China, Are You Ready for Some American Football?
on November 12, 2012
The NFL is hoping that American football’s flash could someday give basketball and soccer a run for their money in China.
China's Loans Unexpectedly Fall as Money Supply Misses Forecast
on November 12, 2012
Central Bank governor warns China is still deal with the effects of five years of financial crisis overseas.
Xinhua Insight: China Will Never Copy Western Political System
on November 12, 2012
Xinhua says Hu Jintao wants China to support state power and at the same time improve the system of community-level democracy.
Weighing Risks Amid a Wealth Management Boom
A Banker and a Regulator Have Widened the Debate over China’s Popular Wealth Management Sector
on November 12, 2012
Is China’s wealth management business a booming profit volcano for investors, or just another smoke-and-mirrors pyramid scheme?
It’s a question dividing the nation’s bankers and banking regulators as investors of all kinds pour cash into bank-sponsored wealth management products.
The amount of money managed by China’s banks for wealth management clients climbed to a combined six trillion yuan in June, up from just 1.7 trillion yuan at the end of 2009, data from the banking regulator shows.
Recording the Untold Stories of China’s Great Famine
on November 11, 2012
A young man trudges doggedly around his village, notebook in hand, fringe flopping over his glasses. He goes from door to door, calling on the elderly.
The young man has one main question: Who died in our village during the Great Famine?
This is the Folk Memory Project, which has sent 108 young interviewers out to 130 rural villages to gather oral histories. So far, nine of them have completed documentary films about the death toll during the Great Famine of the late 1950s and early 1960s in their own villages.
Exclusive: Hu Jintao Set to Step Down as Military Chief
on November 11, 2012
Outgoing President Hu Jintao will formally relinquish his position as military chief at the end of the 18th party congress this week, according to sources.
His decision to opt for complete retirement surprised many analysts, who had expected him to keep the top job at the party's Central Military Commission.
China Film Regulator: Don't Blame us for Hollywood Hiccups
on November 11, 2012
Beijing says it was the market that decided to bar imported films from domestic cinemas this summer, not film regulators.
Building China's Enlightenment
on November 11, 2012
China's most ambutious, radical and consequential think tank behind the scenes at the 18th Party Congress.
China Considers Limiting Foreign Education Agents
on November 11, 2012
The Education Ministry is considerting restricting the international education agencies that help Chinese students study overseas.
China, at Party Congress, Touts its Cultural Advances
on November 11, 2012
Party guidance is the "soul” of China's moves to privitize and promote industries that can spread soft power abroad.