China’s top planning authority NDRC plans to regulate prices for private tutoring. The NDRC announced on Monday that in the future it will take a closer look at the price range for private tutoring and the operating costs of the providers, as well as at salaries of employed teachers. According to the statement issued by […]
US special climate envoy John Kerry’s talks in China ended on Friday without a result. Chinese officials had wanted to make it clear to the US government that “it is impossible to win China’s cooperation on climate change while taking an anti-Chinese stance on key issues,” Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Beijing […]
The German industry wants a red line for dealing with China and its economic policy. “Anyone who wants to continue to benefit from free access to our market must adhere to basic rules and also open up their own market,” Siegfried Russwurm, president of the industry association BDI, told German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur. He […]
Stephan Kneipp is Elaris‘ new COO. Elaris, based in Rhineland-Palatinate, is a distributor of models made by Chinese manufacturer Dorcen. Previously, Kneipp was Head of Digital Ventures and Data-Driven Business at the Powertrain Solutions division of Bosch. Dominik Lembke has been appointed Director of Product Development at Svolt in August. Lembke is to bring the […]
In China, big companies are outdoing each other with big donations right now. Alibaba set the bar with the equivalent of 13 billion euros – two-thirds of its last annual profit. Our team in Beijing has been investigating whether the money is really benefiting “general prosperity,” as state and party head Xi Jinping has recently […]
Car sales in China fell significantly in August. According to data from the manufacturers’ association CAAM, the number of vehicles sold last month fell 22 percent from the previous month. The news comes just days after industry body China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) announced that the number of vehicles sold in August fell 13 percent […]
Elementary school students in Guangzhou receive a medal at the start of the school year. The new school year started on September 1st. In some provinces, children of unvaccinated parents are not yet allowed back to classrooms. But children between the ages of 12 and 17 are also still barred from attending classes in some […]
To make housing more affordable in China’s cities, housing rents will be allowed to increase by no more than five percent annually in the future. “New urban residents and young people have worked for a relatively short time and have little income, so their ability to buy homes and pay rent is weak,” Vice Housing […]
Linda Gao is the new general manager of automotive company Inalfa Roof Systems. She previously spent six years establishing Inalfa’s business in China. Gao has worked in the automotive industry for more than 20 years and in her new role is expected to lead the company’s transformation program as a blueprint for long-term growth plans […]
China’s table tennis player Zhao Shuai (26) won the gold medal at the Paralympics in Tokyo. For Zhao, the victory is a triple. He previously won the C8 singles at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and defended his title in Rio four years later. Zhao manages to do all this without his left arm. He lost […]
