In September, China's consumer price index (CPI) went up by 3.1% year-on-year, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. Consumer prices grew by 3% in cities and 3.3% in rural areas. Food prices went up by 6.1%, while non-food prices increased by 1.6%. The prices of consumer goods went up by 3.1% and the prices […]

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China's money supply of cash in circulation and all deposits, the M2, was RMB107.74 trillion ($17.63 trillion) at the end of September, up 14.2% year-on-year, according to data released by the People's Bank of China (PBOC). In addition, China's new yuan loans totaled RMB7.28 trillion in the first three quarters, up RMB557 billion compared with […]

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The author is head of China research at UBS Tao Wang China's CPI inflation picked up from 2.6% in August to 3.1% in September, higher than expectation. Although the contribution from base effect tapered off by 0.3%, sequential momentum of CPI picked up from 0.5% to 0.8% in September on seasonal and holiday demand. Food […]

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Germany-based EMD Millipore has won a patent infringement lawsuit in China that will help the company go after distributors around the world that continue to supply the infringing products. EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA in Germany, announced that the Beijing Higher Court has affirmed a lower court's decision against RephiLe Bioscience […]

American popular fashion chain Forever 21 has opened a new store at the Coastal City shopping mall in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen. This is the brand's third store in mainland China, following the two opened in Beijing and Shanghai. With a retail area of over 2,016 square meters, the new Forever 21 Coastal City […]

Chinese e-commerce website JD.com has made a monetary commitment to support higher education in China. The company and Renmin University of China recently held a donation ceremony during which JD.com and its CEO Liu Qiangdong both donated to establish scholarships at the school in Beijing. The scholarship funded by JD.com aims to support high academic […]

Recent machinations in China suggest the Chinese telecommunications companies may be near the end of monopolizing their sector. Xu Kunlin, director of the bureau of price supervision and anti-monopoly at the National Development and Reform Commission, revealed to local media that the commission has been urging China Telecom and China Unicom to continue to rectify […]