China Merchants Property Co (CMPC) (000024.SZ) said Monday that it had received approval from the securities regulator to issue US$1.17 billion (RMB8 billion) additional shares to purchase land and fund new property projects, the Oriental Morning Post reported. The company plans to acquire six land plots from its controlling shareholder, China Merchants Shek...

China’s stock market dropped 5.42% on March 27 on expected government intervention to fight inflation and lower corporate profits. In the National Business Daily, Ye Tan argues that the government should not put the nation’s stock markets at risk in the hope of saving the economy

Almost US$13 billion in foreign capital has been invested in new China tourism projects this year. Zheng Li of the China Securities Journal looks at the inflow and at the government’s plans to attract and regulate investment in the sector

As expected, the value of the yuan against the euro dominated discussions at Wednesday’s China-EU Summit. In the lead-up to the big day, China Business News asked some experts from the China side whether an undervalued yuan really was responsible for China’s growing trade surplus with Europe

Silos in China’s financial sector are slowly being eroded and financial conglomerates are set to emerge. As the China Securities Journal reports, better cooperation between the sector’s disparate regulators will be required if the financial sector is to cope with these new financial giants.

Government efforts to cool China’s property sector are forcing developers to look to new funding channels. Shanghai Greenland Group president Zhang Yuliang tells China Business News how his group is responding to the changing macro-economic reality.