The third plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be held between Nov. 9 and 12, the official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday after a Politburo mee ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-29
With the dawning of the era of fourth-generation (4G) wireless telecommunications, China Mobile (00941.HK, CHL.US) has wasted no time in bolstering the number of its 4G base stations to over 200,000 n ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-29
A reform proposal paper published by the Development Research Centre of the State Council has grabbed a lot of attention recently as one of its co-editors, Liu He {劉鶴}, is widely considered to be the ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-29
The unit price of a nondescript office building in Waigaoqiao {外高橋}, Shanghai’s faraway suburban district that is close to virtually nothing but some container berths, can skyrocket almost threefold w ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-29
Is BYD (01211.HK) chairman Wang Chuanfu {王傳福} too obsessed with technical breakthroughs? With much fanfare last month, Wang revealed that the E9, its next generation of e-sports cars, needed just 3.9 ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-28
Beijing is bent on forming a national team for the domestic infant milk powder market that can compete with the best multinational brands, but some of the leading homegrown dairy firms complain that t ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-28
Diversified Hong Kong-based HKI Group will finally shutter its garment factories and retail clothing businesses in the Pearl River Delta over the next three years as profit margins unravel from rising ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-25
Two sets of events -- one involving a mainland newspaper and the other two foreign companies -- fueled more speculation this week about the chill blowing through China’s political and economic landsca ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-25
Encouraging private capital into industries that are mostly owned by the state has been one of the main policies of the Chinese government in recent years. But now the spotlight has turned to the phar ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-25
Former Communist Party Politburo member Bo Xilai {薄熙來} has failed in his appeal against a life sentence for graft handed down by Shandong's Jinan Intermediate People's Court last month, the province's ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-25
Vice premier Ma Kai {馬凱} said China and the European Union (EU) are keen to improve economic cooperation after a decade of strategic partnership, Xinhua reported Thursday, citing a column Ma wrote in ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-25
All it took was a supportive gesture by Premier Li Keqiang {李克強} to get investors piling back into China's railway sector. It helped that a building frenzy is under way on several intercity train proj ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-24
Baidu, in cooperation with China Asset Management Co. Ltd., will officially launch its online wealth management platform next week. Its flagship product called Baifa {百發} offers an annual yield of 8 p ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-24
Buying a high-rise property in downtown Manhattan may have been a one-off shot by Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang {郭廣昌} to snap up a bargain overseas in the battered sector, but he is for sure dead ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-24
It was an unusual front page for New Express on Wednesday. The Guangzhou-based daily demanded in bold type the immediate release of one of its reporters held in criminal detention, openly questioning ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-23
Third-party payment behemoth UnionPay has raised the stakes in online wealth management and internet payments, launching its Tian Tian Fu {天天富} product last week through its wholly owned subsidiary, C ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-23
No less than Premier Li Keqiang {李克強} has been pitching China's high-speed railway technology around the world. His last stop was Thailand where China is competing for US$12.8 billion worth of high-sp ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-23
Premier Li Keqiang {李克強} said China's government debt is at a safe and manageable level, news website yicai.com reported Tuesday. However, Li said Beijing should strengthen audit and oversight of loca ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-23
The Ministry of Science and Technology said last week that the State Council has approved the latest subsidy scheme for new-energy vehicles and as many as four ministries are working to release the ne ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-23
A group of Chinese billionaires, who can easily muster more than 10 billion yuan (US$1.64 billion) in combined wealth, reportedly paid a visit to the United States this month. But their trip wasn't to ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-22
