Author Archives: Rachel Wang

A Brief Guide to China’s Media Landscape – May 2014

Posted on 2014-05-21 by Rachel Wang

The table below shows mainland China’s most important websites, newspapers, and broadcast news organizations, together with numbers for website traffic, circulation and audience. The numbers are guesstimates based on media reports, listed companies’ public filings, media advertising rate cards, Alexa.com … Continue reading →

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A Brief Guide to China’s Media Landscape – February 2014

Posted on 2014-02-20 by Rachel Wang

The table below shows mainland China’s most important websites, newspapers, and broadcast news organizations, together with numbers for website traffic, circulation and audience. The numbers are guesstimates based on media reports, listed companies’ public filings, media advertising rate cards, Alexa.com … Continue reading →

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Starbucks price comparison after the CCTV attack

Posted on 2013-10-24 by Rachel Wang

On October 8, China Business News, a publication owned by SMG, a media congomerate controlled by the Shanghai city government, published a report attacking Starbucks’ high prices in China. On October 20, China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast a story targeting the … Continue reading →

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Big three Chinese telecom operators criticized for profiting from spam

Posted on 2013-10-24 by Rachel Wang

Beijing Times 京华时报 yesterday published an article (based on a report in the CCTV 1 program Focus Interview 焦点访谈) analyzing the profit chain of spam texts sent by China’s three leading telecommunication operators. According to the report, many spam texts are sent from numbers … Continue reading →

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Courier companies exposed selling delivery addresses to telemarketers

Posted on 2013-10-16 by Rachel Wang

Economic Information Daily 经济参考报, a business newspaper managed by Xinhua News Agency, published an investigative story on  the business of selling names, addresses and contact information extracted from the addresses of senders and recipients on courier packages packages. Courier (kuaidi 快递）services have … Continue reading →

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Infant formula wars: “National team” just a cheap gimmick

Posted on 2013-10-15 by Rachel Wang

On October 14, Caixin’s New Century weekly magazine 财新《新世纪》周刊 published a cover story entitled “The milk formula war”. The article argues that the “milk formula national team” (奶粉国家队), as a campaign launched by the government to hype certain local infant formula companies … Continue reading →

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