China economy

Be Monkey King? Young Chinese find work in theme parks’ role-playing boom

Yao Fancheng plays ancient Chinese poet Su Shi at the China Folk Culture Village in Shenzhen. He makes sure to draw from verses familiar to people of different generations to “ensure that everybody can participate”.

After years of unfinished homes, China is changing its decades-old presale model

While reducing the risk of unfinished homes could help repair battered buyer confidence, the effectiveness of the new policies should not be judged by whether they immediately generate more home sales.

China’s exports surge as demand for high-tech, AI help prop up economic growth

Imports soared 28.2 per cent, compared with a 27.5 per cent year-on-year increase in July and a forecast for a 30 per cent rise.

China to pump $68b into state banks, insurers in capital-boosting push

China’s finance ministry will inject 57 billion yuan (S$10 billion) into three state-owned insurers.

Chinese guitar capital’s stairway to export heaven

Zheng’an as a whole manufactures 2.5 million guitars a year.

Chinese factory slump eases, but weak services signal uneven recovery

China’s official manufacturing PMI picked up to 49.8 from 49.2 in July, remaining below the 50-mark separating growth from contraction.

Luxury should embrace China’s secondhand boom

Cartier and Yves Saint Laurent stores in Haikou, China.

Field notes from Guiyang

Inside Evergrande’s unfinished fairytale ‘castle’ and the long shadow of China’s property boom gone bust

An unfinished castle-style building standing at a deserted Evergrande Group resort development in Guiyang, Guizhou province.

China’s AI ambitions hum in Guizhou’s hills as data centres transform the rural west

Huawei has built a European-themed data centre in south-western China’s Guizhou province.

The geese stop flying: Why some Asian nations can’t take off

A small garment factory in China. Despite rising wages, the country continues to have a large presence in the sector.

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