Orange Wang

Orange Wang covers the Chinese macroeconomy, and has many years of experience with China's monetary and fiscal policy moves. He also covered global market and financial news for a long time, with a particular focus on new technologies and their influences on economic growth and society. Before joining the South China Morning Post, Orange worked as a Shanghai Correspondent for ET Net, a Hong Kong financial news agency.

China’s retail sales growth slowed more than expected in July. Photo: AFP

Companies

China’s July economic data points to further slowing

15 Aug 2018 - 9:35am 30

Trends suggest Chinese households currently have less appetite for discretionary purchases. Photo: Reuters

Economy

Middle class won't help China spend its way out of trade war

13 Aug 2018 - 11:37pm 102

Xian has been actively seeking new residents as part of its growth strategy. Photo: Imaginechina

Economy

Why China's ancient capital is in the grip of property fever

13 Aug 2018 - 1:58pm 8

Staff work on a micro motor production line at a factory in Huaibei, Anhui province. Beijing wants banks to improve their internal systems to encourage lending to small business. Photo: AFP

Economy

Beijing tells banks to lend more to small business as economy slows

3 Aug 2018 - 11:20pm 4

Crating jobs will be one of the main focuses for China’s government, it said. Photo: Reuters

Economy

What trade war? China says focus still on reducing debt, creating jobs

1 Aug 2018 - 12:18am 61

Confidence in products made by Chinese pharmaceutical firms has sunk to a new low. Photo: Reuters

Policies & Politics

How China’s protectionist vaccine policy has backfired on Beijing

31 Jul 2018 - 11:31pm 42

China’s central bank is allowing its tightly controlled yuan to drift lower against the dollar, a move that could help some exporters cope with US tariffs. Photo: AP

Economy

Can a weaker yuan help China deal with the trade war fallout?

28 Jul 2018 - 11:24pm 22

Alipay and Tenpay were each fined 600,000 yuan for breaking the rules on foreign exchange transactions. Photo: Bloomberg

Economy

Chinese mobile payment giants Alipay, Tenpay fined for breaking rules

25 Jul 2018 - 9:47pm 3

Proponents of the scheme hope that trains will be able to run in vacuum-sealed tunnels at speeds of 1,300km per hour. Photo: Guizhou New Media Centre

China

Could 1,220km/h trains debut in this remote Chinese city?

20 Jul 2018 - 7:56pm 15

Figures published by China’s National Energy Administration for electricity use in the agriculture sector caused confusion and annoyance among economists and analysts. Photo. EPA

Economy

China’s official figures: lies, damned lies or just tweaked statistics?

18 Jul 2018 - 7:48am 55

Chinese media outlets have been warned not to “overplay” their reporting of the issue. Photo: AFP

Economy

What China’s censors don't want the people to know about the trade war

17 Jul 2018 - 11:08am 129

The Liaoning government is encouraging couples to have more babies as it seeks to raise its population to 45 million by 2030, from 43.7 million at the end of last year. Photo: AFP

Economy

Chinese province wants more babies, but is it too little, too late?

12 Jul 2018 - 10:17pm 3

China sees an opportunity to find common ground with others hit by Donald Trump’s trade wrath, including the European Union, Canada and Russia. Photo: Bloomberg

Economy

How China plans to push back against Trump in ‘economic cold war’

11 Jul 2018 - 11:43pm 68

Made in China 2025 is the central government’s big plan to move China up the global value chain. Photo: Shutterstock

Economy

Is Beijing going back to the future with ‘Made in China 2025’?

10 Jul 2018 - 10:04am 49

Analysts say conflict could damage the global economy, but Chinese social media users are more interested in a ship full of soybeans

Diplomacy & Defence

US, China begin ‘biggest trade war in economic history’

7 Jul 2018 - 2:21pm 67

Street cat Baidian’er – which means “white spot” in Chinese, referring to the patch of fur under his nose – was often found near the west gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Photo: Arthur Yang

Society

China’s ‘psychic’ ginger cat dies after World Cup winning streak

3 Jul 2018 - 4:16pm

Germany’s defeat by Mexico has been one of a number of surprise results at the soccer World Cup. Shocks during the tournament, along with a stock market slump, were cited as reasons for closing the rooftops. Photo: EPA

Society

World Cup betting suicide fears lead housing estate to lock rooftops

2 Jul 2018 - 6:38pm 5

US President Donald Trump’s trade dispute with China already has brought pain to some European companies, according to an official with the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. Photo: AP

Policies & Politics

EU firms in China are ‘hurting’ from Trump’s trade war threats

30 Jun 2018 - 11:14pm 7

The US will impose 25 per cent tariffs on US$34 billion of Chinese goods from July 6 – while China will cut duties on imports from South Korea, India, Bangladesh, Laos and Sri Lanka from July 1. Photo: AFP

Diplomacy & Defence

China cuts import tariffs for South Korea, India as trade war looms

27 Jun 2018 - 2:58am 19

The People’s Bank of China said on Sunday it would release US$100 billion into the banking system by allowing lenders to reduce their reserve requirements. Photo: Bloomberg

Economy

Can China cut debt and maintain growth, or is it mission impossible?

26 Jun 2018 - 11:15pm 4

China’s yuan fell 1.2 per cent against the US dollar last week and could be set to depreciate further. Photo: Reuters

Economy

Beijing should 'stop using exchange rate levels as a monetary policy tool'

25 Jun 2018 - 12:13pm 4

Beijing has said it will retaliate with both “quantitative and qualitative” measures to the latest US tariffs threat. Photo: EPA-EFE

Economy

Beyond measure or a dent to GDP growth? How a trade war could hit China

20 Jun 2018 - 11:47pm 18

China may have to resort to measures other than tariffs on goods to compete with the US in a trade war. Photo: AFP

Diplomacy & Defence

US outguns China on trade tariffs but Beijing’s not done yet

20 Jun 2018 - 12:15am 43

The mainland introduced China’s qualified foreign institutional investor programme in 2003. Photo: Xinhua

Economy

Why is China making it easier for foreign investors to get money out?

14 Jun 2018 - 11:50am

US Treasuries are one of the most liquid and secure places for Beijing to park its massive pile of foreign exchange. Photo: Bloomberg

Economy

Why China will keep firm grip on US debt even if trade war breaks out

5 Jun 2018 - 9:22pm 27

Hangzhou is at the centre of Zhejiang’s plans to establish its own integrated economic area. Photo: Alamy

Economy

East China province plans mega economic zone with US$938 billion output by 2022

30 May 2018 - 10:48pm 3

A Chinese gamer in make-up and costume poses with the caption “Welcome to Africa”. Photo: Weibo

Policies & Politics

In China’s gaming world, ‘Europeans’ and ‘Africans’ expose stereotypes

29 May 2018 - 10:32pm 6

China is the world’s largest importer of soybeans. Photo: Reuters

Economy

China orders farmers to grow more soybeans despite US deal

23 May 2018 - 10:35pm 36

Liao Min, a well-known folk singer during his university days in the late 1980s, is now deputy director of China’s Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs. Photo: Baidu

Economy

Meet the new face on China’s trade team in Washington: he’s a star

23 May 2018 - 10:45am 20

Beijing reduced VAT rates for many businesses on May 1, but its fiscal revenue for the first four months of the year still soared to record highs. Photo: Xinhua

Economy

Beijing fails to match US on tax cuts, as fiscal revenue soars

15 May 2018 - 7:56pm 12

China’s island province of Hainan is looking for 1 million new residents by 2025, and is happy to pay to get them. Photo: Bloomberg

Economy

'China's Hawaii' offers cheap rents, work visas to a million migrants

15 May 2018 - 8:17pm 16

The industrial city of Baotou has also admitted to problems with its official data, revising down its fiscal revenue for last year after admitting there were “fake” additions. Photo: Simon Song

Economy

First it faked its data. Now Inner Mongolia’s late releasing the numbers

11 May 2018 - 10:37pm 1

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced a series of measures in his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Photo: Reuters

Diplomacy & Defence

China moves to strengthen financial ties with Japan as trade war looms

11 May 2018 - 10:37pm 3

Tourists take a ferry ride on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, whose residents were China’s highest earners in the first three months of this year. Photo: Bloomberg

Economy

Shanghai home to China’s top earners, as wealth gap widens

9 May 2018 - 8:00am 5

Kaihin the panda. Photo: Miaopai.com

Society

‘Dancing’ China panda is actually in distress, say experts

2 May 2018 - 8:18pm 1

The mother was close to death by the time it was rescued. Photo: Weibo

Society

Dog sealed in wall may have eaten own puppy to survive

2 May 2018 - 10:45am

Anybody caught smoking on China’s high-speed trains will be banned from the system for six months. Photo: Xinhua

Society

Tough bans for China’s unruly plane and high-speed rail passengers

1 May 2018 - 11:00pm 12

Entertainers try to drum up interest in a blockchain product at a conference in Macau. Pthoto: Orange Wang

China

Welcome to China’s wild, wild world of blockchain investment

30 Apr 2018 - 11:50pm 3

Tianjin recorded growth of just 1.9 per cent in the first quarter – a far cry from its days of double-digit growth. Photo: PA-EFE

Economy

Xi aims to boost domestic demand as trade war looms

24 Apr 2018 - 5:20pm 3

People look for work at a job fair in Shanghai. China’s unemployment rate was 5.1 per cent at the end of March, according to the new measure. Photo: ImagineChina

Economy

China is taking a new approach to its jobless rate, but is it enough?

21 Apr 2018 - 11:02pm 1

Workers assembling remote controls for air conditioners and water heaters at a factory in Hefei in Anhui province. Photo: Reuters

China

Steady as she grows for China's economy as GDP up 6.8 per cent

17 Apr 2018 - 10:26pm 31

Yi Gang, the newly appointed central bank governor, said China will stick to a practice of prudent monetary policy. Photo: Reuters

China

Is China’s ‘cheap money’ era over as credit shrinks and rates rise?

14 Apr 2018 - 11:40pm 1

Despite a slight drop in March, China still recorded a trade surplus in the first quarter of the year. Photo: Chinatopix via AP

China

China sees rare trade deficit … but US surplus remains

13 Apr 2018 - 11:32pm 1

Chinese officials and media have pushed the message that Xi Jinping’s pledges, including cuts to tariffs on car imports, were not the result of US pressure. Photo: AP

China

Xi’s open markets pledge? Nothing to do with Trump, says Beijing

12 Apr 2018 - 8:44pm 25