Weighing up all the factors at work, China's domestic economy will most likely be OK in 2015. There will be some areas, like Internet-based small enterprises, that will probably see great progress. But there will be a dark side. And that will be about the money.
The landmark Club Med transaction by Fosun International is probably the most famous China-Europe investment thus far in history.
Wang Mian, 33, closely examines a crop of tomatoes growing inside a vast greenhouse in a Beijing suburb.
Moutai Town in Southwest China's Guizhou province springs to view after about four hours of bus ride from capital Guiyang. The town by night is a work of colorful lights, and by daylight, it is veiled in mist on most winter mornings. I recommend the road trip through the lush countryside, though nearby Renhuai city will likely open an airport soon.
Ongoing spending on sector providing fillip to flagging economy
The nation's capital market regulator has launched a new round of inspections into the margin trading business of securities firms in a bid to contain risks in leveraged stock speculation.
China has become an increasingly entrepreneurial society, and the post-1980s generation has become the driving force, according to new findings from the National Entrepreneurship Research Center of Tsinghua University.
The Landison Plaza Hotel Cixi in the eastern city of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, has become the first five-star hotel in China to go into receivership after allegedly being hurt by the government's ongoing anti-corruption campaign.
Intensified competition, changing attitudes toward food take toll on burger behemoth
McDonald's is an industrial wonder. It's the biggest restaurant chain in the world, measured by sales, with some 14,000 locations in the United States and 36,000 globally. That's the problem. Executives proudly refer to "the system", which guarantees that its French fries will be the same size everywhere and cooked for exactly the same amount of time; its burgers will be the same thickness and have the same taste; and its liquid eggs will be pre-cooked, folded, and flash-frozen by its suppliers before they become part of a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit.
For the seventh quarter in a row Facebook beat profit and revenue forecasts, continuing to win more mobile advertising revenue as most users shift to using the site on smartphones and other portable devices.
Polish authorities unveiled proposals on Wednesday aimed at helping more than 500,000 Poles with Swiss franc loans, the payments of which are spiking after a surge in the franc.
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