A weekly round-up of top business and financial news from China's leading financial magazine, Caixin, produced and hosted by the Sinica Podcast's Kaiser Kuo, featuring full stories from Caixin and conversations with Caixin writers and editors.
Today, SupChina introduces the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the week’s news. We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
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Welcome to the second weekly installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the week’s news. This week, we cover the China-made passenger jet that is set to take off, the lawsuit of a fish farmer from a “cancer village” over his dead daughter, anti-corruption moves, popular TV shows, and more. We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
Welcome to the third weekly installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the week’s news. On this week's Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, Chinese ride-hailing champ Didi Chuxing raises a huge round, insurer Anbang bleeds cash, another financial watchdog falls to the anti-corruption campaign, and Netflix finally enters China. Plus, Coco Feng comments on drone woes for airport operators and Doug Young discusses a big merger in the co-working space sector. There are also full stories on the runaway billionaire Guo Wengui 郭文贵 getting sued by a hedge fund, a trade case brought by a bankrupt American solar panel maker that may raise tariffs on Chinese solar panels, and worries over post-earthquake construction in Yunnan Province. We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
Welcome to the fourth installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the news. This week, we look at China’s slumping PMI numbers, Apple’s sagging sales in China, and the biggest dust storm in Beijing in recent years. We also feature four stories from Caixin: An IPO by popular hotpot chain Haidilao’s sister company Migrant workers staying closer to home as wage disparities narrow A hutong historian’s efforts to preserve the lore of Beijing’s beloved back alleys China’s efforts to bring 22 fugitives now hiding abroad back to China to face trial We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
Welcome to the fifth installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the news. This week, we look at the Belt and Road summit being held in Beijing on May 13-14, and at the new trade deal between the U.S. and China — part of the "100-day plan" proposed by Xi Jinping at the Mar-a-Lago summit last month — that will put American beef back on the menu in China. We speak with Caixin editor Doug Young about the potential downside of Chinese largesse toward Djibouti, and talk to reporter Li Rongde 李荣德 about his piece on a hack of hospital prescription data tied to Chinese pharmaceutical companies. We also bring you four complete stories: A long-running dispute between a small grain storage company in Henan Province and a huge state-run giant, which has resulted in the tragic loss of 160,000 tons of wheat How China’s mega payment platform Alipay has pushed into the U.S. market The death of Chinese diplomat Qian Qichen 钱其琛, who normalized relations with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and played an important role in the return of Hong Kong and Macao to China The massive backups plaguing Shanghai, one of the world's busiest container ports, and an exploration of the reasons why We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
Welcome to the sixth installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the news, read by Kaiser and Sinica rotating co-host Ada Shen. This week, we look at some of the big numbers from the Belt and Road Forum, which concluded after two days of clear skies in Beijing. We hear about "combustible ice," a source of methane gas that can be found in permafrost and under seabeds. We look at Alibaba's earning results, which owe at least some of their shine to the tremendous penetration that mobile payment platform Alipay is making. We then speak with Caixin Global editor Doug Young about the state of mobile payments in China, and with Caixin macroeconomics reporter Fran Wang about some of the macro numbers for April. We also bring you five complete stories: China Unicom admits to huge falsification of revenues in Shaanxi Province. Chinese smartphone brands are faring very well in the fast-growing Indian smartphone market. Ant Financial plans to seek a massive loan for a planned acquisition of MoneyGram. A massive algae bloom in Yunnan’s Erhai Lake is hurting tourism and agriculture in the region. Poor practices of supposed conservation workers threaten a 600-year-old early Ming heritage site in Anhui Province. We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
Welcome to the seventh installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the news, read by Kaiser and Sinica rotating co-host Ada Shen. This week, we look at the crackdown on "fake equity, real debt" by China's financial regulators, at the downgrade by Moody's of China's sovereign credit rating, and at the upcoming IPO of Shenzhen biotech giant BGI. We chat with Poornima Weerasekara about the reasons for the box office success of a Bollywood film about a family of wrestlers, and with Doug Young about Chinese companies' acquisitions of a Australian condom maker and the popular gay dating app Grindr. We also bring you five complete stories: The latest chapter in the Rise of the Machines sees a Chinese weiqi (Go) champ defeated by a Google AI system. The connections between dirt-dishing billionaire-on-the-lam Guo Wengui and former British prime minister Tony Blair, who helped connect Guo with funds from the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Beijing's "stores without doors" struggle to cope after the city government walls over many illegal storefronts around the capital. The Chinese government reacts to a scientific fraud scandal after a German academic journal retracts over 100 cancer-related papers for plagiarism and fake peer reviews. Poor pay, along with physical and verbal abuse, provokes a critical shortage of nurses in China’s hospitals. We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
Welcome to the eighth installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the news, read by Kaiser and Sinica rotating co-host Ada Shen. This week, we look at the corruption case of Wang Bao'an 王保安, the former head of the statistics bureau who received a life sentence for 153 million yuan ($22.5 million) in ill-gotten gains. We chat with Doug Young about the quick delisting and relisting to the New York Stock Exchange of Mindray, China's largest medical equipment manufacturer, and with Poornima Weerasekara about the full-size Titanic replica in landlocked Sichuan Province. We also bring you four complete stories: How gambling debts have led to the suspension of the top coach of the Chinese women’s table tennis team, Kong Linghui 孔令辉. How Chinese-built railroads are putting growth in East Africa on the fast track. How a growing number of Chinese couples, desperate for children, are turning to surrogacy despite its being illegal. An in-depth look at Wang Bao'an, including details of how Chinese media interpreted his case as a signal that more than 100 million yuan in bribes may set a new standard for the "extremely corrupt." We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
Welcome to the ninth installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the news, read by Kaiser and Sinica rotating co-host Ada Shen. This week, we hear how Alibaba has overtaken its rival Tencent to become the most valuable company in China by market cap. We look into how Chinese banking regulators are clamping down on the use of Chinese bank cards overseas in an effort to curb illegal activity. We tell you how the SEC has pushed back its timeline for approving the purchase of the Chicago Stock Exchange by a Chinese buyer. We find out how China's new planned city, Xiongan, is being designed with Chinese principles of yin and yang in mind. We talk to Caixin Global editor Doug Young about a Tsinghua-built AI robot that took the math portion of China's infamous gaokao college entrance exam, and chat with Caixin’s Fran Wang about some of the new trade numbers for May. We also bring you four complete stories: How China’s Belt and Road initiative may help to boost the yuan as a settlement currency in Asia. How Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is now expressing support — albeit conditional support — for Belt and Road. What Shenzhen has planned for people who don’t sort their garbage. How China’s internet regulators are clamping down on the social media accounts of online paparazzi. We’d love to hear your feedback on this new product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
Welcome to the 10th installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it includes a business news roundup, conversations with Caixin reporters and editors, and a selection of complete stories from the news, read by Kaiser and Sinica rotating co-host Ada Shen. This week, we hear how the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank approved its first equity investment, for infrastructure development in India. We examine the news that China has approved imports of new varieties of genetically modified corn and soybeans, and that global toy-maker Mattel will embark on a new joint venture to create play clubs in China with private equity giant Fosun Group. We give an update on the kindergarten bombing in eastern Jiangsu Province. We also talk to Caixin Global editor Doug Young about a massive overhaul planned for Shanghai's landmark department store, and chat with Caixin reporter Li Rongde 李荣德 about the brain drain of China's rust belt in the northeast. In addition, we bring you five complete stories: How a poorly done Chinese remake of a popular Japanese television drama has drawn fire from audiences in China. How social fitness apps and a growing middle class has sparked interest in running in China, prompting many cities to hold marathons. The ongoing crackdown against celebrity gossip on the wildly popular app Weixin, otherwise known as WeChat. China’s crayfish craze and how farming the “little lobsters,” as they’re called in Chinese, has become a massive and growing industry. How Chinese netizens are angry that the ubiquitous Xinhua Dictionary is now charging for word lookups on its smartphone app. We’d love to hear your feedback on this product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.
