Reforms to the PRC social credit system aim to address the persistent lack of access to finance and to strengthen the flow of goods, services, and capital within the domestic economy.
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31 Oct 2025
In rapidly evolving economies, a joined-up national market is taken for granted. Yet in the PRC, the past two decades+ of turbocharged growth are often credited to the very absence of such integration.
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29 Oct 2025
For PRC industrial ‘mother machines’ to transition from mere scale to genuine strength, Beijing must integrate standards, pilot programs, finance, industrial clusters, and AI. This transformation also hinges on firms successfully developing CNC tech and other core components.
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02 Oct 2025
Under pressure of US disdain for multilateral trade norms—global trade is showing signs of breaking into blocs. Beijing is responding with unilateral moves, both opening and closing. It has rolled out a sanctions and export-control regime for ‘dual use’ goods and strategic tech, and passed trade laws with extraterritorial scope, learning from the US model. At the same time, under the slogan of ‘unilateral opening-up,’ it is making moves that expand Beijing’s circle of like-minded partners, including visa-free travel and lowering restrictions on foreign direct investment.
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26 Sep 2025
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getting credit to a joined-up market
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promise of a joined-up market
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betting on the mothers of all machines
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where does the PRC fit in the new logic of global trade?
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growth modelovercapacitystrategic and emerging industriesenergy transitiontransportscience and technologytech transfer, R&DNEVscarbon neutrality...read more21 Oct 2025
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logisticsinfrastructuretransportimportsexportsUS/Canada...read more20 Oct 2025
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growth modelMade in China 2025overcapacitystrategic and emerging industrieshealth insurancepensionsocial insurancescience and technology...read more18 Oct 2025
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strategic and emerging industriesenergy transitionspatial planningtransportenergy storageNEVselectricity...read more16 Oct 2025
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Yang WeiminMember, 13th CPPCC National Committee’s SC; a deputy director of its Economic Commission, 十三届全国政协常委、经济委员会副主任
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