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...More long-dated bonds are expected to be issued in subsequent years to strengthen key areas such as food security, energy and the manufacturing supply chain, premier Li Qiang said this year....
...He reports to Li Qiang, China’s premier, the formal head of the CFC and the de facto top official responsible for China’s economy and financial affairs, according to official statements....
...Working groups from the central bank, finance ministry and securities watchdog are involved in the debt resolution effort in those provinces and will report to Premier Li Qiang, two people familiar with...
...Additional reporting by Edward White in Seoul, Joe Leahy and Sun Yu in Shanghai and Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong...
...Despite Premier Li Qiang’s description of the latest programme as an “important measure” to resuscitate the country’s sinking economy, economists are more sceptical....
...Markets have since been steadied by Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s promise of “forceful” state support to halt the sell-off....
...In Germany and France this week, Li Qiang went on a charm offensive with government officials and business leaders, pledging to focus on the fight against climate change and announcing a debt relief deal...
...First, Premier Li Qiang called for “more forceful and effective measures to stabilise the market and boost confidence”, as my colleagues Hudson Lockett and Cheng Leng reported from Hong Kong....
...Policymakers led by Li Qiang, who took office in March, have yet to announce a comprehensive stimulus plan....
...China’s number two official, Premier Li Qiang, also met tech executives from TikTok owner ByteDance, food delivery group Meituan and Ma’s Alibaba Cloud, and assured them the government would normalise regulations...
...Premier Li Qiang, Xi’s new number two, signalled at China’s rubber-stamp parliament last month that the government would relax a crackdown on business that has wiped billions of dollars from property developers...
...The Chinese leader is expected to elevate Li Qiang, the former Shanghai party chief whom Xi worked with as governor of Zhejiang province in the 2000s, to premier and head of China’s State Council, or cabinet...
...Reporting by Joe Leahy, Ryan McMorrow, Sun Yu and Nian Liu in Beijing, Cheng Leng in Hong Kong and Kathrin Hille in Taipei...
...Additional reporting by Sun Yu in Beijing...
...On Saturday, the NPC confirmed Xi’s appointment of a close ally, Li Qiang, the former Shanghai party boss, as the president’s number two....
...Additional reporting by Kaye Wiggins and Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong and Sun Yu and Nian Liu in Beijing...
...Li is set to be replaced in a government reshuffle this week by Li Qiang, a close ally of President Xi Jinping....
...Wang Qiang, the owner of an Evergrande contractor in Zhengzhou, capital of central Henan province, said small companies like his had no choice but to accept commercial paper from large developers....
...“We have given up hope of divesting through IPOs given the regulatory tightening,” said Wang Zhi, an investment manager at a GGF based in Zhejiang province....
...“Party control permeates every aspect of life,” says Wu Qiang, a former professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and prominent party critic....
...Smart reads Green with envy Ng Yu Zhi, who controls Envy Asset Management and Envy Global Trading, was a star of the Singaporean trading scene....
...Li Zhi, owner of a cooking school in the south-western city of Zigong, said enrolment for subsidised courses more than doubled this year to more than 1,000 from 2019....
...Yu Zhi, an analyst at consultancy Yanglee, said: “We are seeing the bursting of a bubble that has been under pressure for many years.”...
...“Our direction in Taiwan is try not to use Made in China,” says Lee Chen-yu, director, Taipei Smart City Project Management Office....
...If the coronavirus outbreak keeps Wang Zhi’s shoe factory closed for much longer, the Chinese entrepreneur reckons he will default on a Rmb5m ($718,000) loan coming due in June....
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