China's stunted services sector starts to stir
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CHENGDU, China  - When Chinese policy makers talk about rebalancing the economy towards consumption from exports and investment, they have people like Liu Yong in mind.
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While developing nations China, Brazil and India grow at break-neck pace with their burgeoning industry and farming, industrialized countries want them
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It may be the factory to the world, but China's consumers aren't exactly splashing out. And credit cards are not widely accepted
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To spur rural economies, China is supporting entrepreneurial ventures with Tibetan herders.
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The powerlessness of Beijing's estimated 65,000 taxi drivers goes to the heart of a complaint that has arisen repeatedly as China's economy moves toward free-market liberalism while its one-party government retains a monopoly on power.
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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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Many big companies have sought to break into the Chinese market, but few of them have been as ardent and unrelenting as Rupert Murdochâs News Corporation.
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Chinese consumers show little sign of reining in their spending, despite the first rise in core interest rates in nine years.
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With growth slowing in China, Europe and Japan, some worry that rapidly escalating prices will trigger a self-reinforcing spiral of falling demand.
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China's gleaming skyscrapers and economic progress hide the realities of political oppression. Take the case of Chen Guangcheng
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Facing foreign competition in 2007, China's banks are expanding loan options.
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The stirrings of unrest have emerged among youthful migrant workers who supply cheap labor to foreign and Chinese businesses.
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As the National People's Congress prepares to meet in early March for its annual policy-setting meeting, economic and social issues are looming large in China, and one overshadows the rest: the mainland's widening income gap.
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NANJING, China -- On the street, they are often the target of laughter or cruel whispers. Individually, they have all been denied jobs or their parents' praise.
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As Wal-Mart, Carrefour and other foreign retailers crowd into China, they are greeted with open arms by a government which, in this industry at least, shows few protectionist proclivities.
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Increased Chinese steel exports give the industry indigestion.
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Skeptical of foreign aid's promise, many are creating their own jobs through clever, small-scale entrepreneurial activities.