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Micro matters
2013-06-28 10:16
MSEs have big role to play in income growth, creating jobs and poverty reduction.
Ringing in the numbers
2013-06-28 10:16
Financial information helps Chinese entrepreneur blaze new trail with website
Innovation's baton carriers
2013-06-28 10:16
Small businesses have key role to play in China's economic growth, says top academic
Unraveling the funding conundrum
2013-06-28 10:16
Experience of Western nations can help China find solutions for small firms
Micro enterprises face massive problems
2013-06-28 10:16
China's small businesses have been forgotten in the rush to economic growth
Dumping case defies solution
2013-06-21 08:56
With Beijing's negotiators returning to Brussels this week to look for a compromise over China's exports of solar panels to the European Union, insiders say finding a solution to the multi-billion-euro anti-dumping dispute has become difficult in the extreme.
Vines shake in bitter trade wind
2013-06-21 08:56
China's decision to investigate wine imports from the European Union has sparked anxiety in the wine industry amid an escalating trade dispute over Chinese solar panel exports.
Firms give industry expo a miss
2013-06-21 08:56
EU tariffs on solar panels put Chinese manufacturers to flight
Light from the solar panel darkness
2013-06-21 08:56
The recent visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Europe helped focus on the need for dialogue instead of a trade war.
China would do best if it circumvented EU
2013-06-21 08:56
In solar panels dispute there is only one winner: the European Commission
Mass migration to cities a blessing for millions
2013-06-14 09:33
Urbanization will shape the future of China's relationship with the world as it facilitates the country's strategic economic shift from exports to consumption, says author Tom Miller.
The daunting challenges of urbanization
2013-06-14 09:33
But huge opportunities also beckon for Chinese and European companies
New way needed to move labor
2013-06-14 09:33
Urbanization is one of the key focal points for economic reform in China at the moment. That is no surprise, as urbanization is a prime vehicle for growth by channeling people from low-productivity employment in agriculture to higher-productivity jobs and better living standards in the cities.
Chinese cities show up on the global radar
2013-06-14 09:33
Although we might know better, it's still common to think of China as a monolithic whole. But it is high time we unlearned this habit and correctly perceived China's diversity.
In their own coin
2013-06-07 09:11
Bitcoins increase in popularity but reservations exist in some quarters.
Sound bits
2013-06-07 09:11
Why do banks charge fees when you transfer money or withdraw cash and exchange currencies? Because certain infrastructures are used that cost money and when we conduct mining, we are contributing to the safety and smoothness of transactions involving bitcoins, which deserves a reward in the form of bitcoins."
A glance at bitcoin development
2013-06-07 09:11
2008: Pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto posted a paper describing the bitcoin protocol on the Internet. Nakamoto called it a peer-to-peer, electronic cash system.
E-paper
We will not give up search, Li vows
International hunt for missing airliner continues after fruitless six-day search