China added MP Materials and USA Rare Earth, as well as eight other US entities it said are linked to the US military to its export control list, reports Reuters. This comes in shortly after Washington placed several Chinese companies under restrictions this month. Aveox, a motor manufacturer for mission-critical applications, was also among those placed on […]
Category: Politics & Society
China’s universities are undertaking a massive reshuffling of their academic offerings, reports the South China Morning Post. The country is culling thousands of so-called obsolete degrees in favor of new, tech-focused programmes. Between 2021 and 2025, China’s higher education institutions revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programmes while introducing 10,200 new ones, meaning that more than […]
Chinese Leader Xi Jinping will visit North Korea next Monday and Tuesday, reports the South China Morning Post. At the invitation of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un, Xi will pay a state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from June 8 to 9, according to a statement from the International Department of the Central Committee of the […]
China has reported a second consecutive decline in the number of students sitting the country’s national university entrance exams, reports the South China Morning Post. This comes as a graduate jobs crunch leads many teenagers to decide against pursuing an academic degree. A total of 12.9 million students have registered for this year’s National Higher Education Entrance […]
China is set to implement a landmark regulation next month that aims to protect the basic rights of its rapidly growing cohort of older workers, reports Caixin. The move, analysts say, will significantly reshape relations between employers and senior staff, but could also drive-up business costs and trigger a temporary hiring contraction for older employees. The […]