A local television network in Shandong province has been interrupting taped programs to insert breaking news, a practice common in foreign countries but rare in China due to tight media control.
A major white-collar crime investigation several years running has gained momentum recently, as Beijing investigators dug deeper into billionaire Huang Guangyu's business activities.
A Shandong chemical boss tells the EO of the hard decision he will have to make now that his business has become entangled in the global economic slide.
Families of those killed or made ill by tainted milk in September are threatening to file class-action lawsuits against major Chinese dairies if they refuse to settle out of court.
Partly due to a string of tainted food incidents in October that hurt exports, China's Ministry of Commerce plans to rein the thousands of domestic wholesale agriculture markets into a new nationalized system.
Like regulators all over the world getting into the holiday spirit early, Chinese grain officials are brewing a bailout package to save falling grain prices. Some industry experts say that if Chinese grain prices fall too much and farmers lose incentive t
China's State Council has approved spending 750 billion yuan on China's railway system over the next two years. The move comes at a time when the country's GDP is growth faltering, and will likely stoke demand in several other industries.
To keep the Olympics running smoothly, Sinopec hoarded oil products despite high global prices. But since prices has dived, Sinopec has taken losses as it sells off its inventory.
After weeks of market speculation, the Chinese central government has finally announced tax cuts and relaxed credit rules to boost the sluggish real estate market.
Developers and local governments want to prop up the sluggish real estate market, but the consumers are holding back and waiting for the bubble to pop.
With major land reforms looming, the EO interviews a grass-roots land reform leader and pilot project participant to discuss the fears that farmers have over changes to the rural land-use rights system.