Farmer-Worker: a person leaving the farm and working in a Chinese city

Groups of them have caught the attention of global media and economic observers as the economy of world's factory walks into a stage of growth deceleration...

I have subscribed to a Google Alert for the keyword 'Alibaba' for almost a year. Normally it just brings me a few stories about the company. However, starting this week, my Google Alert has been sending me several success stories a day...

Nothing brings people to town quite like an announcement that RMB 4 trillion is up for grabs. I heard from a friend the other day that hotels neighboring Beijing’s NDRC offices have been filling up fast as provincial NDRC officials rush to the Northern Capital in search of details, spending plans, and…money...

Shanghai Development and Reform Commission recently released the "Shanghai Solar PV project Temporary Legislation." This legislation enables people to install private solar panels on their roof tops for the first time...

I recently browsed Sina news, and saw this article about airlines offering 90% discounts for both domestic flights and international flights. These huge discounts are provided mainly by Chinese carriers and are targeted to travelers who travel during the current economic downturn...

2008 has truly been a remarkable year. First, we had the snowstorm during the absolute worst time possible: Chinese New Year. As most of you know, this is when the entire country is mobile as people return to their hometowns to celebrate with family...

The recent RMB4 trillion stimulus plan has presented a whole range of short-term outcomes for economists to chew over: 8-9% GDP growth in 2009, continued gloom for exporters and support for commodity prices, to name a few...

Earlier this week I went to the China Financial Conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal here in Shanghai. The event itself had a very impressive group of leaders from business and government here in China...

The answer seems to be an obvious "yes". Games, online games, video games, even portable games, are assumed to be 100% technology-driven. With innovations on graphics and sound performance, network connection, and input devices, the game industry has never been so simultaneously addicting for hard core otakus, fashion girls, family users including grannies and parents, and common new users...

Today CCTV started to auction its ad time for 2009. Currently CCTV has a total of 14 channels broadcasting throughout China. According to official statistics, CCTV has about 32% of TV market share in terms of total penetration...

My colleague Mary Wen and I are trying to figure out how much of Melinda Liu's new piece on the man who murdered an American in Beijing's Drum Tower last August actually came from her pen, so to speak...

The fiscal stimulus package is a lot more than just infrastructure investment – a good deal of it can be read as a move by the government to usher the Chinese economy into an era of consumption-driven growth...

The title sort of says it all. Clearly China matters in the world today, more so than just about any other place outside of the US. Say what you want about the latest "stimulus package," but the market believes China matters enough to vigorously debate what the package actually means and if China can help pull the world out of its slump...

The 2008 Travel Industry Investment Summit, an event that was going to be held next week in Shanghai, has been postponed. When asked the reason behind this, the secretariat of the summit explained that due to the financial crisis, a lot of investing institutions had canceled their plans to attend...

Here is an example of a current conversation between the bosses at three different Chinese export based SMEs after Alibaba released its lower-priced Gold Supplier Starter Pack last Monday:

Company A: Hey, I got a call from Alibaba salesperson last week and learned that they have just released a entry-level Gold Supplier Starter Pack service...