Is China’s Economic Slowdown Putting a Dent in Xi Jinping’s Military Ambitions?
China’s defense budget will increase by 7%-8% in 2016, its slowest rate in at least six years, a senior Chinese official announced on Friday.
View ArticleMaking Waves: In Blow to Foreign Films, China Gives ‘Mermaid’ Three-Month Boost
China's film regulators have agreed to expand the screening period of a recent domestic hit to an unprecedented four months -- virtually ensuring that no foreign film can surpass the highest-grossing...
View Article‘Lianghui Gray:’ Smog Chokes Beijing as National People’s Congress Kicks Off
On the eve of its biggest political pageant of the year, Beijing was stubbornly hunkered down in the midst of one of its regular "airpocalypses."
View ArticleChina Sets Economic Growth Target of 6.5% to 7% for 2016
China has set an economic growth target of between 6.5% and 7% for 2016 and an average of at least 6.5% over the next five years.
View ArticleChina NPC 2016: The Reports
China Real Time has scanned and uploaded the text of this year's government work report and other documents, in both English and Chinese.
View ArticleChina NPC: More ‘Development,’ ‘Growth’ and ‘Military,’ Less ‘Work’ and...
Up this year in China: tax, growth and adjustment. No, not in percentage terms. Instead, these are words that Premier Li Keqiang used in the Work Report for 2016 that he delivered on Saturday.
View Article5 Takeaways from China’s New Policy Programs
Chinese leaders are confronting a stubbornly slowing economy. Here are five takeaways from their plans.
View ArticleThe Limits of Growth: Economic Headwinds Inform China’s Latest Military Budget
With GDP growth slowing and social and demographic headwinds mounting, Chinese leaders face increasingly difficult tradeoffs concerning the country's military budget.
View ArticleAt China’s Rubber-Stamp Parliament, Real Stamps Are All the Rage
On Saturday in a small, jam-packed room tucked inside Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the atmosphere was one of barely-suppressed excitement.
View ArticleEarly Look: China’s Soft Economic Growth Challenges Decision Makers
As China's leaders and policymakers gather for the annual parliament meetings, they are facing some harsh economic challenges: sluggish industrial growth, weak foreign trade and four full years’ of...
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