There is a great article today by Sky Canaves (great name, also) in the Wall Street Journal looking at the rise and rise of Ping An Insurance from a humble bicycle insurer in Shenzhen in 1988 to the leading light in China's effort to develop financial conglomerates to rival the world's biggest.As the government breaks down silos between banking, insu...

Revised Guidelines on Foreign Investment in the real estate sector were released by the central government earlier this month. Qiu Ming writes in the Oriental Morning Post the effect is likely to be minimal, although luxury property transactions could take a hit

Energy was in the headlines this week as the draft of China's first energy law continued its slow progress through government. The law was supposed to be finalized by the end of last year and it can’t come soon enough.The lack of progress mirrors the lack of progress China has made on a disparate raft of new energy regulations and targets introduce...

Who says inflation can’t kill? As Jamil Anderlini writes in the Financial Times, three people were killed and 31 injured in a stampede at a Carrefour supermarket in the western Chinese city of Chongqing over the weekend as shoppers slugged it out over five-litre bottles of rapeseed oil going at a 20% discount.The promotion came after wholesale vegetabl...

The future looks bright for China’s brokerages after tough tinmes in recent years. Zhang Zhen looks at the playing field for the Shanghai Financial News and concludes that brokerages will need to lessen their reliance on broking income

Comments from Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of the National People's Congress, on Wednesday that the world’s fourth-largest economy would reduce its holdings of US dollar assets contributed to falling stock markets in Asia Thursday, the Financial Times reported. The dollar tumbled to a record low against the euro and a basket of major currencies overn...

In the China Business News, Xiong Jianfeng casts an eye over a gathering of academics at Tsinghua University last week to discuss inflationary pressure in China. Despite general concerns, some academics called for calm over inflation figures, claiming high inflation will be short-lived and could help stabilize structural imbalances in China's economy