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Wang Huiyao: CIIE boosts China’s ‘dual circulation’ development pattern
China's third International Import Expo (CIIE), which will be held from November 5 to 10 in Shanghai makes it clear that China's new "dual-circulation" development strategy by no means implies that the country will stop further opening up. On Tuesday night, Chinese president Xi Jinping delivered a speech via a video during the opening ceremony. This shows the importance the Chinese government attaches to the event as well as China's opening up efforts.
November 04 , 2020 -
David Blair: Foreign capital flows can’t be allowed to create asset bubbles
China's capital markets are now very attractive due to the nation's success in fighting the pandemic while also, almost uniquely, sticking to a prudent monetary policy.
November 02 , 2020 -
Harvey Dzodin: The 14th Five Year Plan: Compass for China’s continued success
When I was growing up in Detroit in the 1950s when it was the prosperous global automobile capital, parents told us to eat all our food because children in China were poor and hungry. And in 1953, the year of China's first Five Year Plan (1953 - 1957) for economic and social development, poverty was indeed the norm. In 1953, China's population was 583 million with its per capita GDP of $54.
October 30 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Planning for the future in five-year cycles
The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) is high on the agenda of the ongoing Fifth Plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, as it will set the economic and development targets extending to 2035.
October 29 , 2020 -
China joins WHO’s Covid-19 vaccine program
China will take part in a World Health Organization-backed effort to provide a coronavirus vaccine to developing nations, stepping in to fill a void in global health leadership after U.S. President Donald Trump spurned the program.
October 09 , 2020
