The Financial Times leads it’s China business coverage with Wal-Mart’s green push into China. The world’s largest retailer is to convene a meeting in October involving around 1,000 Chinese suppliers to set out goals for significant reductions in the environmental impact of its vast supply chain. Blu Skye, an environmental consultancy, is as...

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

In an interview that should be required reading for anyone looking to risk money beyond China’s seaboard, William Dodson, Managing Director of Silk Road Advisors, a China-focused strategic management consultancy, tells The China Perspective about changing foreign investment patterns and government incentives for investment in China’s 2nd- and 3rd-tier cities.

At a forum last month to discuss China’s energy strategy, investors were told US$2.32 billion would need to be invested to 2020. According to Beijing News, new energy will be the focus of investment, and a new energy use tax will encourage the sector to keep one eye on the environment.

China’s pharmaceutical sector is growing rapidly, driven in large part by surging exports. But as Economic Information Daily reports, shrinking profit margins are likely to lead to a major industry restructuring.