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Thursday, 5 June 2025

How Bad Is China’s Economy? The Data Needed to Answer Is Vanishing

Beijing has stopped publishing hundreds of statistics, making it harder to know what’s going on in the country

Rebecca Feng

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Jason Douglas

May 4, 2025 9:00 pm ET

Not long ago, anyone could comb through a wide range of official data from China. Then it started to disappear.

Land sales measures, foreign investment data and unemployment indicators have gone dark in recent years. Data on cremations and a business confidence index have been cut off. Even official soy sauce production reports are gone.

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https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-data-missing-096cac9a

Thursday, 13 April 2023

China Is Facing a Moment of Truth About Its Low Retirement Age

A decades-old policy that lets women retire as early as 50 and men at 60 is becoming untenable as a wave of retirees looms

Guo Jinyi retired at the age of 50 last year. Some say China may finally take steps to raise its retirement age.PHOTO: GUO FAMILY

By Liyan Qi

April 11, 2023 10:00 am ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-facing-a-moment-of-truth-about-its-low-retirement-age-5ed9b57f

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

WSJ: China’s Forgotten Premier Steps Out of Xi’s Shadow as Economic Fixer

Li Keqiang helps press the president to dial back policies that have contributed to the economy’s slowdown

By Lingling Wei

May 11, 2022 9:55 am ET

Premier Li Keqiang, left, and President Xi Jinping at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing last year. MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

For years, President Xi Jinping has sidelined China’s second most powerful political figure, Premier Li Keqiang. Now, Mr. Li is re-emerging as a force in his own right, a potential counterbalance atop the Chinese government that hasn’t been seen for nearly a decade.

With China mired in its worst economic funk in recent memory, Mr. Li is helping press China’s authoritarian leader to dial back some measures that steered the country away from Western-style capitalism and contributed to China’s economic slowdown, according to government officials and advisers close to decision-making.

Under Mr. Li’s influence, those people said, Beijing recently eased a regulatory crackdown on private technology firms, loosened lending to property developers and home buyers, and acted to help some manufacturers resume production when much of China has been forced into lockdowns by Mr. Xi’s zero-Covid approach.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-premier-li-keqiang-xi-jinping-11652277107