January 2012 Issue
World | by Li Jia | China in the WTO
Trading Places
The campaign to join the World Trade Organization was the most powerful external force behind China’s unprecedented economic liberalization. But now, with reform losing momentum, has China outgrown WTO influence?
World | by News China Magazine
Commercial Comfort Zone
Have dynamic and far-reaching economic reforms, initiated in order to qualify China for entry into the WTO, given way to complacency on all sides? NewsChina investigates.
Society | by Xue Yumeng, Xu Zhihui | Tax Riots
Taking Sides
Rioting in the Zhejiang township of Zhili has unnerved the local government, awakening Chinese administrators to the risks of using taxation to drive small-scale businesses out of the marketplace
Society | by Yang Zhenglian | Mental Health Law
Psych Revaluation
A Chongqing man whose employers had declared insane has won a 13-year court battle to have the decision overturned. What consequences will this landmark case have?
World | by Li Jia | China in the WTO
Crying Wolf
While openness to both foreign and domestic investment has led to prosperity in many industries in China, the prospect of increased competition still has the power to spook
Visual Report | by News China Magazine
Mule Logistics
Horseback transportation of goods used to dominate ancient China’s agricultural society. Today horse-drawn carts remain in use in remote mountain regions.
Politics | by Yu Xiaodong | Cultural Reform
A Hundred Flowers More
China’s authorities are attempting to kick-start a cultural renaissance, but culture itself has never been the problem
Sports | by Tang Lei | Sports: Basketaball
Hoopes Away From Home
Higher pay and better competition has recently attracted Taiwanese basketball players across the straits to compete in the mainland CBA
International | by Li Jia | Chinese Investment in Europe
Money Talks
While investment may speak louder than politics, the business communities from both China and Europe will have to adapt in order to fill the widening gaps in the eurozone
Commentary | by Zhou Dawei
Do We Really Need to Fingerprint 1.3bn People?
The new biometric ID card scheme needs serious consideration before we impose it on an unprepared nation
Culture | by Yu Hua, Yi Xiaohe | Art Market
Masterful Mock-ups
Counterfeiting, driven by booms in speculation and investment, has now become endemic in China’s nascent art market
Economy | by Yu Xiaodong | Real Estate Industry
Safe as Houses?
A year and a half into the government’s housing market regulation scheme, property prices have at last begun to decline, but tensions remain high
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