China’s five-year work plan is striking for several reasons: the high degree of continuity from five years ago, the push by Beijing for Chinese companies to assert themselves globally, the strong hand of the state in areas of the economy considered integral to social stability, and the potential for serious debate over several of the redistributive aspects of the plan.

China’s lawmaking body, the National People’s Congress (NPC), opened its annual session last weekend to great fanfare.  Watching the delegates pile in and ou

My blood ran cold when I read about how China is tracking and detaining foreign journalists. (The New York Times, “China Tracks Foreign Journalists,” March 6)

Relax, America. Chinese math whizzes and Indian engineers aren't stealing your kids' future. Anybody seeking signs of American decline in the early 21st

China's government wants to fight inflation and redistribute income, giving households a bigger slice of the pie. Higher interest rates would achieve both.

The West is guilty of wishful thinking when it excitedly imagines people-powered revolt in the Arab world spreading to China. There is dissatisfaction in China.

The recent general consensus in the government, business and academic circles is that the 12th Five-Year Guideline marks a new historic start for China’s econo

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan send congratulatory messages on the launch of China-US Focus, a news website that they believe will enhance the bilateral relationship and present new ideas and new solutions for the challenges ahead.

China has promulgated five-year plans since 1953 and experienced  a fast growth rate of 9.2 percent in the First Five-Year Plan period (1953-57). The plans wer

At the starting year of the 12th Five-Year Guideline, let us look back to the last Five-Year Guideline which was intended to promote institution advancement, sustainable society and so on, and see the challenges we are still facing now.