Beijing has traditionally portrayed its five-year plans as a boon not only for China but for the world. The official narrative, echoed by state media, emphasizes that a stable, growing China remains ...

Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized trade partners but ...

Premier Li Qiang said on Wednesday that China's economy will exceed 170 trillion yuan ($23.87 trillion) by 2030, presenting a ...

In his newly translated memoir I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan captures the brutal labor and quiet grace of life at ...

In recent weeks, Western audiences encountered two starkly different portraits of China’s economic model. In his book “Breakneck,” tech analyst Dan Wang argues that China is an “engineering state” ...

IN RECENT years China’s economy has obeyed a three-act dramatic structure, recognisable to any playwright. Growth starts the year brightly, suffers troubling setbacks as spring turns to summer, then ...

During the three years of "zero-COVID" lockdowns, analyst Dan Wang emerged as one of the most astute observers of China's rapidly shifting domestic dynamics. Wang witnessed how the stringent COVID ...

American hopes for political reform in China faded years ago, and now hopes for economic liberalization are fading too.

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The world's big manufacturing economies struggled to fire up in October, business surveys showed on Monday, as weak U.S.