Private power

Chinese entrepreneurs focus on innovation, reshape growth priorities to offset rough headwinds.

Blooming in business

Forging a path to success

Making the right moves ...

... and making the experiences count

Electric vehicle industry in the slow lane

A recent Mckinsey & Company report on the maturity of the Chinese electric vehicle market has spurred discussion on Chinese EV performance and industry prospects.

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Tough choices ahead to alter country's direction

October was an important month to get it right, and China nailed it. The debate over whether the economy is facing a hard or soft landing has raged for months, and seemingly in the course of a few days, fears of a hard landing were mollified and the road to recovery made clear as a raft of positive data came out. The data could not have come at a better time either, with the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China just weeks away.

Woes leave legacy we can be thankful for

China and innovation: some myths to dispel

How to get the eggs into the right basket

Down at the gyms

China's fitness industry lacks muscle and suffers from growing pains.

Let's get physical

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Staying on the treadmill

Winter blues for textile makers

Township weaves innovation into clothing industry

Busting at the seams

European investors cool toward China

Smart thinking on power

Bright ideas for cities of light

Filling China's insurance gaps

No horns of a dilemma over conservation

Paul Muya, a deputy spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, is concerned every time he sees reports about the booming wealth of China's middle class.

Paper giant

Gluttons for glutinous oil rice

Recipe

Shine on, rising star

Hefei in Anhui provinse is more than a connection point between China's eastern and central regions.

Young startups far from upstarts

An old pedicab driver and a former professor stricken with cancer, each of whom donated their life savings to help students - these are the people who inspired this year's young Entrepreneur of the Year and the reasons why he chose the education business.

Harmonic maestro

Time for a change

Art of Change: New Directions from China is a major exhibition to focus on contemporary installation and performance art from China.

Conferences & Meetings

Diplomatic Pouch: With Mike Peters

The false dawn of Eastern dominance

Pankaj Mishra believes the East won a decisive battle against the West more than a century ago, but it has only proven to be a "Pyrrhic" victory today.