property market poised to decline at least through 2026, S&P analyst says
China’s vast property market is expected to continue to decline at least through the next year, according to…
China’s sustained economic growth has internal logic – Opinion
CAI MENG/CHINA DAILY Since the founding of the People”s Republic of China, and especially since the launch of…
Measures seek to curb disorderly price competition in China
A customer selects condiments at a supermarket in Wuxi, East China’s Jiangsu province, Dec 9, 2024. (PHOTO /…
China’s local governments urgently need cash. Can the 5-year plan find it?
As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that…
China’s Xi calls for building unified market to ‘secure an edge’ in global race
President Xi Jinping has called for more efforts to develop a unified domestic market, arguing that it will…