Category Archives: Business and the Economy

The “tower stands empty”: Q Park as a microcosm of China’s faltering animation industry

Posted on 2013-01-18 by Barry van Wyk

Q Park in Qingdao,  Shandong province was meant to be a flashy new shot-in-the-arm industrial hub for the animation industry in China. But today the front page of the Qingdao Daily laments the sorry state of Q Park with a reference to a line from an … Continue reading →

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China’s leading entrepreneurs of 2012

Posted on 2012-12-31 by Barry van Wyk

The entrepreneur that makes it big in China makes it very big, reaching rock star levels. The Entrepreneurs’ Daily (企业家日报) today is one of a handful of Chinese papers that published a retrospective of the year of 2012. As befits its business … Continue reading →

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The Chinese government and social media

Posted on 2012-12-20 by Barry van Wyk

Sina Weibo claims to have more than 400 million users, and its influence and power are without doubt. Yet the Chinese government and all its myriad bodies and institutions are likewise getting in on the act, not just by means … Continue reading →

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Xi Jinping does his own Southern Tour

Posted on 2012-12-12 by Barry van Wyk

The message today is loud and clear – “No halt in opening up, no stopping reform”: 北京日报 东莞时报 晶报 南方日报 青年报 人民日报 深圳晚报 信息时报 中国青年报 China’s newspapers today are in a festive mood because China is forging ahead with reform, … Continue reading →

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Pandemonium on China’s stock market

Posted on 2012-11-28 by Barry van Wyk

There’s pandemonium on China’s newspaper front pages today: the stock market is falling even faster than the sliding temperatures. So there’s graphics of bears and plunging arrows galore. The Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报) from Guangdong chose today to dispense with any graphics … Continue reading →

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Aircraft on the Liaoning and other stories from China’s newspapers today

Posted on 2012-11-26 by Barry van Wyk

Most of the front pages of China’s newspapers today revelled in the display of aircraft landing on China’s new aircraft carrier. Scroll down to see a gallery. But there was also much else on China’s front pages to enjoy today, … Continue reading →

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Hotly debated at the 18th Party Congress: “What does a fairer China really mean?”

Posted on 2012-11-12 by Barry van Wyk

Various newspapers in China today published headlines that are supposedly based on hot debates at the ongoing 18th Party Congress on the question of how to create a fairer and more equal China. The debates on this issue have come … Continue reading →

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Q&A with author David Wolf on Huawei, ZTE and China’s telecoms industry

Posted on 2012-11-12 by Barry van Wyk

Beijing-based business strategist David Wolf is the author of a new book on China’s telecoms industry: Making the Connection: The Peaceful Rise of China’s Telecommunications Giants. The book tells the story of how previously unknown companies have emerged from one of … Continue reading →

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Maiden flight of new Chinese stealth fighter, definitely “not copied” from foreign design

Posted on 2012-11-02 by Barry van Wyk

At 10:30 am on Wednesday this week, China’s second fifth generation fighter plane, the J-31, flew for the first time. The Jinling Evening Newsfrom Nanjing in Jiangsu province today proudly displays the new fighter on its front page, and proclaims that China is now … Continue reading →

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Ningbo will ‘resolutely not have the PX project’

Posted on 2012-10-29 by Barry van Wyk

Unmentioned in almost every other newspaper in the country, but right in the middle of the front page of the Ningbo Daily (宁波日报) today is a brief announcement: Ningbo will resolutely not have the PX project. After protests all of last week against an expansion project … Continue reading →

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