RSHP have won the design competition of the Qianhai Financial Holdings Headquarter Tower, a mixed-use commercial building in the center of the Qianhai district …
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China is logically cracking down on its private tutoring sector, but why is Beijing taming it now?
An infamous slogan from a private education institution in China targeting toddlers states, “you can train your kid with us here, or we train his competitors”. It is lines like this that convince …
China administers more than 1B COVID-19 vaccine doses
Health officials in China said they have administrated more than 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines. The Chinese National Health Commission said in a statement Sunday that as of the day prior it has …
Why is cryptocurrency crashing? Why Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are down amid China crackdown
Bitcoin had reached around $41,000 (£29,500) on Tuesday, but started steadily falling throughout the week, before tumbling in the early hours of Monday …
China’s Annual 618 Shopping Event Shows Consumers Are Back
China just concluded its mid-year e-commerce shopping festival known as 618 (June 18). It’s the second-largest e-commerce shopping day in China—second only to Single’s Day (November 11)—and possibly …
China Trucking Startup Said to Raise $1.6 Billion in U.S. IPO
Full Truck Alliance Co., an Uber-like trucking startup, has raised about $1.6 billion after pricing shares in its U.S. initial public offering at the top of a marketed range, according to people with …
China’s Xi congratulates Raisi on election as Iranian president
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent his congratulations on Monday to Ebrahim Raisi on his election as Iran’s president, saying their two countries were “comprehensive strategic partners”, state media …
Will China become the centre of the world economy?
The global economy is shifting away from the US and Europe towards Asia. The FT’s global China editor James Kynge and FT economics commentator Martin Sandbu discuss whether China will dominate global …
AgBank falls in step with China’s cryptocurrency crackdown
Agriculture Bank of China (AgBank), the country’s third largest lender by assets, said on Monday that it was following guidance from the central bank to clamp down on cryptocurrency trading and mining …
China’s most famous liquor fetches nearly $1.4 million at auction
A rare case of China’s fiery national liquor has sold for more than $1 million, more than five times what experts had estimated it would fetch. Sotheby’s announced on Friday that it had sold a…
View from Away: President Biden’s tougher stance on China will make the US more competitive
In this great race of superpowers, the U.S. must take China head-on. Former President Donald Trump began ramping up pressure on the Chinese, and now President Joe Biden is working toward a sweeping …
Bitcoin drops as China intensifies crypto mining crackdown
China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency mining has extended to the southwestern province of Sichuan, according to reports. Bitcoin sank Monday on reports that China has intensified its crackdown on …
China has administered more than 1 billion doses of its Covid-19 vaccines
As of Saturday, 1,010,489,000 doses had been given to people in China, and more than 100 million doses were administered in six days.