Category: China Observer

Beijing is believed to have long sought to make the yuan an international currency and, eventually, replace the U.S. dollar. However, a recent research...

Recently, Nidec, a Fortune 500 company with a 30-year presence in Dongguan, announced that its Chang’an Factory, the company’s first facility in China, will...

The shadow of the global COVID-19 pandemic has not completely disappeared, and now there’s the discovery of the Hantavirus. In the Atlantic, a polar...

In this extremely imbalanced supply-and-demand situation, the phenomenon of “sky-high bride prices” has emerged. In some rural areas, the average bride price has skyrocketed...

On May 5th, an X user, “Luo Xiang,” shared a firefighter’s leak. He said, “After I leaked the information yesterday, the authorities realized they...

The 2026 World Cup, hosted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, will kick off on June 11. However, according to reports from Chinese state...

Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz escalate again! On May 4, a large oil tanker, “JV INNOVATION,” owned by a Chinese shipping company, was...

Local government finances in China are facing a crisis of unprecedented scale. The public sector has seen delays in salaries payment, cuts in performance...

So what’s the real situation for most Chinese people? Data shows that about 560 million people in China are in a state of zero...