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Time to end China’s one-child policy urgently: government advisers warn of...
Government advisers have strengthened calls for China to further ease its stringent one-child policy urgently, ahead of a meeting this month during which the Communist Party’s decision-making body will...
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Gauging the strength of Chinese innovation | McKinsey & Company
The events of 2015 have shown that China is passing through a challenging transition: the labor-force expansion and surging investment that propelled three decades of growth are now weakening. This is...
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What Will the Two-Child Policy Mean for China’s Property Market? – China Real...
China’s latest move to scrap its one-child policy buoyed property developer stocks Friday on hopes it could provide a boost to housing demand. All Chinese couples will be allowed to have two children,...
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Selective Equality? China Retirement Age Plan Sparks Backlash Among Women –...
China’s policy makers have long accepted the need for workers to delay retirement to ease social and fiscal pressures from a rapidly aging population. Few, however, could agree on how to do it. This...
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Aging population could shrink workforce by 10% in...
The graying of the population could shrink the number of working-age adults by more than 10 percent in China by 2040, a report from the World Bank said on Wednesday. It means a net loss of 90 million...
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Home on the Range, Chinese Style – China Real Time Report – WSJ
It’s a small step in the right direction, driven more by necessity than enlightened policy. That’s the view from economists on China’s move this year to put forward a range for its economic growth...
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China cuts more red-tape – Xinhua | English.news.cn
I wish the UK government would follow this excellent lead. “The State Council, China’s cabinet, has decided to abolish another 13 items of administrative approval to reduce intervention in the economy....
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China expects to lay off 1.8 million workers in coal, steel sectors | Reuters
China said on Monday it expects to lay off 1.8 million workers in the coal and steel industries, or about 15 percent of the workforce, as part of efforts to reduce industrial overcapacity, but no...
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Foxconn replaces ‘60,000 factory workers with robots’– BBC News
If manufacturers like Foxconn and high street companies like McDonald’s and, no doubt soon, offices too start replacing humans with robots, where will it all end? Where will all the ‘surplus’ people...
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The return of the Xia | The Economist
CHINA’S leaders are immensely proud of their country’s ancient origins. President Xi Jinping peppers his speeches with references to China’s “5,000 years of history”. The problem is that archaeological...
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