PRC airlines carried 660 million passengers in 2019 before the pandemic, some 20 percent of the global total. Moving to become the largest aviation market, it faces twin challenges: scaling up domestic aircraft manufacturing and reducing emissions.
A prime vector of uncertainty, the US election and prospects of Washington’s China strategy after 5 November, are generating endless commentary and op-eds from the PRC media and geopolitics community.
Emerging in 2018, ‘institutional opening’ zhìdùxíng kāifàng 制度型开放 has risen as a trade and development priority. Now a constant at high-level conclaves such as the annual Two Sessions and the 2024 Third Plenum, the framework has more layers than meet the eye. Given mounting geopolitical and trade friction, it has become core to a reset of Beijing’s trade contract with the world.
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Beijing's cautious diplomacy in Gaza
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Beijing’s green aviation plans
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PRC views the US election: agog with indifference
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changing trade dynamics: ‘institutional opening’
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recent commentary
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traditional industryindustry subsidiesmeetings and ceremoniesNPC legislative agendadraft legislation and trendsgaspetroleumcoalnuclearrenewableshydrogenwindhydrosolarNEVsenergy storagegridelectricitypower sector reformenergy securityenergy transitiontwo highsdual controlcarbon neutrality...read more08 Nov 2024
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foreign exchange reservesfundsgoing global...read more07 Nov 2024
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Made in China 2025overcapacitystrategic and emerging industriesindustry subsidiesexportsUK/Europe...read more07 Nov 2024
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political trendsmeetings and ceremoniesaccountabilitystability maintenancepetitionscitizen participationlabour relationsregional coordination...read more06 Nov 2024
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Ren Zepingmacroeconomist and Vice President of the China Private Economy Research Association, Chief Economist at Zhongyuan Bank
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Cai FangChinese Academy of Social Sciences academician; CASS National Think Tank chief expert
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Tu XinquanUIBE (University of International Business and Economics) WTO Research Institute director
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