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By Arthur Kroeber
We had the somewhat qualified pleasure last week of attending the spring meeting of the International Institute of Finance — the assemblage of the great and the good of the world banking industry— which this year was held in Beijing.
Although as usual for such events there was a certain amount of high-level pabulum, [...]
Read more: The west should heed advice from China’s bank regulators
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By Arthur Kroeber
Since 2006, financial reforms in China have been stuck in a rut. But for a number of reasons – most simply because Beijing now has little choice – we are now convinced that financial reform is going to be a far bigger part of the China story over the next three years.
The basic [...]
Read more: Pace of financial reform will only accelerate in China
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By Tom Miller and Will Freeman
Beijingers call the hot and sticky months of July and August the “sauna” season. On muggy summer evenings, sensible locals sweat it out in the capital’s old lanes with sticks of fatty lamb kebabs and cold bottles of Yanjing beer.
But real men roll up their T-shirts under their armpits, ditch [...]
Read more: Trial by firewater: Baijiu market gives west a lesson in Chinese brand positioning
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By Tom Miller
Beijing and Shanghai are currently the only two Chinese cities that have unquestionable “megacity” status, with populations well in excess of 10m.
But over the next 15 years, 60 new cities with populations of 1.5m-5m are likely to sprout in China, including six new cities – Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu and Wuhan – [...]
Read more: Wuhan’s renewal shows ambitions and challenges of China’s urban planning
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By Kam Wing Chan
Kam Wing Chan, professor of geography at the University of Washington, is an expert on Chinese population statistics and is a guest contributor to the Dragonbeat blog this week.
How big are Chinese cities? That depends on how you measure them.
Back in 2005, Time magazine proclaimed that Chongqing had become “the largest city [...]