Deputy Agriculture Minister Niu Dun {牛盾} said China must put more effort in developing transgenic technologies to feed its huge population, XiaoXiang Morning Herald reported Tuesday. Niu also said foo ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-04
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. In the highly volatile world of the internet, this adage means don't focus on just one core business or operate just one platform. In their latest report cards, ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-04
The head of China's top political advisory body opened an annual plenum Monday with a plea. Yu Zhengsheng {俞正聲}, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said the gr ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-04
Zhou Yuanqing, the brother of former security czar Zhou Yongkang {周永康} who is under investigation over alleged graft, was held in early December last year along with his wife from their home in Wuxi i ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-03
In one of the most horrific acts of terror in China in recent years, a group of about 10 knife-wielding assailants went on a rampage at a train station in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, over ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-03
She's an actress, he's an alien and the show is a close encounter that's proving an out-of-this-world-smash hit in China. So much so that one online game developer in Xiamen reportedly gave its worker ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-28
Like there's no tomorrow, internet behemoth Tencent (00700.HK) has been snapping up assets left and right, the latest of which is restaurant rating site Dianping which was added to its e-commerce busi ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-28
President Xi Jinping {習近平} has vowed to build China into a network security superpower, the Securities Times reported Thursday, citing a China Central Television bulletin. According to CITIC Securitie ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-28
President Xi Jinping {習近平} said Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province need to coordinate development in the interests of national strategy, the environment and better use of economic resources, Xinhua r ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-28
For years, commuters on Shenzhen Metro’s Longhua Line {龍華線} have been asking the same question: why can't a world renowned metro operator known for its premium train services live up to public expecta ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-27
HSI ends higher amid volatile trade Hong Kong stocks closed higher in volatile trade Wednesday after clawing back lost ground early in the day. The benchmark Hang Seng Index rose rose 120 points, or 0 ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-26
China will continue to focus on economic reform and accomplish goals in certain important areas this year, the politburo of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) Central Committee said after a meeting ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-25
Talk about a whirlwind romance. It took Facebook 11 days to court mobile messaging portal WhatsApp and one week to hash out the details. Now the parties are ready to live life together. And it all cam ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
Premier Li Keqiang {李克強} said the government's anti-corruption campaign has had significant progress in the past year and efforts to improve oversight, law enforcement, approval procedures and discipl ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
The Chinese government will push forward reforms that will encourage private capital to contribute in the construction and operation of the infrastructure projects led by the government, Finance Minis ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan {周小川} said that China will draw on international experience to keep tabs on China's growing but still relatively small shadow banking sector, the China S ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
More than halfway through the 12th Five-Year Plan for railway construction, China Railway Corp. (CRC) is stuck, with the prospect of missing its 120,000 kilometer target looking increasingly ominous. ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-21
Guangdong University of Finance president Lu Lei {陸磊} is believed to be on his way to join the People's Bank of China (PBoC) as head of its Research Institute of Finance, the China Business News repor ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-20
A 30-minute ride on the Shenzhen Metro from the downtown area to Longgang {龍崗} district will take you to the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen campus. The 100-hectare campus -- construction j ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-19
Cross-border investment in China gained ground in the first month of 2014, with foreign direct investment (FDI) up 16.11 percent to US$10.76 billion in January from a year earlier, the Ministry of Com ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-18
