Law & Politics
- LABOR
- Beijing's Trade Unions Seek Economic Independence
- The Beijing Municipal Federation of Trade Unions is working to reform the city's trade unions including advocating direct election of and economic independence for union officials.
- Wang Yan | 2010-09-14
- INCOME DISTRIBUTION
- Plans for Income Distribution Reform to be Completed by October
- Long-neglected plans for income distribution reform are being discussed as China approaches the start of its 12th Five-Year Plan
- Zhang Xiangdong, Jiang Yunzhang | 2010-09-09
- HOUSING
- The Secret Blacklist of Developers Hoarding Property
- Is China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MHURD) keeping a secret list of property developers that are hoarding housing for speculative purposes?
- Song Yao | 2010-08-27
- CENTRALLY-OWNED ENTERPRISES
- Push to Get 6,000 COEs to Pay Dividends to Ministry of Finance
- The Ministry of Finance (MOF) is soliciting opinions from 82 ministerial agencies in a bid to win support for their plan to start collecting dividends from the over 6,000 central-owned enterprises (COEs) that currently operate under the control of various central government ministries and departments.
- Xi Si | 2010-08-25
- GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT
- China to Revise Government Investment Regulations
- The NDRC is looking to curb municipal and county government power over local government investment projects
- Zhang Xiangdong | 2010-08-19
- POLITICS
- Shenzhen at the Crossroads
- The public is eagerly awaiting Shenzhen’s political reform, but political reform in Shenzhen is a sensitive topic
- Yang Xingyun | 2010-08-11
- STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
- China to Unveil State Assets Management Company in August
- China's state-owned assets watchdog will unveil its new assets management firm to consolidate select
- Kang Yi | 2010-08-06
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- China's GDP Grew 9.7% in the First Quarter - March CPI up 5.4%
- Inflation in China jumped to a 32-month high of 5.4% in March, while growth slowed compared to the pace registered in the first quarter of last year.
- Source:National Bureau of Statistics
- New Social Finance Indicator Released as Part of Quarterly Financial R...
- The social finance indicator is an attempt to measure the actual financing capability that exists in the real economy and to provide a better gauge on the amount of liquidity in the financial system.
- Source:People's Bank of China

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