Inequality in China is at risk of constraining consumption as Beijing rolls out its new ‘dual circulation’ economic strategy, which focuses on boosting domestic demand.

US President Joe Biden has ordered a review of American supply chains for critical products including semiconductors, with China clearly a target, but observers say relocating production will be difficult.

The population in China’s manufacturing and technology hub officially grew by 6.72 million from 2015-19, and Guangdong authorities are hoping to add about 1 million residents a year through 2035.

Hubei and Hainan lead the country with targets of 10 per cent while Xinjiang aims for 5.5 per cent.

Amid fears of a resurgent coronavirus, local authorities in China have stepped up efforts to discourage migrant workers from travelling home to see their families over the Lunar New Year holiday.

Scores of job ads in China are imposing age limits of 35, leaving many workers nearing middle age feeling insecure about their employment prospects during the pandemic.

Chinese firms in manufacturing hubs like Guangdong see improving trade ties under US President Joe Biden after four tumultuous years of Donald Trump.

China’s Greater Bay Area is seeing billions of yuan allocated to build several new universities and colleges in the next few years amid mounting concerns of technological decoupling with the West.

Restrictions to remain until Tuesday in provincial capital Shijiazhuang and Nangong, and until Monday in Langfang.

Sales of luxury goods in China soared 48 per cent last year to 346 billion yuan (US$53.5 billion) with overseas travel virtually impossible due to the coronavirus.

More than 57 per cent of executives from China and 51 per cent from South Korea said bilateral relations would improve or greatly improve after Joe Biden takes office next week.

Trade war with US saw many companies relocate outside China, but orders came back last year as Chinese production rapidly rebounded from the coronavirus, and a robotics boom is expected in 2021.

Some of China’s wealthy are growing jittery about the threat of government asset seizures, but many are putting emigration on hold because of the coronavirus abroad.

China’s average annual leisure spending was 5,647 yuan (US$863) this year, according to the results of a joint survey, but 44.4 per cent said they spend less than 1,000 yuan.

Communist Party and government officials in Beijing ordered not to leave city for duration of New Year and Lunar New Year holidays.

China’s exports have surged over the past six months thanks to strong demand in Western countries, but a tight labour market is proving a headache for many factories.

Wealthy and middle-class investors have been the biggest winners in China’s economic boom, but the deteriorating external environment and questions surrounding tech start-ups have made them more risk-averse.

As authorities attempt to combat internet crimes and illegal foreign exchange transactions, traders are being told that they must travel to provinces far away to speak with investigators and unfreeze bank accounts.

Strong winter demand, buoyant industrial activity and import restrictions have caused coal prices to skyrocket in China, but Beijing says there is sufficient supply for winter.

Many of the 30,000 Chinese-Venezuelans living in Enping, Guangdong province, face a grim scenario: return to their ‘shattered’ South American home or illegally stay in China.

Danke, run by New York-listed Phoenix Tree Holdings, has been accused of not paying landlords in China, leading to contract cancellations and greater scrutiny of start-ups.

Beijing has designated Shenzhen a model socialist city with special powers to make reforms, but the exact size of the city, a key to determining progress, appears to be a mystery.

The good old days are over and US hawks are in the ascendant, says academic who briefed President Xi Jinping on foreign policy strategy.

Beijing is attempting to maintain Hong Kong’s function as a bridge for global investors into mainland China.

Chinese currency offers stability and absolute returns for international investors, forex researcher says.

Former party school official Zheng Bijian tells conference Beijing must strengthen its military in case new administration does not lead to thaw.

Even as exports have seen a resurgence in China amid global outbreaks of coronavirus, manufacturers see the trend as unsustainable.

There have been a number of actions by China that have ‘contributed to imperilling the relationship’, Larry Summers tells China Development Forum.

China’s daigou women are small-time buyers who would traditionally travel abroad on shopping trips for customers, but have been forced to shift to domestic purchases by the coronavirus.