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Looking to the provinces

China’s major cities are teeming with hotels, but occupancy rates continue to improve. So competition is now heating up in the provincial centres.

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Business Economics & Trade

Austerity measures relax as controls take effect

Consultant Batey Burn assesses the reasons behind Beijing’s renewed spirit of economic reform and growth

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Business Economics & Trade

Restricting practices

Reforms are sweeping through China’s state banking sector. We look at the increasingly commercial activities of the banks in a changing regulatory structure.

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Business Economics & Trade

A painful transition

Market forces and foreign influence may be helping to modernise China’s textiles industry but they are also creating extensive overcapacity.

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One to watch

In just seven years Switzerland’s substantial bilateral trade surplus with China has been turned into a deficit. We look at how Swiss companies are waking up to the challenge.