Editor's Note: The Communist Party of China will hold its 19th National Congress on Oct 18. In the runup to the meeting, China Daily asked prominent company executives to provide their views on economic developments here and the country's global leadership role. The first two are Jeremy Hunter, president for Henkel Greater China, and Thierry Garnier, president and CEO of Carrefour China.
As the first non-Asian news anchor on Chinese television, Edwin Maher's face is known to millions. Through him, viewers at home and abroad have learned of the profound changes taking place across China.
Despite only arriving in China three years ago, Australian professor Jeffrey Reimers has already had a significant impact on Shanghai's scientific community.
It was during a meal with 10 elderly law professors in 1998 that Jeffrey S. Lehman, vice-chancellor of NYU Shanghai, was first inspired to become a bridge between his native United States and China.
Leonard Pratt's first foray into the world of journalism came when he wrote for the school newspaper at Columbia University in the United States. It was an experience he enjoyed so much he decided to make a career out of it.
There are major emerging challenges facing China's agrifood sector.
US free market absolutist ideologists pump out more irrelevant and confusing rhetoric than a giant squid pours out ink - the wave of criticism for China's anti-corruption policies being a case in point.
China's ability to balance its international responsibilities while overcoming domestic challenges will be a key issue for the 19th Party Congress this year, according to Richard Graham, a British member of Parliament and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary China Group.
With China set to launch an emission trading system (ETS) nationwide to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, its policymakers could learn a thing or two from California's successful ETS.
One factor could further destabilize an already-tenuous leverage-and liquidity-based system: digital currencies. And policymakers and regulators have far less control on this factor.
China's phenomenal bike-sharing business is set to take a strategic twist at home. While Chinese bike-sharing company Mobike rolled out the first of 750 bikes in West London on Tuesday, Beijing's transportation management authorities have called a halt to such dock-less, hire-on-demand bikes in the city, where some 2.35 million "shared" bikes are being run by 15 companies.
Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple Inc, launched three new products - iPhone8, iPhone8 Plus and iPhoneX - on Tuesday but, unlike in the past, the Chinese market's response at best was lukewarm.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|