Shineco, a biotech company whose market capitalisation on New York's Nasdaq exchange 生物科技公司天益嘉华（该公司在纽约纳斯达克交易所的市场总值 has nearly doubled to $25m since it unveiled a hemp subsidiary last month, pl...
The hemp plant has a storied history in China. It was probably twisted into the world's first rope there around 2,800bc. 中国麻类植物种植历史悠久。公元前2800年，麻类植物可能就被拧成了世界上的第一股绳子。 In the...
People from Henan and the north-eastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning are among those most commonly targeted, partly because those areas are such big sources of migrants. Henan is a farming province of about 100m people. The latest ce...
Case closed? Not so fast. Those who doubt that competition has weakened attribute such findings to the rise of superstar firms. 结案了？没那么快。那些怀疑竞争被削弱的人将这些发现归因于超级明星公司的增长。 They ar...
China 《中国》版块 Regional discrimination 地域歧视 Province and prejudice 省份与偏见 Life is often hard for internal migrants in China, especially those from Henan and the north-east 在中国，外来人口生活通常很艰难，尤其...
Physicists' quest for a theory of everything is well-known. 物理学家对万有理论的追求人尽皆知。 The equivalent in economics is the hunt for common causes for the rich-world macroeconomic trends of the past decade or so: 经济学中的万...
Carlos Ghosn announced a forthcoming press conference to tell the truth, presumably about the charges he faces for financial misconduct at Nissan. He was rearrested soon after in Tokyo on a new indictment and is expected to spend at least three weeks...
Islami's operating profits for 2018 were 27.7bn taka ($330m), a 14.5% increase from 2017. 伊斯兰银行2018年的营业利润是272亿塔卡（3.3亿美元），比2017年增长14.5%。 But net profits, with provisions against bad loans and corpora...
But Sichuan-style broths are the most commonly savoured in China. In recent years their popularity has been booming. China has around 350,000 hotpot restaurants. About 40,000 of them are said to be in the Chongqing region alone. Hotpot restaurants in...
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 In a prospectus published ahead of a huge bond sale, Saudi Aramco revealed for the first time how much money it makes. Saudi Arabias state oil firm reaped $356bn in revenues last year. Annual net profi...
