The writer is a finance professor at Peking University and a senior fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy China reported the largest monthly trade surplus in its history last Friday …
Monthly Archives For January 2022
Local start-up harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to tackle monumental task of financial translation
Targeting a major pain point in financial publishing, DeepTranslate’s translation service is now used by major financial institutions in Hong Kong, including HSBC, Guotai Junan and Ernst & Young.
China GDP growth for 2021 beats expectations, narrowing gap with US, but population crisis, virus cloud economic outlook
China’s economy grew by 8.1 per cent last year, beating most expectations. But a slowdown in the fourth quarter has pointed to trouble ahead amid a worsening demographic picture, slowing property …
Beijing eyes international mail in probe of first omicron case
Health officials in Beijing say that the city’s first case of the omicron variant may have come from international mail. Beijing announced the case had been detected on Saturday after the infected …
China stops sales of tickets to Beijing Winter Olympics due to COVID-19
China will no longer sell tickets for the Beijing Winter Olympics to the general public as the Chinese capital on Saturday reported its first local case of the omicron variant of COVID-19, just weeks …
Investors in Shenzhen International Holdings (HKG:152) have unfortunately lost 31% over the last three years
Shenzhen International Holdings Limited (HKG:152) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 10% in the last month. But that doesn’t help the fact that the three year return is less …
Canadian athletes could be affected by Beijing’s higher COVID-19 testing threshold
CBC Sports has learned the Beijing Olympic Committee is using a higher testing threshold for detecting positive COVID-19 cases, making it more challenging for Canadian athletes to produce a negative …
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘nobody cares’ about Uyghur genocide in China
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya said during a recent podcast episode that “nobody cares” about the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in China. The abuse of Uyghurs and members …
China launches Long March 2D with Shiyan-13 to start busy year
China successfully kicked off 2022 with the launch of the classified Shiyan-13 payload from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) aboard a Chang Zheng 2D (internationally called the Long March 2D …
US exporters sent over 13M pounds of lobster to China in 2021
Despite the pandemic making exportation more difficult, Chinese demand for American lobster grew by about 6 percent from 2020 to 2021.
FirstFT: China’s GDP growth slows
China’s gross domestic product grew at its slowest pace in 18 months in the fourth quarter as the government grappled with a slowdown in the crucially important property sector and tried to eradicate …
Latest Covid-19 developments from around the world
The coronavirus has killed at least 5,537,051 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources on Monday. The United States has …
Births in China drop for fifth-straight year
China announced on Monday that its birth rate has decreased for the fifth year in a row.China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported 10.6 million babies were born last year, marking a 12 percent …
