The government has poured billions of yuan into the space program and can count the pay-offs in terms of military technologies, but it should have co-opted private investors.
It might look like a temple, but according to the listed company that is now counting its tickets sales among its assests, it's a cultural tourism site.
At 9 a.m. on Thursday, seven million Chinese teenagers will begin two days of exams to determine their prospects, but it's not just the scores that count.
The coastal province is struggling to retain the migrants who staff its factories, but that might change once the children of those workers can sit exams locally.
Only three percent of witnesses ever appear in a courtroom and judges rule on up to four cases a day - the EO hears about the stresses of administering justice in China.
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.