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The article reports on the Chinese paper company Nine Dragons Paper and its chairman, Cheung Yan. Cheung's talents and achievements are compared favorably with those of the famous 19th century industrialists. Her fortunes and those of her company, which is on track to become the largest papermaker in the world, are detailed.

The article focuses on the white-paper protests that erupted in China a year ago, primarily driven by public dissatisfaction with the government's strict COVID-19 measures. Topics include the effective nature of the protests, the government's subsequent change in its zero-covid policy, and the ongoing repression of protesters through arrests and surveillance technology.

The article discusses the role that private sector businesses play in economic development in China, comparing it with the impact of state capitalism on China's economic conditions. An overview of Chinese industrial state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including their contribution to China's gross domestic product (GDP), is provided.

The article focuses on how flawed systems for judging academic research is contributing to fraud in China in 2013. Topics include the sale of fake scholarly articles within China, why research grants are awarded to those with the highest numbers of articles published, and the problem of fabrication and plagiarism in scholarly articles.

The article explores the significance of science for China's economy, military and social progress. Topics discussed include information on the landing of China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft on the Moon on January 3, 2019, increase in the research and development (R&D) spending of China, and growth in the number of scientific papers by Chinese researchers compared with the U.S.

Reports on competition in China's newspaper business in spring 2001. Details of a battle for market share in the province of Guangdong, which involves the tabloid 'Southern Metropolitan News'; Efforts of rival papers to curb its sales; Promotional gimmicks used by the 'Southern Metropolitan News' to offset its rivals' actions.

The article informs on protests carried out by the students of Tsinghua University against the Chinese President Xi Jinping. It mentions that for the students, it is not all about draconian lockdowns, some are frustrated by a lack of freedom, and young protesters, on campus and off, have taken to holding up blank sheets of paper to highlight China's tight controls on expression.

Discusses Britain's Cable and Wireless (C&W) February 29, 2000 sale of a stake in Hong Kong telecommunications carrier C&W HKT to Richard Li. Li's stake in Internet company PCCW and plan to provide broadband Internet access by cable or satellite in Asia; Singapore Telecom's negotiations with C&W.

The article reports that the Chinese University of Hong Kong tried to explain the country's distinctive pace and pattern of development. Topics include examines the title was as well received as the argument, echoed in a variety of papers such as "Innovating like China", "Investing like China" and "Internationalizing like China".

The article discusses how Tsinghua University soon surpass America's institutions in science and technology subjects and discusses how in China, its rapid rise of technology is not unique. Topics discussed include Number of papers in the top 1 percent most highly cited ones in math and computing; and courses offered by university like Harbin Institute of Technology, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The article focuses on Yanbian, an ethnic-Korean enclave in Yanji, China. Topics discussed include brief history on Koreans' migration to China in the second half of the 19th century, special rights given to Korean-Chinese after the Chinese Communist Party seized power in 1949, and percentage of ethnic-Korean children in Yanbian who live apart from at least one parent, according to a paper by Choi Woogill of Sun Moon University in South Korea.

The article reports on the economic relationship between the U.S. and China. The U.S. has long been urging China to revalue the yuan, but the article argues that the change could be bad for the U.S. America has filed a complaint against Chinese export subsidies with the World Trade Organization. The Department of Commerce has put 10-20% tariffs on paper from China and is filing more complaints over pirated media. China could see its economy explode with a revalued yuan.

This article looks at how China has helped to finance America's vast current-account deficit. Until last year nobody seemed to care that the Chinese yuan was pegged to the dollar. But now China's exchange-rate regime has become one of the hottest topics in international finance-yet more evidence of China's growing influence on the world economy. Many economists argue that China's fixed exchange rate distorts trade and investment flows.By refusing to allow its exchange rate to rise against the dollar, China, they say, is hindering the adjustment in global exchange rates needed to reduce America's current-account deficit, which now stands at more than 5% of GDP. As a result of its pegged exchange rate and large capital inflows, China's foreign-exchange reserves have more than doubled since early 2002 to over $480 billion, most of it in American government securities. China is not alone: other Asian economies have also intervened heavily to prevent their currencies appreciating. But sooner or later, those economists say, China will lose its appetite for dollars, causing the greenback to tumble. However, Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber at Deutsche Bank reject this view. In a series of papers, they argue that America's current-account deficit will be happily financed by China and other Asian countries for at least another decade. This view of Asia's relationship with America helps to explain why in recent years it has proved possible to finance America's large current-account deficit without a bigger rise in American bond yields or a bigger fall in the dollar.

The article discusses the history of different types of subsidies to the fishing and merchant marine industries of various countries in order to illustrate the relationship between shipbuilding and protectionism. Topics include the price gap method of detecting protectionist subsidies, a 2014 working paper written by economist Myrto Kalouptsidi that analyzes the impact of a 2006 shipyard subsidy in China, and how her paper demonstrates the weakness of the price gap method.

The article focuses on Chinese foreign aid in Africa. Topics covered include the vulnerability to misuse of Chinese aid by local leaders since the recipient states are the ones asking for aid, how Chinese aid is contributing to geographic inequalities within recipient countries according to AidData and a paper which found that Chinese aid increased the competition among donors which forced donors to lower conditionality and offering fewer conditions attached to aid.

The article offers information on China's government campaign against foreign garbage for protecting environment and improving public health. Topics include working of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection for same, rubbish imported by the U.S., particularly waste paper supplier America Chung Nam; and imports of waste fallen in China after inspections of scrap metal for circuit boards, plastic for syringes and other medical waste done by Customs officials.

The article looks at politics and mass media in China, focusing on the efforts of the ruling Chinese Communist Party to modernize its propaganda by using social media and publishing news in a more lively and accessible style. Topics include the Chinese government's effort to prevent journalists from publishing undesirable exposés on issues such as corruption, and the state-owned newspapers "Paper" and "Shanghai Observer" are cited.

The article discusses the proliferation on unsafe sanitary towels in China and mentions topics the practice of packaging fake pads with popular brands, the misunderstanding about menstruation and the claims that the government failed to keep consumer products safe.

The article discusses financial contagion in the influence of China's economy on other Asian economies, noting papers from the organizations Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The article reports that the Chinese military has been keeping its weapons development programs secret. The U.S. has reported that it is concerned over China's continued military secrecy, saying that it should state its intentions more clearly. The Chinese defense department published a 105 page paper describing its military ambitions, but the paper is unclear and lacks details.

The article presents an account of the politics, government and economy of China, as of February 20, 2010. It focuses on the efforts of the country's Communist rulers to crush freedom of speech, and prevent the rise of democracy. The sentencing of the scholar Liu Xiaobo to eleven years in prison for publishing a paper calling for reform is cited as an example.

The article presents information about China's research and treatments with stem cells. A study by Halla Thorsteinsdottir of the McLaughlin Rotman Centre for global Health has found that China is the fifth largest source of stem cell research papers in the world. The study also found that, even though there are many fraudulent practices in this field in China, there are also many properly conducted clinical trials using stem cells for heart-muscle damage, liver disease, and other conditions.

The article focuses on the impact deflation in China has on the world economy. It states papers published in 2006 and 2013 found that while Chinese manufacturers helped lower the price of household appliances in Japan and the U.S., increased Chinese food consumption contributed to higher food prices. It mentions China drove around 11 percent of inflation in commodity prices form 2002-2011 with demand from other countries and supply-side constraints explaining the majority of price increases.

This article discusses the impact of foreign investment within China. During a session of China's parliament, the head of the government's statistics service said that if mergers and acquisitions by foreign companies in China continued unchecked, China's brands and its innovative ability would disappear. The debate over foreigners intensified, with some papers publishing criticisms of the sale of stakes in Chinese state-owned banks to foreign banks.

The article discusses how countries such as India and China have shown they can move beyond western imitation to homegrown innovation in certain fields, such as telecommunications and information technology. The same is increasingly true of biotechnology, argues a report just published in Nature Biotechnology by a group at the University of Toronto. The study looks at the state of medical biotechnology in six developing countries--Brazil, China, Cuba, Egypt, India and South Africa--and one recently industrialised one, South Korea, to understand what it takes to build a healthy biotech sector. Many of the countries studied, which began investing in biotech in the 1980s, are starting to see the fruits of their labour. The number of scientific papers on health biotechnology published by researchers in Brazil and Cuba, for example, more than tripled between 1991 and 2002. Much of the biotech industry in the developing world is based on copying western innovation. But such generic manufacturing can be a springboard to more innovative activities. India's pharmaceutical firms are playing an important role in the global fight against AIDS by selling generic versions of anti-retroviral drugs at a fraction of the price charged by their western inventors in the rich world. There are plenty of other hurdles that the countries studied in the report need to tackle before their biotech blossoms fully. Brazil needs better links between academia and industry. Egypt's budding biotechnologists are short of cash from both government and private sources. India's regulatory system is slowing down product development. South Africa needs to do more to reverse its brain drain, and train more researchers to boost their ranks.

Reports on the circulation of a consultation paper, which is the process of enacting a controversial set of laws against subversion, sedition, and treason, as required by Article 23 of the Basic Law in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. Background on Basic Law and the return of Hong Kong to China; Idea that Falun Gong is a potential target of the laws; Fear that the laws are part of a pattern that erodes Hong Kong's autonomy and freedom.

Examines the February launch of the English-language daily `Eastern Express,' a paper of the Oriental Press Group which also publishes the leading Chinese-language paper, `Oriental Daily News.' Oriental Group hopes the `Express' will do for the Hong Kong English-language market what the `Daily News' has done for the Chinese one; The `South China Morning Post'; Advertising; Sale of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to Robert Kuok; Differences in the language markets.

The article focuses on innovations in management by Chinese companies. It comments on the papers "Accelerated Innovation: The New Challenge from China" by Peter Williamson and Eden Yin in "MIT Sloan Management Review" and "A Chinese Approach to Management" by Thomas Hout and David Michael in "Harvard Business Review" concerning Chinese innovations and Chinese entrepreneurs. It talks about the ability of Chinese firms to accelerate product development and react to rapidly changing markets.

Discusses the sentiments from an article in this week's Hong Kong papers by Xu Jiatun, once a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee. Intent to subvert communism by infecting China with the ideas of western democracy; Economic future of Hong Kong; Reforms in China; Predictions.

The article focuses on China's space program and policy. It states the last human on the moon was American astronaut Eugene Cernan back in 1972. It mentions that an official space-policy paper from China has sated its intention to send people to the Moon. It talks about Chinese efforts to upgrade its satellite network and comments on the Tiangong-1 space station. It also mentions that the U.S. is reluctant to allow China to join in the International Space Station venture.

The article discusses a controversy involving auditor Deloitte. Its affiliate in Shanghai, China quit as auditor for software company Longtop after questions arose about Longtop's financial statements. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a subpoena for Deloitte's working papers for its May 2011 audit of Longtop. Deloitte says it can't comply without breaking Chinese laws.

The article discusses how the countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICS) have helped poorer nations emerge from the global recession. According to the article, the study "Global Financial Crisis Discussion Paper Synthesis (phase 2)" by Dirk Willem te Velde from the Overseas Development Institute found that emerging powers affect the growth prospects of poorer ones. How the BRICS' deals have affected trade and foreign direct investment from the West to Africa are discussed.

The article discusses how China's government raised the stamp tax it levies on share purchases. It is suggested in the article that the raised tax will negatively effect China's economy. The article asserts that China needs fewer regulatory restraints on the investment options available to citizens, and that citizens should be allowed to invest more freely abroad, or in commercial paper and bonds.

The article reports on U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's first visit to China. Chinese officials let him see their nuclear-missile command center and address Communist Party cadres about the need for more transparency. But military ties between the two countries are not about to blossom. Mr Rumsfeld made his misgivings clear in a speech at the Central Party School where mid-ranking cadres are groomed for leadership. Every society, he said, had to be "vigilant against another type of Great Wall" that limits speech, information or choices. And he claimed that other countries wondered why China was rapidly building up its armed forces without acknowledging it. The Chinese have long angled for a visit by Mr Rumsfeld, hoping that this would symbolise America's willingness to put aside the fracas that broke out between them in April 2001 when a reckless Chinese fighter bumped into an American reconnaissance plane, forcing it to make an emergency landing in China. In their first "white paper" on democracy-building, issued during Mr Rumsfeld's visit, China's leaders made it clear that they had no plans for significant political reform.

The article looks at economic policy in China as of May 7, 2005. The Chinese authorities have chosen the spring holiday, with the stockmarkets closed this past week, to confront a mountain of paper that has long bothered them: the country's state-owned shares. Also known as non-tradable or "legal person" shares and held by provinces, cities or the central government, these account for two-thirds of the $400 billion market value of the companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. At long last, on May 1st the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the main stockmarket regulator, issued guidelines to deal with the overhang. As part of a trial program, the state will start to sell shares in a small number of listed companies. In order to avoid depressing prices further, the CSRC and two-thirds of the public, minority shareholders will in each instance have to approve the conversion of non-tradable into normal shares. Another issue is whether existing shareholders will be granted pre-emption rights to buy what the state is selling, perhaps even at a discount. Overseas fund managers, who have recently started to invest more in Chinese domestic shares under the government's Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme, have long argued for this, in order to minimise the dilution they will otherwise suffer.

The article discusses how researchers led by Gane Ka-Shu Wong, of the Beijing Institute of Genomics have developed a genetic blueprint of Bombyx mori, the domesticated silkworm, in a paper published in Science. Dr Wong's team also made a significant contribution to the elucidation of the genome of another Asian species, the chicken. Wong and his colleagues were particularly involved in comparing the genome of the wild red jungle fowl of South East Asia, the ancestor of the domestic chicken, with several agricultural varieties. Their findings confirm China's rise to prominence as a power in the world of genomics. It also allows biologists to start comparing species from related, but not too closely related, groups of organisms. Not surprisingly, the analyses showed that birds have a lot in common with mammals, such as humans, rats and mice, and moths with flies. The two insect lines, for example, share two-thirds of their genes. That suggests these areas have some crucial, but as yet unperceived, function.

Discusses how cardboard is in short supply in Japan. In Japan, China's insatiable demand for raw materials is now endangering the most vital commodity in retailing: the cardboard box. Once blamed for exporting deflation to Japan, China is now charged with causing the recent surge in the prices of nickel, plywood and other commodities. Japanese cardboard-makers are reluctant to match these prices and have opted to lower production instead. Still, after another hike in procurement costs last autumn, the Japan Corrugated Association, the industry body, called on its members to start raising cardboard-box prices. Local governments, which collect waste cardboard along with other sorts of rubbish, are also affected: they find private collectors now swipe the stuff before they arrive.

As the world's biggest single body of fresh water, Lake Baikal in Russia has always stirred passions. Its annual freezing and thawing drive thermal mixing all the way down to its bottom, 1,637 meters (5,371 feet) deep, bringing oxygen to a rich mix of plants and animals, keeping the lake water so clean you can drink it, and inspiring almost religious beliefs in its powers. Baikal Environmental Wave, led by Jenny Sutton, a British three-decade resident of nearby Irkutsk, argued against a pulp-and-paper mill that pumps effluent into the lake, damaging the environment nearby and, she says, killing some of the freshwater seals unique to Baikal. Many feel the lake is big enough to take the impact of letting the local economy grow, at least quite a bit. But now there is a new threat. In April the government said it would let Yukos, an oil company, build a pipeline from the oilfields near Angarsk, said to be as big as Kuwait's, to Daqing in China. The pipeline would curve around the southern end of Baikal, cutting across 59 of its tributaries. In a highly seismic region--141 years ago, 200 square kilometers (77 square miles) of lakeshore sank under water in an earthquake--that is risky. Yukos's own impact study acknowledges that there is a "quite real" possibility of the pipeline rupturing and oil reaching the lake. And though Japan's government is urging Russia to take a more expensive route northwards and to Nakhodka, Russia's closest big port to Japan, this would run similar risks. According to Greenpeace, environmental laws are frequently flouted: all the proposed versions of the China pipeline, for instance, run through national parks, which is supposedly illegal.

Presents a series of noteworthy events from the millennium ending in 1999. Issuance of the first paper money by China in 1024; The founding of universities around 1100; Use of the magnetic compass by European sailors beginning around 1250; The development of banks in Italy by 1300.

Eulogizes journalist Helen Snow, who died on January 11, 1997 at age 89. Her books and papers, mainly about China; Her travels to China; Her 1939 book, 'Inside Red China,' an account of her meetings with Mao Zedong; Her marriage to Edgar Snow; The recognition given to Snow by the Chinese government.

Reveals that `Beijing Youth News,' a government newspaper, has printed a story that workers in foreign-owned factories in Tianjin, a port city, had gone on strike at least ten times this year. Why the paper felt it was safe to draw attention to the strikes; Why strikes are illegal; Prospect of industrial unrest caused by reforms of state-run industry; Beijing aims to remove 17 million workers from state industrial payroll; Redundant workers an unstable factor; Details.

The article focuses on a research paper by Alwyn Young, a business professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which looks at how Hong Kong, China and Singapore became such economics giants. Hong Kong and Singapore started on a similar footing in 1945. Both were city states, British colonies making their living as trading ports. Both climbed the same industrial ladder, moving up from textiles to plastics to consumer electronics to financial services. The sources of growth in the two territories turned out to be startlingly different. In the two decades after 1970, Hong Kong's output per worker went up more than 2.5 times, Singapore's a little more than twofold. By the mid-1980s Singapore's incremental capital-output ratio was twice Hong Kong's. Hong Kong seemed to benefit so much from the better education of its people.

Reports on Kodak's decision to make a huge investment in the Chinese market as of March 28, 1998. Its efforts to boost a losing market share to Fuji film; Details of special arrangements that have been made with the Chinese government regarding the structure of Kodak's enterprise in the country; Financial data; Analysis.