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....
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleIan 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...
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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...
View ArticleCensorship Vault: Throwing Beggars
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org...
View ArticleChina 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,...
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Congrats China, You’re Upper-Middle-Income!
Last Wednesday, an official from the National Development and Reform Commission laid out China’s plans to be among the World Bank’s high-income ranked economies by 2020, noting that currently, China is...
View ArticleChina: Goldmine or Minefield for Foreign Tech Firms?
Despite the Chinese state’s vigorous control of Internet use within its borders, its large Internet market has been highly attractive to foreign companies. San Francisco-based CloudFlare—which has been...
View ArticleFallen Senior Official Liu Tienan Gets Life in Prison
Former deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and head of the National Energy Administration Liu Tienan has been sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges. An...
View ArticleMunicipal Social Credit Regulations in the Works
Recent media coverage on pilot testing of China’s social credit system, in which citizens’ financial, educational, web browsing, and other personal data are drawn upon to calculate credit scores, has...
View ArticleCaixin Removed From Cyberspace Administration of China’s “Whitelist”
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...
View ArticleNetizen Voices: “Given the Choice Between Handing Out Cash Payments or...
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....
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