China Economic Review

Feature story: Investment

Sense and sustainability

As a number of offshore financial centers grapple with dire fiscal problems, how can jurisdictions ensure their economic survival? >>more...

: Chinalco to sign for $1.35b stake in Rio Tinto mine; China's stocks post gains, continue rally; ICBC will raise up to $6.6b through rights offering; China allows IMF to publish full report for the first time; NSSF to target private equity investments abroad; US to pressure China on market access; Industrial mishaps plague Nanjing and Jilin

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Blog: Transport & Logistics

Cheap flights to Tokyo and more competition in Beijing

MALCOLM MOORE: Foreign airlines are going to be given more flight slots at Beijing Capital, and Spring Airlines undercuts its rivals >>more...

The Numbers: Banking & Finance

23%: Percentage of bank loans made to local governments which may go bad

Source: Bloomberg. >>more...

Jennifer Kung, international division marketing manager of Huashan Hospital Pudong, on China's healthcare system:
"Have you been to a Chinese hospital? You will see people lining up from 5am >>more...

The Buzz: Economics & Trade

People's Bank quotes Milton Friedman

People's Bank of China Vice Governor Hu Xiaolian, quoting Milton Friedman:
"Inflation is a disease, a dangerous and sometimes fatal disease, a disease that if not checked in time can destroy >>more...

The Numbers: Business Practice

US$446.82 mln: Planned investment per day by the Ministry of Railways in the second half of 2010

Source: 163 Money. >>more...

Blog: Manufacturing

China's steel mills dodge another bullet

MALCOLM MOORE: Every time the Chinese government tries to clamp down on the steel sector, the mills manage to wriggle out >>more...

Blog: Health Care

Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund set to buy Parkway

MALCOLM MOORE: Singaporean health care company Parkway is about to be sold, but is its business model a winner? >>more...

Blog: Markets

Capitalist Roader and Red Dragon funds: Nap

CER EDITORS: Capitalist Roader Fund
This week a collective torpor settled over Shanghai as the pipin' hot peak of summer (the 'San Fu" season) leveled productivity and enforced apathy toward all human endeavors >>more...