The Wall Street Journal: Covering China Past and Present

ChinaFile Presents

on May 1, 2013

The Wall Street Journal was one of the first American publications to set up a bureau in Beijing. Since its establishment, scores of the Journal’s correspondents have traveled in and out of the country to cover China’s economic and political development. On April 30th, 2013, ChinaFile hosted a cross-section of this extremely talented pool of foreign correspondents to help reflect on China’s progress, past and present.

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The Long Battle Over “White Pollution”

on May 1, 2013

In the past weeks, Chinese citizens have learned that the styrofoam boxes from which they eat their lunches will soon be legal. On February 16, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s highest economic policy-making body, changed the Industrial Restructuring Catalog (2011) and removed disposable foam plastic tableware from the list of banned products. On May 1, the fourteen-year ban will be formally removed.