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...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...
...Xu is also country manager for WPP China. WPP declined to comment. An officer at the local Shanghai police station which oversees the area of GroupM’s offices declined to comment....
...Xu applied for a loan in August but was turned down over insufficient collateral. Demand for credit is also weak....
...“A lot of people have chosen to become uninsured,” said Xu Yucai, a former health official in the north-western Shaanxi province....
...“After all boss Xu is still behind bars,” he says. With additional reporting by Cheng Leng in Hong Kong, Ryan McMorrow in Beijing and Sun Yu in New York...
...“If we put all of this together, now the Chinese economy is in deep trouble,” Xu says....
...Everyone is scared,” Xu said. Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett and Cheng Leng in Hong Kong...
...They want to avoid risks,” said Sally Xu, manager of government affairs at the British Chambers of Commerce in China....
...“All they wanted was to ease the financial pressure from buying expensive cancer drugs [for Xu’s mother], nothing else.”...
...“The top priority of China’s health insurance reform is to cut costs even though doing so may lead to a reduction in benefits and anger the public,” said Xu Yucai, a former deputy director of the Shanyang...
...Xu said three hospitals in each province would collect samples from at least 25 Covid patients a week, but it remains unclear if the system has been put in place....
...“[Xi’s initiatives] show China’s clearest intention yet to update the rules of global governance that were written by the collective west in the aftermath of world war two,” says Yu Jie, senior research...
...“China won’t benefit from the Russia-Ukraine war,” Xu said. “The conflict has disrupted global supply chains on which the Chinese economy depends....
...Xu Mingfei, Xi’an’s deputy mayor, said this week that hospitals could no longer reject patients needing emergency attention....
...“If my mother’s health situation deteriorates because of this,” adds Xu, “I am going to fight Evergrande every day.”...
...“It’s 27 dragons ruling one patch,” said Xu Ke, director of the internet law research centre at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing....
...“The government may have trouble cracking down on monopolies when dominant technology companies are staffed with officials who are friends with, or former colleagues of, regulators,” said Liu Xu, a researcher...
...Chair Eric Xu said that survival in spite of US pressure was Huawei’s overriding priority....
...Xu Hongjie, another Yiwu factory owner who also made Trump banners for the 2016 campaign, said his profits are thinning....
...Spotlight Since founding Shein in 2008, Chris Xu has made the company a global Gen Z staple known for selling cheap, on-trend clothing online....
...Back in Wuhan, 28-year-old Xu Zhuo is still worried. Despite taking a May Day trip with her mother every year for the past decade, she decided to scrap this year’s outing....
...“Now they said I can go but will have to let them know [so I can be taken to the facility],” Ms Xu said....
...Mr Yu was tried in secret last month, without representation from a lawyer of his choice, according to his wife Xu Yan. His sentence has not been announced....
...“Raising a child takes so much time and energy,” said Mary Xu, a Shanghai-based magazine editor who has a three-year-old daughter. “I have had enough.” Additional reporting by Xinning Liu in Beijing...
...“The US is still way ahead of us in artificial intelligence in terms of research,” said Mr Xu at Ping An Tech....
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