The renminbi’s rapid gains in recent days should have quashed speculation that the People’s Bank has reintroduced a dollar peg. China is likely to come under significant external pressure to keep the...

Property developers in China are facing a grim year ahead, with a likely slump in project starts set to drag on broader economic growth. The sector should nonetheless be able to avoid a collapse...

Households in China are expecting consumer prices to continue rising rapidly. But with businesses reporting weakening demand, falling capacity utilisation and rising inventories, that could soon...

Neither rising wages nor growing fears about the global outlook seem to be causing any difficulties for China’s exporters. Meanwhile, the latest import data are consistent with a strong pick-up in...