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 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.
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 parents.
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.
Civil servants used tax break and cheap land to lure Foxconn to Chengdu, but some of them are regretting the government's pledge to help recruit workers for the factory.
"He does whatever he’s told and doesn’t complain." The EO hears from bosses in Dandong, where there's a thriving trade in illegal labor from North Korea.
Sichuan's development plans were thrown off track by the Wenchuan earthquake and the provincial party boss was forced to focus on restoration and reconstruction.
Guangdong, which accounts for only 1.9 percent of China's land area, generates one eighth of the country's GDP. As economic growth slows, workers may struggle for basic necessities, such as food and clothing.
In Henan, the party boss is trying to move millions of farmers into the cities. He just needs to find a way around central government limits on the amount of land that can be converted for urban use.
After the government banned public kindergartens from running preparatory courses, one school found another way to keep the lucrative classes going - moving building.
China’s two northern municipalities, Beijing and Tianjin, have been battling for state planners’ attention for decades, but the capital may have lost its edge recently.
The coastal province of Guangdong was the first beneficiary of China’s export-driven growth, but some villagers still regret the day that factories replaced farms.
Fujian has put its air raid shelters to new uses after tensions eased with its eastern neighbor, Taiwan. Instead of terrified citizens, the shelters now hold bananas.
Two decades of rising tea prices were a boon for villagers in Fujian, but the girls who used to work the plantations now want jobs in factories and shops.
