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I'm 25 and felt suffocated by city life — so I spent 2 months in a youth retirement village in China

Tue, 12/03/2024 - 19:17

Tech Insider : Travel, Business, Economy

Man wearing black hat sitting near trees. — Ren Binglin says spending two months at a youth retirement village in China changed him.
Ren Binglin

Careers, Travel, as-told-to, China, balanced-worklife, Beijing, Burnout

See the Chinese cargo ship suspected of sabotaging critical undersea cables between 4 NATO countries

Wed, 11/27/2024 - 19:03

Tech Insider : Business, Politics

Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is anchored — Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is anchored in waters near Denmark as it faces an investigation into suspected sabotage of undersea cables.
Mikkel Berg Pedersen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

Military & Defense, China, china-shipping, undersea-cable, undersea-cables, Chinese, Baltic

Almost half of all major Chinese cities are sinking, study says

Sun, 04/21/2024 - 06:20

China — Flooding in Zhuozhou city in China's Hebei province, August 9, 2023.
JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images

Science, news-uk, weekend-uk, China, subsidence, Beijing, Shanghai

China may be shaking out of its slump, and its economy could grow 5% this year after a surprising first-quarter performance, BofA says

Fri, 04/19/2024 - 11:02

Tech Insider : Economy

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 24: A woman crosses a pedestrian crossing in wet weather in the Shanghai's financial district (Lujiazui) on February 24, 2018 in Shanghai, China. — SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 24: A woman crosses a pedestrian crossing in wet weather in the Shanghai's financial district (Lujiazui) on February 24, 2018 in Shanghai, China.
Vincent Isore/IP3

economy, Markets, china-economy, china-economy-and-markets, china-stocks, bank-of-america, china-property-crisis

The freefall in China's home prices continued in March as Beijing struggles to stem real estate crisis

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:05

Local residents look at a model of a Poly Real Estate Group housing project at a real estate showroom on May 25, 2023 in Sanya, Hainan Province of China. — Local residents look at a model of a Poly Real Estate Group housing project at a real estate showroom on May 25, 2023 in Sanya, Hainan Province of China.
VCG/Getty Images

Real Estate, Markets, China, china-real-estate, china-property-crisis, china-housing-market, china-housing

The Moscow-Beijing alliance is here to stay because partnering with China is the only way Putin can sustain his conflict with the West, think tank says

Sun, 04/14/2024 - 08:31

Tech Insider : Economy

putin xi china russia — Reuters/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

economy, russia-ukraine-war, russia-china, russia-china-relations, russia-economy, Putin, western-sanctions

China's real-estate slump is about to get worse

Wed, 03/06/2024 - 11:29

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

People walk past an Evergrande Group residential complex called Evergrande Palace in Beijing on January 30, 2024. — Capital Economics forecast tumbling real-estate construction in the years ahead for China.
Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images

economy, Markets, Markets, economy, real-estate, China, china-economy

China is the only major economy dealing with deflation

Fri, 03/01/2024 - 10:13

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

crowd shanghai china — Chinese national flags are seen as tourists crowd along the Nanjing Pedestrian Road, a main shopping area, on a national holiday in Shanghai on October 4, 2014.
REUTERS/Aly Song

economy, Markets, economy, China, china-outlook, china-economy, Beijing

China's crashing birthrate will leave millions of teachers jobless in the coming years

Wed, 02/14/2024 - 09:54

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

Chinese students at school with a teacher — China could face a surplus of nearly 2 million teachers in the coming years.
Nik Wheeler / Contributor

economy, Markets, economy, China, Demographics, china-outlook, Population

China's economic turmoil won't stop its manufacturing dominance

Mon, 02/12/2024 - 13:17

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission CMC, extends Spring Festival greetings to the country's military veterans when attending a gala held by the CMC for retired military officers of Beijing-based troops in Beijing, capital of China, Jan.

economy, Markets, economy, China, Markets, china-outlook, china-economy

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