Chinese Economy

Chinese Factories Face Surprising Labor Shortage

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


XINTANG, China — During the first half of this year, Yang Zongfu's blue jean factory had few customers. Now, as his business picks up, he can't ...

China Concubines Return Thanks To Increasing Capitalism

The Independent | Clifford Coonan | Posted 09.26.2009 | World


From the Independent Mao Tse-tung tried to stamp the custom out as a relic of feudalism, but the return of capitalism to China has also meant a major...

Shut Out At Home, Americans Flock To China For Surging Economy

New York Times | HANNAH SELIGSON | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business


Shanghai and Beijing are becoming new lands of opportunity for recent American college graduates who face unemployment nearing double digits at home. ...

Will the Chinese Economy Save the World?

Sheldon Filger | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


Sheldon Filger

A growing number of Chinese officials are on record as believing that the U.S. dollar will eventually lose its role as the world reserve currency.

Geithner: China Should Decrease Exports

wsj.com | MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner heads to Beijing this weekend to urge Chinese leaders to fundamentally alter the export-oriente...

Defying the Economic Odds

Dilip Hiro | Posted 06.06.2009 | World


Dilip Hiro

Recognizing that its time has indeed come, Beijing has decided to play an active, interventionist role in the international financial arena.

Ah So, China Is the Way to Go

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

What are the best ways to play China and other Asian markets, which should also benefit handsomely from the Chinese rebound?

Chinese Youth and the Economic Crisis

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 05.04.2009 | World


Julian Baird Gewirtz

The economic developments of the past year have moderated, but certainly not destroyed, the enthusiasm for freer markets among the future economic leaders of China's so-called socialist system.

Chinese Annual Meeting To Be Dominated By Economy, Preventing Social Unrest

New York Times | MIchael Wines | Posted 04.04.2009 | World


BEIJING -- China's national Legislature begins its tightly scripted annual meeting on Thursday with an agenda dominated by the ruling Communist Party'...

Economist: China's Economy Like A Castrated Bull

Economist | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business


THE beast which gives its name to the Chinese new year that begins on January 26th is meant to symbolise prosperity through fortitude and hard work, o...

Chinese Property Hunters To Raid US

Financial Times | Posted 01.07.2009 | World


Chinese bargain hunters are preparing to descend on American cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, where homeowners have suffered some of the ...

Chinese Consumers: On Rocky Shoals but Not Shipwrecked

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business


Tom Doctoroff

This is the first time in history in which a Chinese middle class of broad scale (125-150 million people) has confronted a global economic shock, begg...

Wake up, Silicon Valley! Chinese Lessons for American Entrepreneurs

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business


Rebecca Fannin

For energy, motivation and raw talent, American entrepreneurs cannot compare to their Chinese counterparts. No wonder investors from the U.S. are looking for the next Steve Jobs in the Middle Kingdom.