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...With his predecessor Yi Huiman having been recently dismissed after failing to halt a long-running and embarrassing stock rout, Wu’s more forceful approach — including a crackdown on quant funds whose “abnormal...
...Wu, who was previously executive vice-mayor of the city of Shanghai, was tipped early last year to replace Yi....
...In a terse statement, the government said the party’s top leadership body, the central committee, was appointing Wu Qing, a veteran banker, as CSRC party secretary and chair to replace Yi, state news agency...
...Additional reporting by Sun Yu in Beijing, Kathrin Hille in Taipei and Edward White in Seoul...
...“China dominating the display sector will undermine US chip strategy because it gives Beijing such leverage over Seoul,” said Yi....
...Chen pointed to how Wu Yi, a former politburo member who was labelled the “Iron Lady of China”, faced questions, such as why she was single, that male politicians were never asked....
...Li urged the officials in attendance, including vice-premiers Liu He and Han Zheng and central bank governor Yi Gang, to help companies resume production....
...Li was the second cabinet minister to be ousted this year, after Qin Gang, Xi’s former foreign minister, was replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi in July following a month-long absence from public commitments...
...Hou Yu-ih, running for the opposition Kuomintang, has implied that a victory by Lai, the frontrunner, would drag Taiwan into a war with China....
...in Ukraine has converted us into a geopolitical power, not just an economic one,” Borrell told reporters in Beijing on Saturday at the end of the visit, during which he met China’s foreign minister Wang Yi...
...Tan Yifei, founder of Jince Frontier, a Beijing-based consultancy, said Yi’s reappointment seemed to be “transitional” to ensure policy consistency....
...“Abundant labour has been the fuel that has driven China’s rapid growth for more than four decades,” said Yi, “and now China is flying at high speed without enough fuel.”...
...Kang Yi, director of the NBS, said the number of women of childbearing age, defined as between 15 and 49, also fell by more than 4mn in 2022....
...“Wang Yi in his statement did not mention the phrase ‘no-limits’ partner,” said Yu Jie, senior research fellow at UK think-tank Chatham House....
...Fiction films, says Yu, offer the chance to “say things more indirectly”....
...Ren Yi, an influential Chinese blogger who uses the pen name Chairman Rabbit, has noted that the government was increasingly concerned with “the broader socio-economic impacts of high housing prices”....
...Among other potential appointments expected to be announced at next month’s legislative meeting, Wu Qing, the Shanghai vice-mayor who supervises the financial and business affairs of China’s financial hub...
...“Generally speaking, positive results have been achieved in effectively coordinating the Covid-19 prevention and control and the economic and social development in 2022,” said Kang Yi, head of China’s National...
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken is trying to meet Wang Yi, China’s top foreign policy official, at a security conference in Munich on Saturday....
...In China, Zhu Yi, a 30-year-old tech blogger, is emblematic of the new generation of car buyers whose purchasing decisions are based as much around processing power as horsepower....
...But Wu’s suggestions that Ali Cloud’s 50 per cent year-on-year growth rate was sustainable proved overly optimistic....
...“A surprisingly large number of white-collar workers count on near-expiry food to make ends meet,” said Zhang Yi, chief researcher at iiMedia, a Guangzhou-based consultancy....
...Ren Yi, an influential blogger who writes under the moniker Chairman Rabbit, wrote that the extreme sentiments expressed by Hu and others were “completely unreliable”....
...But like premier Li Keqiang in his all-hands-on-deck comments about the economy at the end of May, Yi mentioned few specific measures....
...Li and Yi Gang, the central bank governor, deepened local officials’ malaise when they implied that there was relatively little that the government was willing or able to do to help them, even though the...
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