Labor Protests Multiply as Economy Slows
Labor unrest has increased throughout China as the economy continues to grow at its slowest rate...
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With Protests on the Rise, State Sector Facing Layoffs
Amid an economic downturn and a plan to streamline the state-owned sector, the Chinese government...
China Declares ‘War Against Pollution’
While delivering his government work report yesterday at the opening of the annual National...
Why Is China Importing So Much Iron?
Quartz's Gwynn Guilford reports that China's year-on-year imports surged to 10.9% in July at $168 billion and all because of iron ore imports, speculated to serve as collateral for bank loans: But wait—what exactly was...
Abandoned Steel Mills Threaten Public Health
Falling prices, weak demand and mounting debt in China’s steel industry have led to a series of closures and mergers in recent years, leaving many mills abandoned. At China Dialogue, Gao Shengke reports that health risks...
SOEs, Rule of Law Among Hurdles for Clean Air Push
Beijing’s acting mayor has announced an array of new measures to combat air pollution in the city, following heavy smog that seeped hundreds of points off the scale this month. From Xinhua: The capital will take 180,000...
CDT Money: Time to Call the Bottom?
A breeze of cautious optimism wafted into the Chinese economy this week despite a seventh consecutive quarter of slowing GDP growth, as better-than-expected September data signaled that the world’s second largest economy...
Australia's China Challenge
Since overtaking Japan in 2009, China has been Australia’s largest export market, outweighing South Korea, India, the US and UK (in third through sixth places) combined. While growing reliance on this trade is a source of...
"Quality is Weightier than Mount Tai"; Reporters Allege Shady Building Practices
China Media Project translates a bold open letter from three journalists to the government and people of Mianyang, a city near the epicentre of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Although shoddy construction magnified the impact of...
Japanese, S. Korean Companies Team Up To Take On Chinese Rivals
Although the rivalry between Japanese and South Korean companies has intensified, they are increasingly cooperating in ventures abroad to prevent Chinese competitors from getting too far ahead. Read the article in Asahi here:...
Blood on the Hands at a Bleeding Steel Mill
From Caijing Magazine: Time seems to stand still in Tonghua, a gritty factory city in an isolated corner of Jilin Province, near the Chinese-North Korean border. Bypassed by highways, an antiquated railway is the city’s...
Bowing to Protests, China Halts Sale of Steel Mill
Following protests in which workers took a government official hostage, managers of a steel plant in Henan have canceled plans to privatize. From the New York Times: The protests, in Henan Province in central China, were the...
Steel Workers In China Protest Plant Purchase
From AP: Hundreds of steel workers in central China trapped a government official in their factory’s office compound for four days, angry at the official’s role in the state-run plant’s privatization, the local...
China Steel Body under Fire, Govt Support Seen Waning
Reuters reports: The China Iron and Steel Association, which is leading annual iron ore price talks, has sought this year to impose its will on an industry it accuses of undermining its demand for a bigger price cut. Its calls...
Details of Steel Executive’s Death Emerge
From Caijing.com.cn: The beating death of a steel company executive during a riot at state-owned Tonghua Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. on July 24 in Jilin Province has been widely blamed on workers protesting a company...
Rust-Belt Rumblings
After irate workers beat a company manager to death in riots at a steel plant in Tonghua, Jilin, a planned merger for the firm has been scrapped. From Straits Times: Last Friday, privately-owned firm Jianlong Heavy Machinery was...
One Killed in China Steel Riot
The BBC reports that workers beat a manager to death during the riot at a steel plant in Tonghua: About 100 people were hurt in violence in the north-eastern city of Tonghua after workers heard that Jianlong Steel would buy a...
Syed Fazl-e-Haider: China Eyes Pakistan Steel Sector
Syed Fazl-e-Haider reports from Quetta, Pakistan for the Asia Times: China Metallurgical Construction Corporation (MCC), which already runs a copper mine in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, is showing renewed interest in...
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