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Monthly Archives For January 2018
Mobile technology: Built on speed and convenience
Mintel’s Beauty Retailing China 2017 report found that almost 50% of Chinese beauty consumers aged 20-49 used mobile payment when buying beauty or personal care products in the six months to November 2016. “Mobile payment…
Google looks longingly at China but it won’t get its own way
Ultimately, China doesn’t need Google … the world’s most popular video streaming platform, the market leading mobile operating system, the second most popular app store, as well as other services. In other words, a business…
China’s non-financial investment abroad falls
29.4% year-on-year drop comes amid govt crackdown on speculative overseas deals BEIJING •China last year posted its first decline in non-financial outbound direct investment since it began publishing the data in 2003, as firms backed…
China Banking Regulator Sees Hidden Dangers To Financial Stability
Imperfect internal control mechanisms in financial institutions, high bad debt and shadow banking have impact on the financial system, Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, told the newspaper People’s Daily in an…
Trial of Beijing’s new airport to be held next year: officials
Trial of the Beijing’s new international airport, which is tipped to be the largest in the world after its completion, is likely to start from October 2019, officials said on Thursday. The airport, which is…
As Pax Americana crumbles, Taiwan is in Beijing’s crosshairs
Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have got their imperialist salami slicer working overtime. After their success in gobbling up the South China Sea while four United States presidents were distracted or couldn’t be…
Beijing’s Flexible Property Rules
Wait, isn’t there supposed to be some restriction on Chinese companies buying property offshore? If there is, it doesn’t seem to include Guangzhou R&F Properties Co. and CC Land Holdings Ltd., two of the mainland…
US slips behind China in new global leadership poll
This historic low puts the US’s leadership approval rating on par with China’s and sets a new bar for disapproval … the lowest since Gallup began tracking this measure in 2007. The news isn’t much…
Chinese airlines permit mobile phones in flight mode
Spring Airlines, the country’s largest budget carrier, followed suit Thursday, announcing that it will allow mobile phones to be used in flight mode from next month. China’s restrictions on the use of portable electronic devices…
China economy rebounds in 2017 with better than expected 6.9% growth
The official growth figures released on Thursday are welcome news for Beijing policymakers who are looking to cut debt and pollution in older industries without stunting growth in the world’s second-largest economy. China’s gross domestic…
China tightens rules on insurers to fight local government debt risk
In a notice dated Jan. 8, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) and the Ministry of Finance said that while the purchase of local government bonds is encouraged, insurers must not provide financing to local…
China Unicom Research Institute joins Zigbee Alliance
The Zigbee Alliance has announced that the China Unicom Research Institute, one of China’s three major mobile service carriers, has joined the Alliance at the participant level. Zigbee is adopted by SSUG as the major…