In China's Cities, a Turn From Factories
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The country's labor force is stalling as urban workers, tired of paltry pay and rat-infested apartments, seek higher wages and better conditions in rural areas.
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By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 18--Second of three reports   In China, where weavers and assemblers have cobbled together the fastest-growing major economy on Earth, the government is pushing beyond manufacturing. It wants innovation.
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A Chinese government report has found that nearly 20% of products made in the country are below standard.
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Rather than waiting for the American economy to get worse, companies in Asia are changing how they operate.
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When the local government announced it was going to confiscate their homes and businesses to make room for a new development, residents of this village in southeastern China fought back.
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of
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From the mines of Australia to the forests of Myanmar, China's rapid growth is sucking up resources and pulling the region's economies in its wake.
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SHANGHAI, China -- In the mid-1800s, English textile makers eyed China and drooled over the fortunes to be made if every man in this teeming country added just one more inch to his shirttails.
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The metamorphosis of a Communist Party expatriate to business consultant mirrors China's shift from a closed-door state to a freewheeling money-making society.
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Some five years ago, the central  Chinese city of Wuhan, whose laundry-draped low rises have  steadily given way to modern tower blocks, was well entrenched  in the psyche of domestic property investors, but little known  to the outside world.
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviably poor reputation.
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BEIJING -- They have been called invaders, impractical eggheads, and barbarians intent on destroying the feng shui, the ancient art of harmony and balance. They are tripping over themselves to work in China. And like it or not, they are remaking the face of the country.
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LINFEN, China -- Mining has resumed in the frigid shafts, and long lines of 18-wheelers laden with coal once again clog the twisty mountain roads leading out of Linfen. This grime-covered city, where the packed snow long ago turned black and carbon-colored dust hangs in the air, has reclaimed its...
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Exports from China are shifting from basic goods like textiles, toys and shoes to higher-value industrial goods that compete more directly with products from advanced industrialized countries.
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Child labor is a daily fact of life in China, experts say, and one that the government, preoccupied with economic growth, has traditionally turned a blind eye to.
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In China, a sprawling lakefront is redeveloped with an eye toward the past.
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Factory workers make less in China than in the U.S., and so do CEOs. But the impact on the market remains unclear.