Over the past month, in response to disappointing economic data, various Chinese government agencies have announced measures intended to stimulate household spending and bolster consumer confidence. China’s economy continues to...
One of China’s premier investigative reporting outlets, Caixin, has been removed from the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) latest media “whitelist.” The whitelist governs how news is shared across the Chinese internet:...
Recent media coverage on pilot testing of China’s social credit system, in which citizens’...
Former deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and head of the...
Despite the Chinese state’s vigorous control of Internet use within its borders, its large...
Last Wednesday, an official from the National Development and Reform Commission laid out...
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years, the new plan aims...
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As China raised retail gas prices on April 7th for the second time this year, netizens mocked the NDRC (China’s National Development and Reform Commission) in this parody of an image from a CCTV broadcast. (Translated by...
From the Wall Street Journal: Amid a series of trade disputes simmering in the background, China is pushing ahead with efforts to ensure that its gargantuan stimulus package benefits domestic companies. A recent directive issued...
AP reports: The government will “speed up research into encouraging private investment” in oil, power generation, telecommunications and other fields, the National Development and Reform Commission statement said....
From Reuters: China expected local capital to fund 90 percent of the infrastructure and other investment needed to meet its goal to get 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, a senior official said. Gao...
From Financial Times: The Chinese government appears to have cleared the way for the construction of a high-speed railway between Beijing and Shanghai, raising hopes that one of the world’s biggest infrastructure projects may soon be on track after years of delay. In a one-sentence notice posted on its website, China’s main economic planning agency, […]
From Asia Times Online: China’s government plans to pour billions of dollars into special projects to help meet the country’s energy-saving targets. Local officials are also about to come under increased pressure to toe the government line to meet the targets, otherwise their political futures could be in jeopardy. A top official from the National […]
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) recently attempted to downplay worries over increases in food prices by arguing that rises in income were more than enough to compensate. Writing on his personal...
From Caijing.com.cn: The world has been watching this year as statistic after statistic riveted attention on a red-hot economy in China that some think may be close to burning out of control. Now attention is shifting to decisions for handling the situation issued by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) , which directs and […]
Regulations for staff members of electricity companies will be announced by the central government at the end of June following four years of discussions and delays. From Caijing.com.cn: Employees of state-owned grid companies will soon be banned from further investing into power generation companies as a part of China’s new rules meant to create fair […]
From International Herald Tribune: Property prices in Shanghai , Beijing and Guangzhou are too high and developers should focus on the smaller Chinese cities as they grow richer, some real estate executives believe. “First-tier cities are getting too expensive,” Justin Chiu, executive director at Cheung Kong , Hong Kong’s biggest developer, said in an interview […]
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