CITIC's Hong Kong platform is expected to demand its investment bankers move to the mainland with their pay lowered to local levels or face the prospect of losing their jobs, sources say
The chip industry is keen to protect its profits in China as the Biden administration considers another round of restrictions on chip exports to the world's second-largest economy
Prospects for this year are unclear; even steady growth of 3-4% a year must seem small for a country that averaged around 7% last decade, and more than 10% in the 2000s
Experts say any move to cooperate on cutting emissions of methane – a greenhouse gas responsible for roughly 30% of global warming – would be positive
The Chinese telecom giant has fallen behind South Korea's Samsung in the country, where brick-and-mortar remain the bigger players in smartphone sales
Some say China has been "scarred" by years of strict Covid measures and regulatory curbs on property and tech firms, but there is also less demand for its exports amid the global slowdown
Bosses of Intel, Qualcomm and Nvidia plan to lobby top officials against extending curbs on the sale of advanced computer chips to China – or advocating for any moves to be eased or delayed
There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
The Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
The Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
Asia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade