After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure...
On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was off to a good start in 2024, with reported 5.3% year-on-year GDP growth in the first quarter of the year. The better-than-expected...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
As Xi Jinping’s corruption crackdown continues apace, the latest high-profile target is Wang...
In his keynote address at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese Premier Li...
Following Premier Li Keqiang’s economic report at the Two Sessions meeting, Song Li, an...
To open China’s annual “Two Sessions” on Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang delivered...
At CNN World, professor of government Minxin Pei discusses China’s economic outlook and...
Early Monday, Xinhua reported that the GDP for the second quarter had slowed to 7.5%, as many economists had expected: CHINA'S Q2 GDP GROWTH EASES TO 7.5 PCT— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) July 15, 2013 Reuters earlier...
Premier Wen Jiabao, who will give up his post to Li Keqiang during the current National People’s Congress session, has delivered his final work report to congress delegates. In the speech, he set economic goals for China...
As China’s economic growth dropped to a three-year low of 7.6%, Premier Wen Jiabao promised on Tuesday to launch new plans to prop up the job market. From Joe McDonald at the Associated Press: Premier Wen Jiabao said Tuesday...
In an extract from his new book, The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Orlik examines “the political and technical challenges facing statisticians measuring the size and growth rate of the world’s second largest...
China has been ranked as the emerging Asian economy most likely to maintain steady growth for the next five years. From Bloomberg: China scored 76.2 percent in a ranking of 16 areas including economic competition, education...
Investment banks such as Goldman Sachs are lowering their projected growth for the Chinese economy given the recent monetary tightening policies enacted by the Chinese government in an attempt to curb inflation. From Bloomberg...
The Asian Development Bank has released its annual study of Asian economies for the past year. In it, the ADB reassessed its economic forecast for China and predicts China’s GDP will grow by 9.6% in 2010 . From China...
With an abundance of speculation on China’s future economic growth, sometimes it’s hard to process it all. A new column by Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang tries to explain six upcoming trends of the Chinese economy as a...
The Chinese government has set a target of 4% inflation for this year. Statistics from February, though, reveal that inflation has already exceeded this target. From Bloomberg News: Consumer prices rose at an annual 4.9 percent...
China may have fared better economically than previously thought, as its National Bureau of Statistics revised 2009 growth figures. From the Wall Street Journal: The bureau said China’s nominal GDP, evaluated at current...
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