Day: March 23, 2024

China is ready to roll out new rules to bring down some of the barriers faced by foreign companies, Premier Li Qiang told global business leaders in Beijing on Sunday. Addressing the China Development Forum, Li said Beijing would create more opportunities for global investors through macroeconomic policy, urbanisation, industrial upgrades and the transition to a green economy. “The fundamentals sustaining China’s long-term economic growth remain unchanged,” he said, playing up prospects for the world’s second-largest economy. The China Development Forum is an annual conference organised by the State Council’s…

The nanodrug “alleviates kidney injury efficiently” in injury-induced mice, the researchers wrote in a paper published online on March 8 in the peer reviewed journal Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. Nano delivery systems are a rapidly developing area of science where nanoscale materials can be used to deliver therapeutic agents to specific targeted sites in a controlled manner. Chinese team grows humanised kidneys in pigs, raising hopes and ethical concerns Acute kidney injury happens when the kidneys suddenly stop working properly, usually in less than a few days. In severe cases,…

“It’s fair to say that China has the strongest squad of engineers and constructors, who have benefited from the country’s building boom since the mid-2000s,” said Xu Tianchen, a senior China-based economist with the Economist Intelligence Unit. “China is also experienced in providing full life cycle solutions, from financing to construction and maintenance, which make life easier for host countries.” The Indonesian minister of investment has said that doing business with China is easyNukila Evanty Beijing-based state-owned builder Citic Construction has expressed interest in developing 60 residential towers in Nusantara,…

Authors Ji Yeon Hong, associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan, and Leo Yang, a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, built a complex model to carry out their comparative analysis. The model showed that key provincial officials with ties to more influential central leaders – specifically members of the Politburo Standing Committee – were more likely to promote news coverage of corruption probes against peers from other provinces as part of factional rivalry. ‘Voice of China’ echoes Xi’s call to double…

Despite China’s professed commitment to stability on the Korean peninsula, its tolerance of North Korea’s nuclear programme undermines these claims, leading to criticism that China lacks credibility when advocating for strategic cooperation with the US or discussing security concerns in the Asia-Pacific region. Even when South Korea attempted to attain nuclear weapons back in the 1970s, the US stopped it after forgoing the total withdrawal of American troops from South Korea. While the US focuses on deterring North Korea to maintain stability on the Korean peninsula, China has consistently erred…