The Chinese central bank, says Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan, is “neither a god nor a magician.”

The defensiveness is understandable. Here’s the problem: Mr. Zhou is part of a political system set up to protect information, not to share it. Read More »

China is aging and urbanizing. Its productivity rate is slowing and it still favors males. That’s all according to new data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics, which gives a glimpse at China’s 1.37 billion in numbers. Read More »

The ranks of China’s Big V’s are getting smaller, and so is the appeal of a social media site once considered indispensable in the country.

Below are five of the most influential users to have their Weibo accounts closed since Xi Jinping took office. Read More »

Manufacturing in the world’s second-largest economy hit another speed bump in February as China remains weighed down by overcapacity and weak demand. Read More »

A surprise loosening step by the People’s Bank of China, which announced Monday it would lower reserve requirements on banks, left many investors feeling Chinese officials had gone back on recent promises to keep the currency strong. Read More »

Four Hong Kong booksellers who had vanished and later reappeared in Chinese police custody said they illegally sold books to customers in mainland China, according to televised interviews and a Chinese news report. Read More »

Movie fans in China had been eagerly awaiting the moment when Leonardo DiCaprio would receive his long-due Oscar statue. But China’s online streaming sites rained on their parade Monday by cancelling at least two Academy Awards online broadcasts — and implementing a 15-minute time delay on another. Read More »

The People’s Bank of China announced a 0.5 percentage point cut in the capital that bank are required to keep on reserve with the central bank, effective March 1. Here are some economists’ reactions to the latest move, edited for length and style. Read More »

The case of a Beijing judge gunned down late last week – the latest in a slew of physical attacks against the profession — has triggered horror and introspection among China’s legal community, which is already facing problems of morale. Read More »

By Yiyi Lu

As China’s anticorruption campaign enters into its fourth year, the importance of inspection teams in catching corrupt officials has become obvious. Read More »