China is boasting of its growing economic and political development as the country comes to a standstill for the once-every-five-years Communist Party Congress.
Ai shot 900 hours of footage and conducted 600 interviews over the course of a year, and edited the film over six months.
In the second quarter of this year, Huawei held a 11.3 percent market share, shipping 38.5 million units, IDC data show. Apple meanwhile shipped 41 million iPhones and had a 12 percent market share in the same period.
Regulators elsewhere may be clamping down on the financial industry’s use of private messaging apps, but in the world’s second-largest economy the practice is flourishing.
While the National Science Foundation in the US has no increase in funding this year, China has promised to “vigorously use governmental and social capital” to dominate the industry.
That political will overlaps with an economic need to rein in surplus production of steel, aluminum and other basic materials after years of over-investment. How and when that capacity gets replaced will be a key factor in the economy’s performance beyond 2017.
The Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress, a hugely important political meeting usually held once every five years, will begin on October 18 in Beijing. Like many events involving China’s ruling party, the most important decisions and conversations will happen behind closed doors. Most attention will focus on the political horse race for top positions in the leadership. But apart from that, what else is worth watching? What signs could emerge that would demonstrate China is moving in a positive direction? And how should the connection between leadership choices and policy direction best be understood?
Tristan Kenderdine is Research Director at Future Risk, working on trade, industry, and agricultural policy across China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He has worked extensively on confidential macroeconomic commissioned research projects including as Junior Expert for the European Commission. Kenderdine was Trade and Industry Research Manager in Beijing for research and advisory China Policy for three years with work covering China’s industrial upgrading; science and technology policy; agricultural and metals commodities markets; cross‐border e‐commerce; international maritime law and polar policy; finance and fiscal policy; and agricultural finance. Kenderdine has taught postgraduate public policy at the Australian National University and Dalian Maritime University.
China reported strong trade data on Friday just days ahead of a major Communist Party Congress.
American presidents have a habit of describing their Chinese counterparts in terms of awe. A fawning Richard Nixon said to Mao Zedong that the chairman’s writings had “changed the world”. To Jimmy Carter, Deng Xiaoping was a string of flattering adjectives: “smart, tough, intelligent, frank, courageous, personable, self-assured, friendly”.
