Municipal Social Credit Regulations in the Works
Recent media coverage on pilot testing of China’s social credit system, in which citizens’...
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Fallen Senior Official Liu Tienan Gets Life in Prison
Former deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and head of the...
China: Goldmine or Minefield for Foreign Tech Firms?
Despite the Chinese state’s vigorous control of Internet use within its borders, its large...
Congrats China, You’re Upper-Middle-Income!
Last Wednesday, an official from the National Development and Reform Commission laid out...
China Unveils Plans for Streamlined Government
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...
Censorship Vault: Throwing Beggars
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Parody: “Rising Gas Prices Gladly Welcomed by Consumers”
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...
Ian Johnson: China Extends Buy-Local Push
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...
China Looking at Boosting Private Role in Industry
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....
China Expects to Fund 90 Pct of Renewables Target
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...
China Raises High-speed Railway Hopes – Mure Dickie
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, […]
China Pays To Save Energy – Asia Times Online
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 […]
Ten Reasons Why The Inflation is Bearable – Lian Yue
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...
New Rules But No Brakes for China’s Economy – Li Qiyan and Zhang Huanyu
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 […]
Electricity Industry Employee Stock Holders Get Detailed Rules – Li Qiyan
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 […]
Property Firms Embrace Smaller Chinese Cities – Bloomberg News
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 […]
China Loosens Grip on Corporate Bonds – Jamil Anderlini
From Financial Times: China’s anaemic corporate bond market is set to expand exponentially after the government loosened its grip on the sector on Wednesday by introducing a new regulatory regime. Corporate bonds are virtually non-existent in China, mostly because they are regulated by the state’s conservative and anachronistic central planning agency, the National Development and […]
Former Chinese environment minister rises from ashes – various
The English-language wires all have pieces today on the political resurrection of Xie Zhenhua (ËߣÊåØÂçé), the former head of the State Environmental Protection Administration, who resigned in 2005 after the Songhua River beneze pollution debacle. From AP via Taipei Times: Xie…has been appointed vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s most powerful […]
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