As prospering Beijing continues to swell and sprawl, subway lines become the arteries of the city, linking its inhabitants and channeling the development of its property market.
Toll operators are extending the duration of tolling periods by many years, using legal loopholes to evade regulation and scam billions of yuan from drivers.
Jilin province is in the clutches of the most intense drought that has affected the region in 100 years, leading to massive disruptions in agricultural production and farmers' way of life.
An investigation into hundreds of millions of euros in suspected bribe funds at the German headquarters of Siemens has led to the detention of a respected hospital director in Jilin province.
In the wake of energy consumption reduction quotas being dropped, eight agencies depart the capital to assess how local government in environmentally-stressed provinces are pricing energy for high-polluting, high-consuming industries.
Investors claim they lost everything when the government seized oil well assets and provided meager and inconsistent compensation. The case, which has caught the attention of top government agencies, will be a historic test of the new Property Law.
Just days in office, a Hebei official begins demolishing steel mills that are breaking the law. But do the environmental costs of their actions merit the thousands of jobs lost in the shutdowns?
The Ministry of Commerce has completed a round of investigations into disingenuous reporting by textile exporters. Will it target the black market trade in quotas next?
A new law likely to be promulgated this year will give preferential taxes to the burgeoning outsourcing industry in China as it sets its sights on catching up to India.
