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Issue 440

WiC 440 (Apr 5, 2019)

A well trained country

Rail & Infrastructure, Talking Point In the decade that WiC has published, bullet trains have transformed…

It was almost exactly 10 years ago – on February 6 2009 – that WiC published its first Talking Point in our first issue. The focus was trains and ...

Category killer?

China Consumer China cracks down on ‘cosmeceutical’ products

“In their eyes we are still gullible sheep waiting to be killed.” So wrote Chinese blogger Hao Yu, also known as Dr Big Mouth, in a critical post ...

Feeling flat

Internet & Tech Worries in Wisconsin, but Foxconn’s factory in Guangzhou moves forward

“When elephants fight, the grass is trampled. Today, Canada is the grass.” That was the take from the Financial Times last weekend on the plight of ...

Reforms in the pipeline

Energy & Resources Telecoms model set to be replicated in a bid to reshape…

Many commentators questioned China’s commitment to opening up its telecoms market when the State Council said in 2014 it would create a new company ...

On the right track

Banking & Finance Inclusion in a key fixed income index is a milestone for…

Is that issuer from Hunan or Henan; Shanxi or Shaanxi? Pity the poor fund manager sitting at his desk in the American heartlands. After years of ...

Crossing the water

China Tourist New bridge brings a million people to Macau in first two…

Resentment at the smoking ban in Macau’s casinos smoulders on, it seems. We first wrote about the restrictions four years ago (see WiC260) but they ...

Finally, China saves the Earth

Entertainment Chinese New Year astronaut blockbuster set to break the box office…

Last year, Chinese cinemas took in Rmb5.8 billion ($913 million) in ticket sales during the first seven days of the Chinese New Year holiday – the ...

Blurred lines

Society Campaign against ‘sissy’ lifestyles turns to earrings

Chinese censors have a thing about actor Jing Boran’s earlobes. The same goes for at least two other male celebrities, Xiao Gui and Lin Yanjun. The ...

Not quite the ticket

Entertainment Why did Maoyan’s IPO debut so poorly this week?

Cats might be colour-blind, but they can see incredibly well in dim light and have a wider visual field than humans, thanks to the many ‘rod cells’ ...

Not singing praises

Economy New Oriental bosses lampooned by employees

It is not uncommon for Chinese companies to feature theatrical performances in their annual gatherings (see WiC438 for more background on the nianhui ...

Engine of growth

Auto Industry Geely in deal to boost use of Toyota’s hybrid technologies in…

They may be allies, straddling either side of the Pacific Ocean, but the US and Japan are adopting different approaches when it comes to technology ...

Time to give credit

Banking & Finance S&P finally gets a licence to rate local debt in China…

Downgrading its credit rating for US government debt to a level barely above junk won Dagong Global more headlines than credibility when it announced ...

Paternity test

Planet China Plenty of adults awake in a cold sweat after nightmares of…

Plenty of adults awake in a cold sweat after nightmares of being back at school, flunking their exams. So spare a thought for the fathers of a ...

Hoping for harmony

Cartoons Hoping for harmony

A long-running debate on Chinese social media about the differences between what the British say and what they mean is thought to have began with an ...

Big investor

Sino-File “For Sequoia what matters is to be first and to be…

Neil Shen, the boss of Sequoia China, discusses with the Financial Times how he has increased his firepower in the Chinese market through a new $8 ...

Wuhan’s wardrobe controversy

Cartoons Wuhan’s wardrobe controversy

Wuhan University has been making waves over the past week, but less because of its academic standards and more because of its cherry blossoms. The fuss ...

Around the bend

And Finally, Internet & Tech Xiaomi claims first with foldable phone screen, riling rival Royole

The world’s first mobile receiver with a touchscreen, known as IBM Simon, made its debut in 1992. But it was not until 2007, when Apple ...