Category: Economics & Trade

Shaanxi is home to the largest coal reserves in China, China Northwest Airlines, the Terracotta Warriers and a budding tourism industry. It is a province rich in minerals, but short on infrastructure, and has recently announced new regulations in an attempt to persuade foreign investors that it is worth investing in central China. We take a good look at what Shaanxi has to offer.

Taiwan is establishing a huge manufacturing base in mainland China to take advantage of the mainland’s weak currency plus low land and labour costs. Yet, despite what you might hear to the contrary, direct official shipping and air transport links between Taiwan and China could be a long time coming as far away as the turn of the century, according to some well informed observers close to the action…

Western estimates suggest that 11 per cent of global textile output carries a "Made in China" label. We profile one of China’s most important foreign exchange earners the textile industry, in this special report.

In the first of our monthly series of profiles of China’s hotels, we talked to Marie Barrymore at the Jing Guang New World Hotel in Beijing ? the tallest building in China ? about what the hotel has to offer.