Minitrue: Delete Lecture on Economic Downturn
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LatestLiaoning Governor Confirms Reports of Falsified Data
The governor of Liaoning Province acknowledged this week that his government had inflated economic...
Prerequisites for Escaping the Middle Income Trap
China will surpass middle income status (defined by the World Bank as having a per capita gross...
Slowing Economy, Rising Inequality
Recent government statistics have shown that, in 2015, China’s economy grew at the slowest...
Corruption, Lies, and Statistics
As Xi Jinping’s corruption crackdown continues apace, the latest high-profile target is Wang...
What to Expect at China’s Fifth Plenum
The 18th Communist Party Central Committee will hold its fifth plenary session in Beijing next...
Why China is So Worried About Labor Unrest
In Maclean’s Jason Kirby writes about a surge of labor unrest that is quickly becoming a...
Visualizing China’s Strike Activity
On his Dart-Throwing Chimp blog, political scientist Jay Ulfelder presents a series of graphs...
China Aims Away from GDP, Medal & Arrest Targets
While many regions in China have lowered GDP targets amid the “new normal” of slower...
Is China About to Become The World’s Largest Economy?
According to an updated report from the World Bank’s International Comparison Program, China...
Death, Taxes, and 7.5% G.D.P. Growth
Following Premier Li Keqiang’s economic report at the Two Sessions meeting, Song Li, an...
The End of ‘GDP Worship’ in China?
To open China’s annual “Two Sessions” on Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang delivered...
Can China Reform the Economy and Create Jobs?
After the government reported “record” levels of urban job creation in 2013 despite...
Economy Posts 7.7% Growth Rate in 2013
China’s economy grew by 7.7 percent for both the fourth quarter and the full year, narrowly...
Nate Silver on Shady Economic Data
China Real Time’s Henry Williams talks to statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight about...
Beijing Opens Infrastructure to Foreign Investment
With GDP growth slowing to 7.5% in the second quarter, Beijing has invited foreign investors to bid on $55 billion worth of urban infrastructure projects. Reuters reports: The projects include rail transport, roads, rail transit...
How High is China’s Official Debt?
With the news that China’s State Council ordered a national audit of all government debt, The Wall Street Journal’s Richard Silk collated research estimates about where the official figure is today: China has one big...
CDT Money: Likonomics and China’s Push for Reform
China watchers spent the week digesting the latest official quarterly GDP data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, which showed year-over-year growth slowing to 7.5% in the second quarter. Measured by international...
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