In President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, he called this “our generation’s Sputnik moment,” a reference to the era when the U.S. space program p

At an executive meeting of the State Council on May 18, China’s key policymakers discussed the Three Gorges Follow-up Plan, a wide-reaching group of policies i

Professor Ken Liberthal and Wang Changjiang discuss China's political development and prospects of political reform.

China has gone through an extraordinary economic transformation over the last 30 years. This transformation has remade the face of coastal China. It's now spilling over into the interior and it's raised, literally, hundreds of millions of people to an unprecedented level of affluence.

Chinese growth is on a downward path.  Gross domestic product increased 11.9% in the first quarter last year, and the rate of increase has declined every quart

China’s economic growth will start declining around 2015, or between the end of the 12th Five Year Plan and the start of the 13th Five Year Plan, according to

Three years have passed since China introduced legislation confirming the public’s right to access environmental information. But both experts and members of t

China's economic performance is a subject of heated debate. Admirers see in China a country which has been growing at double digits and has lifted 500 milli

The National Bureau of Statistics recently highlighted some significant results from China’s 6th National Population Census which point to major structural cha

On April 28, 2011, the National Bureau of Statistics hosted a press conference to release key figures from the 6th National Census. These figures have shocked a