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Led by a deputy premier who replaced the ousted Bo Xilai, Chongqing has secured investments worth 350 billion yuan from centrally-controlled state enterprises.

Beijing's Credulous Home Buyers

Developers in the capital, where home buyers must put up at least 30% of a property's sale price, are winning customers by offering to defer that down payment.

Tianjin’s Precarious Growth

Tianjin is seeking to sell control of a major securities firm in a deal that highlights the debts taken on by the municipality as it rose up the regional growth table.

Holding Back the Middle Class

Restrictions on entrepreneurship are holding back the growth of China’s middle class, says Yale finance professor Chen Zhiwu.

Interview: "Currency Wars" Author

ISong Hongbing says China should push currency integration across Asia, learning from Germany, which gave up the deutschmark but got control of Europe and the euro.

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Personnel Shake-up at CSRC

Changes to personnel at China's top securities regulator are being seen as an attempt to break-up existing networks of influence and are part of efforts to push ahead with reforms.

AMC Buy Up Property Trust Assets

China's four main state-owned asset management companies are bargain hunting among the country's troubled property trust investment vehicles.

Making HK's Yuan Deposits Flow

The head of Hong Kong's monetary authority speaks to the EO about the strength of the offshore RMB market, bond issuance and the city-state's reserves.

Plan to Split CIC Approved

China's State Council has approved a plan to separate the international operations of the country's sovereign wealth fund from its wholly-owned, domestically-focused unit

Beijing's Regional Transfer Payments

The central government sees the regional reallocation of tax revenue as the basis for supporting the poorer provinces. This story explains that process.

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Copied Cars Harm China Industry

It's clear from the Chinese models on show at the auto show: you can’t clone innovation. The pursuit of foreign technology has come at the expense of domestic R&D.

Online Retailer's Costly Growth

Vancl lost its way after sales grew sixfold early in 2011 - a pile of mops and cookers taught the CEO that a shortage of stock is better than a surplus.

Ships Blocked from Chinese Ports

A look at who wants to stop large iron ore carriers docking at Chinese ports and why

Helicopter Boom As Skies Open Up

Eurocopter, the world’s largest helicopter maker, saw China revenue grow 70% in 2011 after the government pledged to loosen restrictions on low altitude flights.

Crying Over Steel Wheels

After Masteel got an oral pledge from Liu Zhijun, who at the time was Minister for Railways, the Anhui-based firm made a huge investment in machinery necessary to meet the order.

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Getting onto the Party Congress

One entrepreneur's quest to become a delegate to the Communist Party's National Congress and how it was more difficult than steering his company's IPO.

Private Lending Clubs in Fujian

Private lending auctions are common in the province's coastal towns - whoever offers to pay the highest rate gets the loan, which is taken from a pool of members' funds.

Sichuan's Bleakest Town

No one feels at home in Lingshui, a provincial town with a street called “Waiting for Death,” hundreds of mah-jong addicts and BMW owners on annual visits to their abandoned pare...

Myanmar's Suspended Dam Part 3

The third part of Qin Hui's three-part series on the Myitsone dam focuses on the relationship between the Chinese and Burmese.

Zhejiang's "Toxic Capsule" Town

The factories using industrial gelatin to make pills were closed soon after CCTV reported the scandal, but the workers themselves had long avoided the pills.

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Unrest, Competition and Overcrowding

The Challenges Facing the Party Bosses of Guangdong, Sichuan and Henan

Unrest, Competition and Overcrowding

German & Chinese Scholars on What Ma

The EO, Sohu & the Goethe Institute present a special Sino-German feature on the state of higher education.

China Policy Barometer 2012

The EO takes a look at what the heads of 23 central government departments view as the most important goals and challenges facing them over the coming year.

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Getting More SOE to Pay Dividends

Beijing Capital International Airport may soon be one of thousands of state-owned companies that will be added to the list of SOE required to submit dividends to the MOF

China's Next Big Reform Project

The central government will push ahead with reforms to the quasi-government institutions that supply many of China's public services and employ over 30 million people.

Thirst for Oil Draws Aquino To Hu

The only thing that can be said for sure of the Philippine President's visit is that both countries stood their ground in asserting sovereignty claims over the South China Sea, wri...

NDRC to Revise System for Evaluating

Foreign institutions will be invited to evaluate the performance of government officials

Special Feature: The Regional "Two S

A look at development plans for the next five years for Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Shenzhen, and Central China

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