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FT analysis of Communist party report shows ‘development’ or growth as most popular terms
...According to a 2015 speech by NDRC official Xu Lin, the government sought research from the OECD, the Asian Development Bank and “the famous American consulting firm McKinsey”, so as to “absorb a wide range...
...The chairs of some state banks, such as Liao Lin at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Gu Shu from Agricultural Bank of China and Cai Xiliang from China Life Insurance, now also outrank Pan in the...
...Qin’s wife Lin Yan accompanied him to the US, where he was posted in 2021 as ambassador. He left the post this year after being appointed foreign minister....
...Penny Lin, a garment factory manager in Zhejiang, said it doubled or tripled the production of clothes ordered by Shein and sent the remaining product to Temu or domestic platforms such as Alibaba’s 1688...
...“We have a child with a high fever but all the pharmacies are out of ibuprofen,” said a Beijing resident surnamed Lin. “It came too fast, we didn’t have time to prepare.”...
Cheap, remote and beautiful city attracts thousands of young people and Gen X-ers escaping economic treadmill
...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....
...Additional reporting by Sun Yu in Beijing...
...Underlining the immediacy of this risk is this week’s report of steep commercial property related earnings declines at a US, a Japanese and a Swiss bank....
...Lin Ying-yu, a professor of strategic studies at Tamkang University, said China would “show muscle” in the event of a Lai victory, but added that Beijing was unlikely to drastically escalate military manoeuvres...
...“Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas / Cos’ turkeys just wanna hav fun/ Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked / An every turkey has a Mum. // Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas, / Don’t eat it, keep it alive...
Primary schools become old people’s homes and factories struggle to find staff as population ages
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...“China’s activity indicators missed expectations by a wide margin even with a favorable base,” Xiangrong Yu, chief China economist at Citi, wrote in a note....
...Data visualisation by Andy Lin...
President expected to unveil sweeping changes to extend Communist party’s grip over finance and other sectors
...Additional reporting by Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...Xiangrong Yu, greater China chief economist at Citi, suggested that Beijing was concerned about “sentiment damage in case of another miss”. The bank forecasts growth of 5.7 per cent this year....
...policy directives, Beijing needs to set explicit criteria for reopening based on vaccination coverage and the availability of intensive care units for treating an inevitable exit wave of cases, according to Yu...
...Additional reporting by Tom Mitchell in Singapore, Andy Lin in Taipei and William Langley in Hong Kong...
...Additional reporting by Tom Mitchell in Singapore and Andy Lin in Taipei...
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