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Business Economics & Trade

The medicine men

Medicine consumption in China is low by world standards but social changes and a new medical insurance system should transform the market.

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Business Economics & Trade

Gold fights back

China has become the world’s second largest platinum consumer after Japan, a development that has stung the gold sector to take action.

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Business Economics & Trade

People pressure

Local residents and the media are becoming bolder in their criticism of property developers as they witness the destruction of the ancient metropolis of Beijing.

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Business Economics & Trade

Bridging the gap

Huge amounts of money are being spent on infrastructure projects in China’s poor hinterland in yet another attempt to arrest the widening disparity in prosperity between the country’s east and west regions.

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Business Economics & Trade

Special treatment

Forty industrial zones have been established in Shanghai, each with differing standards of infrastructure and its own package of incentives.