Its members do not have formal contracts, and yet they have become a crucial part of China’s labour supply, accounting for a ...

Falling prices are a problem across the world’s second-largest economy, leaving consumers uncertain about the future and ...

Foreign investors are plotting a return to China's stock markets in a big way three years after pulling back and terming them ...

Dan Wang The premise of the book is that China is a country I call the engineering state because, at various points, all nine members of the politburo, the highest ruling echelon of the Communist ...

Both the “engineering state” and the “mayor economy” framings obscure the critical mechanics of China’s growth machine.

Key Points and Summary - China's leadership, including Xi Jinping, is now openly admitting to a crisis of industrial "overcapacity," a problem they have termed "involution." -This counterproductive ...

The Chinese government is taking steps to rein in what it calls “involution,” or excessive competition that is hurting local companies and fueling the country’s deflationary spiral. Auto parts inside ...

Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak shares her experience with unreliable government statistics.

With growth slowing in the world’s second largest economy, Beijing is trying to stoke demand in sectors as varied as health ...

In March of the same year, Evergrande's founder Hui Ka Yan was fined $6.5m (£4.8m) and banned from China's capital market for life for his company overstating its revenue by $78bn. The company was ...

Given China’s importance to the world economy and its ongoing competition with the United States for global power and legitimacy, the opaqueness of China’s political system and its lack of an ...

Shanghai programme providing grants to scientists who have given birth intended to ease the twin burdens of motherhood and ...