Domestic plasma TV makers are eroding the market share onjce enjoyed by foreign giants in the domestic market. China Business News takes a look at the sector through the divergent fortunes of Hisense Kelon and Panasonic

Monday's devastating earthquake in southwest China again leads coverage of China in the main newspapers. The China Daily added that the earthquake will further complicate authorities' macroeconomic policymaking at a time when growing yuan lending is already raising fears of further inflation. China's annualized growth in yuan lending dropped slig...

Rising raw materials costs are putting pressure on automakers to increase prices or go bust. But low consolidation in the industry means it is still a buyer’s market, Shanghai Securities News reports

Unsurprisingly, most China-focused news outlets provide extensive coverage of the devastating earthquake that hit Sichuan province Monday, killing at least 10,000 people.The Wall Street Journal reported that Shanghai stocks fell more than 3% in the minutes after the market opened in the wake of the earthquake, before climbing again after the “initial k...

The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the South China Morning Post all led their online China business coverage with the release of April inflation numbers by the National Statistics Bureau. The WSJ relies on an AP feed, while the FT gets its wire news via Reuters. China's consumer price index rose by a near decade-high 8.5% year-on-year in Ap...

The Wall Street Journal leads its China coverage with an article on China’s increasingly complex inflation problem. Policymakers are worried because price rises have begun to spread from food, where they were previously concentrated, to other goods and services. Although headline inflation declined from its peak of 8.7% in February to 8.3% in March, th...

External and internal factors have combined to create tough times for China’s textile industry. Rumors are circulating that the government plans to offer more support, the Shanghai Securities News reports.

China overtook South Korea this year as the world's number one shipbuilder by order tonnage. By all other measures it has a long way to go, Shanghai Securities News reports

China's luxury goods market was worth US$8 billion last year. Xinhua reports that it still has a long way to go.

The tenth Jinjiang shoe fair was a disapointment for local shoemakers. China Business News takes a look at an industry under pressure