#Economy of China

Author: Li Yuan / Source: New York Times Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times Chen Tianyong, a Chinese real estate developer in Shanghai, boarded a flight to Malta last month with no plans to return anytime soon. After landing, Mr. Chen, a former judge and lawyer, shared on social media a

Author: Matt Davis / Source: Big Think China’s economy is growing at 8% per year, but its citizens aren’t getting any happier. New research from MIT analyzed 33 million posts from Sina Weibo (the Chinese version of Twitter) and compared their expressed happiness with local pollution levels.

Author: Scotty Hendricks / Source: Big Think China has undergone massive economic reforms over the last few decades while remaining officially communist. The state still has tremendous power over the economy, but private enterprise and markets dominate daily life. The question of if the

Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, China's working age population is clearly defined as those aged 16 to 50 years old for females (55 for "white collar" females) and 16 to 60 years old for males.  China mandates retirement at these outer age limits.  Perhaps of some interest should be

Authored by Valentin Schmid via The Epoch Times, Seven was the line in the sand. But the Chinese yuan never crossed that line vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar. It only crept up to 6.96 yuan per dollar on Dec. 16, 2016, before starting an impressive comeback, down to 6.5 in the middle of this year. Last