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

Chinese shipbuilders are facing a credit crunch following the US sub-prime crisis. Chinese banks do not offer the financing products they require, writes the Shanghai Securities News

The sub-prime mortgage crisis has considerably worsened economic conditions for companies in the US. China's vice minister of commerce is urging Chinese companies to take advantage and buy-up the most vulnerable, China Business News writes

China’s property market has been grinding slowly along for the last six months. May is likey to be a crossroads, writes the China Securities Journal