China is boosting the role of the private sector with a series of reforms, including the abolition of minimum capital requirements for newly registered companies.
Fewer new retail outlets are being opened by franchisers, indicating slower growth in sectors ranging from supermarkets to convenience stores, alcoholic beverages and restaurants, an industry survey has shown.
City commercial banks' nonperforming loans and NPL ratios continued to rise in the first quarter, but their situation was still better than that of listed banks.
Specialty chemicals supplier Clariant Ltd will pick up its pace of investing in China amid projections of surging demand for plastic materials during the nation's latest round of urbanization.
If your brand is not creative, not even slightly rebellious, then it may not live up to the Chinese Dream, according to a major new survey.
Companies in the creative industries are leading the charge as Chinese investment floods into London.
As Chinese companies set up shop in London, one of their biggest challenges is being able to obtain useful local information, says Jeff Cao, head of Asia Pacific at London & Partners.
Though much attention has been paid to the precise meaning of the Chinese Dream, as envisaged by President Xi Jinping, most of the discussions have centered on the connection between national values, individual lifestyles and hopes for the future.
James B. Heimowitz says the challenge for international brands in China will be to live up to the increasing demands of consumers, whether or not they are inspired by the Chinese Dream.
People in the West still have not "got their heads around" the astonishing changes in China over the past 20 years, a leading BBC foreign correspondent says.
Humphrey Hawksley Foreign correspondent, BBC Born: United Kingdom Education: 1965-72: Saint Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent Career 1973: Became trainee journalist
Makers of musical instrument in Wuqiang embrace modern tech
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