Private lending auctions are common in the province's coastal towns - whoever offers to pay the highest rate gets the loan, which is taken from a pool of members' funds.
It's clear from the Chinese models on show at the auto show: you can’t clone innovation. The pursuit of foreign technology has come at the expense of domestic R&D.
Developers in the capital, where home buyers must put up at least 30% of a property's sale price, are winning customers by offering to defer that down payment.
No one feels at home in Lingshui, a provincial town with a street called “Waiting for Death,” hundreds of mah-jong addicts and BMW owners on annual visits to their abandoned parents.
The birth-control policy is a perfect example of social injustice - the rich can afford to pay the penalties and fines incurred for violating the policy.
The third part of Qin Hui's three-part series on the Myitsone dam focuses on the relationship between the Chinese and Burmese.
The factories using industrial gelatin to make pills were closed soon after CCTV reported the scandal, but the workers themselves had long avoided the pills.
Vancl lost its way after sales grew sixfold early in 2011 - a pile of mops and cookers taught the CEO that a shortage of stock is better than a surplus.
Civil servants used tax break and cheap land to lure Foxconn to Chengdu, but some of them are regretting the government's pledge to help recruit workers for the factory.
Tianjin is seeking to sell control of a major securities firm in a deal that highlights the debts taken on by the municipality as it rose up the regional growth table.
