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...

China’s textile industry reported remarkable profits last year given its struggles with the soaring yuan, higher production costs and slashed export tax rebates. Analysts put the sector's success down to stronger domestic demand largely offsetting lost revenues from export markets. Wang Shunchao and Winny Wang report in the Shanghai Daily that the trend is expected to continue throughout this year