2026-11-06
A report released by Bloomberg Economics on November 6 stated that if the Democratic Party slows down AI investment and data center construction after a major victory in the U.S. midterm elections, China's growth, which relies on AI hardware exports, will be hit. Net exports contributed nearly 40% of China's economic growth in the third quarter, and chips and computer products accounted for 40% of the year-on-year increase in exports in the first nine months.
2026-11-06
At the Bu Ming Bai Festival held in Tokyo, the Bu Ming Bai Podcast invited Professor Xu Chenggang to discuss the institutional logic behind China's economic growth and recession, as well as how ordinary people can cope, using his book 'The Institutional Genes' as a starting point.
2026-11-05
On November 5, Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China, reported on financial work to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: As of the end of September this year, the number of remaining local government financing vehicles nationwide has decreased by 92% compared to the end of March 2023; as of the end of June, the stock of operational financial debt has decreased by 79%. The report also disclosed that the cumulative approval for real estate 'white list' loans has exceeded 8.4 trillion yuan, and that officials have established a liquidity support tool for clearing arrears and held talks with leading enterprises that have defaulted on payments.
2026-10-28
Insiders confirm that two matured trust products of Zhuhai Huafa Group were not redeemed on schedule, causing a sharp drop in the price of its offshore dim sum bonds.
2026-10-12
Xiao Jie, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, led a team to Nanchang, Jingdezhen and Yichun in Jiangxi to investigate government debt and audit work, and to verify materials on Jiangxi's debt black hole and mineral corruption.
2026-10-26
On October 26, Bloomberg reported on a Morgan Stanley study saying that the Chinese stock market may not have bottomed out yet, and that offshore Chinese stocks could fall another 10%–15% before approaching historically low valuations, with weak economic consumption, pressure on e-commerce, and fears of tax-triggered selling of trusts intensifying the adjustment.
2026-10-22
The Beijing Municipal Tax Service publicly disclosed on its official website that tax notices had been served on 21 natural persons, reflecting the continuing increase in pressure on local finances and tax recovery.
2026-10-25
Bloomberg reported on October 25 that China's stock market has shrunk by about $3.5 trillion from its high earlier this year in May, with the CSI 300 index falling into a bear market the previous week, as weak consumption and price wars squeeze corporate profits.
2026-10-23
On October 23, the Ministry of Finance released fiscal revenue and expenditure data for the first three quarters. In September, national land transfer revenue was 233.4 billion yuan, down 23.2% year on year; individual income tax revenue was 138.4 billion yuan, up 10.5% year on year. In the first three quarters, land transfer revenue decreased by 621.5 billion yuan year on year.
2026-10-13
On October 13, the IMF released its latest World Economic Outlook, raising Taiwan's 2026 growth forecast from 5.2% in April to 10.7%, while lowering the mainland's forecast by 0.1 percentage points to 4.5%; Taiwan's growth is mainly driven by demand for AI and advanced chips.
2026-10-13
The Ministry of Finance's 2026 budget shows that central government debt interest expenditure is 873.99 billion yuan, accounting for about 19.2% of central-level expenditure.
2026-10-11
According to a report by the Financial Times, China's economic growth in the second quarter fell to 4.3%, below the full-year target range of 4.5% to 5%. Retail sales and fixed-asset investment were weak, and the property market has been in a downturn for more than five years.
2026-10-11
Srinivasan, head of the International Monetary Fund's Asia Department, noted that China's growth model of relying on investment, manufacturing and exports is approaching its limits, and suggested improving the social security system, adjusting local government incentives and the land-finance model, warning that otherwise the country could fall into a prolonged slowdown.
2026-10-11
Research by the Conference Board shows that interest payments on the debt of China's central and local governments are expected to reach 1.4 trillion yuan in 2026, far exceeding the roughly 348 billion yuan in 2014; central government debt service is projected to rise to 19.2% of the general public budget.
2026-10-11
Morgan Stanley expects China's public debt-to-GDP ratio to reach 122% by the end of 2026, up 48 percentage points from before the pandemic.
2026-10-09
On October 9, the Ministry of Finance announced the arrangement and use of 550 billion yuan in local government debt carryover quotas, of which 300 billion yuan will be fully allocated to counties and districts to enhance general public budget support capacity, and 250 billion yuan will be used to support investment projects.
2026-10-08
On October 8, The Wall Street Journal reported that, facing difficulties such as the real estate downturn, insufficient domestic demand, and second-quarter GDP growth slowing to 4.3%, the stimulus measures introduced by the Chinese government — including mortgage subsidies and capital injections into banks — lean toward caution and are unlikely to fundamentally reverse the economic weakness.
2026-09-30
On September 30, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a new book, "Toward a New Growth Model for the Chinese Economy," on its official website, pointing out that linking local officials' performance evaluation to GDP targets has led to infrastructure expansion, land-sale financing, and the accumulation of local government financing vehicle (LGFV) debt. LGFV cash flows can cover only about one-quarter to one-third of interest payments. The book recommends improving social security, advancing household registration (hukou) reform, and increasing the progressivity of the tax system.
2026-09-29
The fiscal interest subsidy policy was officially announced on September 29 and went into effect at the start of the National Day holiday; combined with developer discounts, it drove up new home transaction volumes in some key cities.
2026-09-29
An X account named “所谓伊人在水一方” uploaded a video of a female teacher talking about student safety, in which she reminds high school students to guard against strangers, vehicles, and the risk of losing contact.
2026-09-28
According to a Bloomberg report on September 28, China's banking sector is accelerating the bulk sale of non-performing personal loans such as credit card debt and consumer loans. In the first eight months of this year, over 1,000 asset packages were listed, with outstanding balances exceeding 275 billion yuan, and some deals were priced as low as 1% of face value.
2026-09-27
In response to the call for tightening their belts, many places across China are welcoming National Day in a frugal manner. Erqi District in Zhengzhou has achieved an old flag reuse rate as high as 82.26%, while Shiyan in Hubei and Jiande in Zhejiang have also adopted cost-saving measures such as reusing materials or relying on existing flowerbeds.
2026
Data from the Ministry of Finance shows that national revenue from the transfer of state-owned land use rights has dropped to over 970 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 31.5%.
2026
The video's author lists indicators from the first half of the year — contracting consumption, high-ranking officials falling from power, declines in fiscal revenue and household savings, and rising unemployment and credit defaults — claiming all have set historical records; no unified source can be found for any of the data.
2026-06-15
National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman Wang Yong led multiple financial and statistical officials to Inner Mongolia for research, focusing on investigating computing power, energy, and illegal local financing black accounts.
2026-09-18
In a conversation, Morgan Stanley's Chief Economist for China, Xing Ziqiang, pointed out that China's social security expenditure accounts for only about 8% of GDP, far below the OECD average of 25% and the levels of developing countries with similar per capita GDP, and also mentioned group disparities in the enjoyment of public services.
2026-09-19
On September 19, Huang Yiping, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China, stated at the Beijing Economic Forum that artificial intelligence may exacerbate the contradiction between China's overcapacity and insufficient household purchasing power. He pointed out that distribution leaning toward capital leads to weak demand, and suggested increasing the proportion of household income through market-oriented reforms, while the central government borrows to repair the balance sheets of local governments and enterprises.
2026-09-19
At the Tsinghua Wudaokou Chief Economists Forum, four scholars—Lin Yifu, Yu Yongding, Yao Yang, and Li Xunlei—concentrated their efforts to call on the central government to adopt expansionary fiscal policies and bail out local government debt.
2026-09-12
On September 12, as Shandong Zaozhuang Tengzhou Urban Construction Group failed to repay the principal and interest of a loan upon maturity, multiple investors gathered at the entrance of the company headquarters for rights defense, demanding an explanation from the company.
2026-09-15
On September 15, The Wall Street Journal published an article pointing out that while China can avoid a sudden financial crisis through its state-controlled financial system, the losses from real estate and bank bad loans will not disappear. Economist Michael Pettis believes that the losses will be borne by ordinary residents in the long run through low deposit returns and shrinking asset values, rather than manifesting in public forms such as bank failures.
2026-09-15
On September 15, German Chancellor Merz criticized China at the Berlin Entrepreneurs' Conference, stating that through state intervention, overcapacity, and export subsidies, China has driven the EU's trade deficit with China to over 300 billion euros. EU leaders plan to discuss in October whether to deploy trade defense instruments.
2026-09-15
Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Bank, published a column on September 15 saying that the financing structure in August continued to optimize and better match new quality productive forces; the claim is accused of masking the contraction of credit in the private sector.
2026-09-14
The aggregate financing to the real economy for August announced by the central bank was 1.66 trillion yuan, of which net government bond financing was 1.01 trillion yuan, accounting for 60.8%; renminbi loans to the real economy were only 60 billion yuan, accounting for 3.6%, meaning financing was mainly supported by government borrowing.
2026-09-14
Aggregate financing in August was 1.66 trillion yuan, down 35% year on year, of which net government bond financing was 1.01 trillion yuan, accounting for 60.8%, while RMB loans to the real economy were only 60 billion yuan, or 3.6%.
2026-09-14
In the first 8 months, direct financing totaled 12.03 trillion yuan, accounting for 50.31% of aggregate social financing; of this, government bonds were 8.77 trillion yuan, accounting for 72.9%, corporate bonds were 2.79 trillion yuan, accounting for 23%, and equity financing was only 470 billion yuan, just 3.9%.
2026-09-11
On September 11, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission together with the Ministry of Finance jointly reported six cases of local government hidden debt, naming Anhui’s Jieshou, Jiangxi’s Jiujiang and Ningxia’s Yinchuan for falsifying, misappropriating or using new loans to repay old ones, with “debt‑conversion fraud” amounts totaling 2.94 billion yuan, and also mentioned the issue that during Wu Shenghua’s tenure as former party secretary of Bijie, Guizhou, debt increased rather than decreased.
2026-09-11
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, along with the Ministry of Finance, reported on September 11 that Jieshou, Anhui, only repaid 42 million yuan in debt but reported 182 million yuan, falsifying its debt reduction achievements.
2026-09-11
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance, announced on September 11 that Jiujiang in Jiangxi repaid old debts by taking on new ones and counted 1 billion yuan as a debt resolution result.
2026-09-11
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance, announced on September 11 that of the 2.958 billion yuan in debt-resolution funds in Yinchuan, Ningxia, only 1.158 billion yuan was actually used to repay debt, while the remaining 1.8 billion yuan was used for corporate operations, yet all of it was recorded in the debt-resolution system.
2026-09-11
A September 11 notice from the National Commission of Supervision and the Ministry of Finance mentioned that during the tenure of Wu Shenghua, former Party Secretary of Bijie, Guizhou, the outstanding debt balance rose instead of falling, with the 2024 debt resolution task completion rate at only 20%, ranking last in the entire province. He once said, "The debts were all incurred by my predecessors — why should I be the one to pay them back?"
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, several grassroots community medical workers and staffed teachers in Shaanxi reported on social platforms that their wages were in arrears and performance pay had been suspended. Some employees with official staffing status said they were burdened by mortgages and even had to consider taking out loans in order to keep working.
2026-09
As the lives of ordinary people grow ever harder, the Chinese Communist Party authorities seem to turn a blind eye to their suffering, continuing to tout a bright outlook for China’s economy and calling on all sectors of society to revel in economic prosperity.
2026-09
Local hidden debt fell from 14.3 trillion yuan at the end of 2023 to 6.5 trillion yuan at the end of 2025, a decrease of 7.8 trillion yuan; over the same period, local statutory debt rose from 40.7 trillion yuan to 54.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.1 trillion yuan, with the swap mainly addressing the interest problem.
2026-09
By the end of 2025, over 82% of financing platforms had exited, most of them by being renamed as operating financial debt; an estimated 5 to 7 trillion yuan remains. Policy requires platforms to completely sever government credit before June 30, 2027, with a measurable stock of 9.87 trillion yuan.
2026-09
A total of 6 trillion yuan in local government replacement bonds from 2024 to 2026; as of the end of August 2026, 5.84 trillion yuan had been issued, accounting for 97.3%. The year 2026 is the final year.
2026-09
In the first 8 months of 2026, securities transaction stamp duty grew nearly twofold year-on-year. Funds mainly changed hands among households, brokerages, the fiscal authorities and insurance companies, without generating any new investment.
2026-09
At the recent Tsinghua PBC School Forum, economists within the system, including Lin Yifu, Yu Yongding, Yao Yang, and Li Xunlei, rarely criticized economic policy en masse. Yu Yongding said the central government's books are clean while local governments are a complete mess, and called on the central government to issue bonds to replace local debt.
2026-08-30
According to the video, Guizhou is establishing the Guizhou Rural Commercial United Bank to accelerate the rollout of city-level unified legal entities; Guizhou's broad debt ratio exceeds 650%, its fiscal self-sufficiency rate is below 30%, and the rate of legal entity elimination among rural commercial banks exceeds 50%.
2026-08-30
According to the video, Henan abandoned the plan for city-level unified legal entities and instead directly set up a provincial unified legal entity, merging round after round and absorbing over a hundred institutions in one go, with the provincial rural commercial bank's registered capital piling up to nearly 100 billion yuan; Henan's debt ratio exceeds 420%, and its legal entity elimination rate exceeds 60%.
2026-08-30
According to the video, Liaoning's debt ratio exceeds 500%, the elimination rate of legal persons of rural commercial banks exceeds 70%, and dozens of county-level banks have been merged into the provincial rural commercial bank in one step.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, a notice allegedly issued by Wuping County, Longyan City, Fujian Province circulated online, deciding that the fiscally funded portion of the basic performance bonuses for civil servants and public institution staff in August would be issued at half the amount, and that vehicle reform funds would be suspended, sparking widespread discussion.
2026-08-25
The meeting heard the National Commission of Supervision's submission for deliberation of the draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, the Ministry of Finance reported on government debt management, and deliberation began on personnel appointment and removal bills.
2026-08-23
People’s Daily continues to publish “Zhong Caiwen” articles, claiming that China’s economy has shown “strong resilience.”
2026-08-23
Chinese state media published an article characterizing the 4.7% economic growth in the first half of the year as high-quality, arguing that it is in line with the current economic reality.
2026-08-22
People’s Daily published an article signed “Zhong Caiwen,” arguing that observations of China’s economy should not focus only on single-month data.
2026-08-21
The Ministry of Finance said that more than 2 trillion yuan of bonds will continue to be issued in the second half of the year, a relatively large scale for the same period of previous years; the 2026 quota for new special bonds is 4.4 trillion yuan, and ultra-long-term special treasury bonds total 1.3 trillion yuan.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, the Ministry of Finance released the national fiscal revenue and expenditure situation for January to July. Local governments' income from the transfer of state-owned land use rights was 1.1731 trillion yuan, down 30.8% year-on-year.
2026-08-17
Li Qiang presided over a State Council meeting, calling for persisting in expanding domestic demand, focusing on the principal contradiction, seizing on areas with long industrial chains and large scale, and promoting the domestic economic cycle and consumption upgrading.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, China's National Bureau of Statistics rarely broke its long-standing convention of releasing data in the morning, postponing the July national economic data to 3 p.m., after the A-share market closed, sparking market concerns that the data was under pressure.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, foreign media reported that Anhui Guohou Asset, a Chinese local distressed-asset disposal firm, was formally ruled by a court to enter bankruptcy reorganization after being unable to repay massive debts of about 13 billion yuan.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, netizens reported that Zibo in Shandong and other places have long been in arrears on talent subsidies for up to 24 months. The Zibo municipal government had previously responded that subsidies could not be paid on time due to a shortage of fiscal funds, and netizens from many other places also reported similar problems of unpaid subsidies.
2026-08-06
The yield on one-year US Treasury bonds reached 4.6%, compared to 1.3% for a five-year fixed deposit at China Construction Bank and 1.7% for savings bonds issued by the Ministry of Finance.
2026-08
In August 2026, the People’s Bank of China released financial data showing that the month’s nationwide new RMB loans were only 60 billion yuan, far below the market expectation of 4,040 billion yuan. In the first eight months, nationwide new loans totaled 10.44 trillion yuan, nearly 3 trillion yuan less year‑on‑year. Government bonds accounted for 1.01 trillion yuan of the total 1.66 trillion yuan of financial involvement in society, a year‑on‑year plunge of 35%, while corporate and household loans shrank sharply.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, Qiushi, the journal of the CCP Central Committee, published an article candidly acknowledging that there is a temperature gap between macroeconomic data and the micro-level experience of the ordinary public, conceding that intensifying competition for jobs and improvements in income have fallen short of expectations, sparking widespread social discussion.
2026-07-30
On July 30, 2026, the CCP Central Committee Politburo held a meeting to analyze the economic situation. The Wall Street Journal reported that the meeting emphasized supply-side optimization and the implementation of existing policies, sending a clear signal that there is no intention to unleash flood-style massive stimulus in the face of slowing economic growth.
2026-07-29
People's Daily published guidance opinions, releasing a strong signal of investigating the Ctrip monopoly case and cracking down on antitrust involution, drawing outside attention to the authorities' further rectification of foreign and private enterprises.
2026-07-24
The CCP Central Committee held a symposium with non-Party figures at Zhongnanhai. Presiding over the meeting, Xi Jinping said that China's economy is currently facing certain difficulties and challenges.
2026-07-24
At a symposium with non-Party figures, Xi Jinping acknowledged for the first time in his own words that China's economy is experiencing a severe downturn. The news is regarded as an important milestone, foreshadowing the gravity of China's economic situation.
2026-07-22
On July 22, 2026, Zhang Enhui, Secretary of the Changchun Municipal Party Committee, presided over an enlarged meeting of the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee. The official communiqué stated that the city's economic development is currently facing "unprecedented difficulties and challenges."
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2026-07-22
On July 22, 2026, the CCP Changchun Municipal Committee held an expanded standing committee meeting to conduct an in-depth analysis of the economic situation in the first half of the year, and the official announcement rarely admitted that the city's economic development is facing unprecedented difficulties and severe challenges.
2026-07-15
On July 15, 2026, China's National Bureau of Statistics released data showing that national GDP grew 4.7% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, while growth in the second quarter slowed to 4.3%, falling short of the full-year target, with real estate investment down 18% year-on-year.
2026-07-15
China announced that GDP grew 4.3% in the second quarter. Nominal growth exceeded real growth for the first time in 13 quarters, mainly driven by price increases upstream.
2026-07-08
A China economic briefing released by the World Bank on July 8 pointed out that China's domestic demand will continue to shrink and housing prices will fall, with the root cause being that the government of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses 43% of its budget for investment while underfunding people's livelihood.
2026-07-07
Renowned macroeconomist Gao Shanwen has passed away due to illness at the age of 55. He previously worked at institutions such as Peking University and Guotai Junan Securities, and was well-known for his profound insights and warnings regarding the Chinese economy.
2026-07-04
The quarterly meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China adjusted the economic tone from "steady progress" to "toward the new, toward the better," and listed structural optimization as one of the challenges facing the economy.
2026-07
China's official data shows Q2 GDP grew 4.3% year-on-year, the slowest pace since the end of 2022.
2026-07
The market widely expects China's year-on-year GDP growth in the second quarter of 2026 to fall back to 4.2% to 4.5%, while the Bank of China Institute of International Finance has forecast 4.7%.
2026-06-18
The website of the Chinese Communist Party's theoretical journal Qiushi published a commentary article titled "Boost Consumption with Greater Vigor," proposing measures such as increasing residents' income, improving the social security system, rescuing the real estate sector, and repairing residents' balance sheets.
2026-06-12
On June 12, 2026, the People's Bank of China released a financial statistics report showing that by the end of May, the balance of Chinese government bonds reached 100.6 trillion yuan, up 15.1% year on year, with the bond balance doubling within five years.
2026-06
On July 9, 2026, the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors issued window guidance to some banks, requiring them to avoid underwriting local government financing vehicle bonds with maturities of less than two years, in order to restrict chengtu short-term debt from rolling over old debt with new borrowing.
2026-04-25
Justin Yifu Lin, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, said in Hefei that China is only 135 dollars short of the high-income country threshold and could cross it by next year at the latest.
2026-01-19
China's statistical department announced that the nominal GDP for 2025 is approximately 140 trillion yuan, a figure used to estimate the economic losses caused by information control.
2026
The video claims that Guangzhou’s 2026 Stabilization and Adjustment Fund has already spent 19 billion yuan, leaving only 4.22 billion yuan; no public reports can be found for this figure.
2026
According to International Monetary Fund estimates, the actual scale of the Chinese government's debt in 2026 will be about 200 trillion yuan, reaching 135% of GDP.
2026
In 21 of the country's 31 provinces, local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) as a whole have fallen into a state where interest expenses exceed main business revenue; some regions have seen LGFV defaults, and some local governments have begun systematically delaying civil servant and teacher salaries.
2026
Based on calculations using International Monetary Fund data, China’s actual government debt ratio is projected to exceed 200% in 2026.
2026
Based on data from the International Monetary Fund, the video estimates that China's fiscal deficit in 2026 is expected to exceed 15%.
2026
Data from China's Ministry of Commerce shows that after reaching a peak of 1.23 trillion in 2024, the national actual utilized foreign investment fell to 747.6 billion last year, a year-on-year decrease of 40%, and has continued to decline by 7% this year on a low base.
2026
In 2026, Beijing's government fund budget special debt revenue was compiled at 2270.5 hundred million yuan, and special debt principal repayment was 1908.3 hundred million yuan.
2026
In 2026, the special revenue of the projects corresponding to Shenzhen municipal special bonds was budgeted at 8.91 billion yuan, an increase of 5 billion yuan over the previous year.
2026
Zheng Junkang, former Party Secretary of Liuzhou, pushed a ground rail transit project that the State Council had not approved and built it with borrowed money; after debt oversight tightened and audits moved in, the project stopped and was left unfinished.
2026
In the first half of 2026, China saw an unprecedented year in which not a single province, municipality, or autonomous region had fiscal revenue capable of covering fiscal expenditure, with local finances in extreme distress.
2026-01
Ministry of Finance data: From January to May 2026, revenue at the central level of local government fund budgets was 104.76 billion yuan, down 23.2% year-on-year, of which income from the transfer of state-owned land use rights was 80.48 billion yuan, down 28.7% year-on-year.
2026
Hong Kong issued a total of HK$155 billion in bonds in 2025-26. The budget counted bond issuance as revenue; after deducting HK$51.7 billion in maturing payments, the originally estimated HK$67 billion deficit became a HK$2.9 billion surplus.
2025-12
According to estimates in the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics' "2025 Report on the Fiscal Conditions of Provinces, Cities, and Counties," in 2024 the average fiscal self-sufficiency rate of the country's 2,774 county-level areas was about 38%, with the lowest county at only about 1%.
2025-06
China's National Audit Office released a report pointing out that large amounts of local disaster-relief treasury bonds and special funds were left idle, diverted or misappropriated, or used to repay local debts and cover the "three guarantees" expenditures.
2025
In 2025, China's high-tech industry actually used 241.8 billion yuan in foreign investment, down 15.6% year on year.
2025
China-Brazil bilateral trade volume reached $188 billion in 2025, ranking first in Latin America, yet Brazil's GDP growth rate over the past 15 years ranks second to last among major Latin American countries.
2025
In 2025 alone, Shanghai's debt balance increased by 132.9 billion yuan, most of which was used to replenish government funds and repay the principal of maturing bonds.
2025
Despite the Chinese ban, Japan's total seafood exports recovered in 2025 and hit a record high of 423.1 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 17.2 percent.
2025
Statistics bulletin of the National Health Commission shows that in 2025 there were 15.109 million voluntary blood donation visits nationwide, with a donation rate of 10.9 per 1,000 people; all three key indicators dropped by about 11% compared with 2023; in 2024, donations were already more than 1 million visits fewer than in 2023.
2025
The video claims that by the end of 2025 Guangzhou's debt balance reached 745.8 billion yuan, with a limit utilization rate of 98.6%; no public reports can be found for this figure.
2025
By the end of 2025, Shenzhen's debt balance had reached 449.2 billion yuan.
2024-12-03
In a speech at the end of 2024, Gao Shanwen expressed sensitive views on the cyclical bubbles, consumption structure, actual growth rate, and future low growth of the Chinese economy. The speech was subsequently banned, marking his final public address.
2024-11-08
On November 8, 2024, the Chinese Communist Party approved a quota of 6 trillion yuan for replacing hidden debt, rolling over and cutting interest rates on local government financing vehicle (LGFV) debt at a pace of 2 trillion yuan per year, effectively shifting losses onto creditors.
2024-11
The program stated that from November 2024 to the first quarter of 2026, China issued a cumulative 4.96 trillion yuan in replacement bonds; no public reports could be found for this figure.
2024-11
From November 2024 to 2026, China cumulatively replaced 5 trillion yuan of local government debt. However, the statutory debt balance increased by 10.7 trillion yuan, indicating that the local government debt problem remains severe.
2024-10-28
Moutai Group has issued a letter of intent to Guizhou Bank, proposing to subscribe for no more than 619 million new shares.
2023-10-24
On October 24, 2023, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress approved the issuance of 1 trillion yuan in additional government bonds for post-disaster reconstruction and disaster prevention and mitigation; a subsequent audit report said that less than 32% of the funds could actually be accounted for.
2023-09
The central government has issued Document No. 35, which explicitly stipulates that newly borrowed LGFV debt can only be used to pay interest, triggering immense pressure on local government finances and the salaries of public officials.
2023
In its 2023 entrusted management business report, Anhui Guohou AMC stated that the company has no bankruptcy reorganization matters.
2023
Last year, daily rental rates in China's robot rental market ranged from 5,000 to 15,000 yuan, used mainly for performance-type events such as mall openings, auto show booths, and warm-up acts at annual galas.
2022-12-30
Zunyi Road and Bridge, the largest urban investment white glove under the Zunyi government, has extended its 15.6 billion bank loan for 20 years, firing the first shot for urban investment extensions nationwide.
2022-10
University of Chicago scholar Martinez, using satellite nighttime light data, found that annual GDP growth in authoritarian countries is overstated by an average of about 35%, and that China's figure may have been overstated by about one third over the past two decades.
2022-01-28
On January 28, 2022, the Ministry of Finance announced that income from the transfer of state-owned land use rights in 2021 was 8.7051 trillion yuan (about 8.7 trillion yuan), an increase of 3.5% year on year, hitting a record high.
2022
According to reports, by 2022 Zibo's debt increased to approximately 108 billion RMB, doubling from before Jiang Duntao took office.
2022
The Nanning government once sold local parking space operating rights from 2022 through 2052, a term as long as 30 years.
2018-01-11
In January 2018, Tianjin Binhai New Area switched its GDP statistical basis from registered to local, revising its 2016 GDP from 1,000.231 billion yuan to 665.4 billion yuan, a drop of about one third; the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Statistics said this had no impact on the city's overall GDP.
2016
In 2016, fixed-asset investment in Liaoning Province plunged 63.5%, and in March of the same year Northeast Special Steel went into substantive default, marking the complete collapse of Northeast China's balance sheet and credit.
2016
After Cao Jiongfang became Party Secretary of Xiangtan in May 2016, knowing full well that the debt had already been flagged, he still pushed the "Exquisite Xiangtan Two-Year Action," rolling out 345 projects with a total investment of 61.7 billion yuan, adding 43.5 billion yuan of new debt in violation of regulations, and leaving behind 33 unfinished projects.
2016
In 2016, Xi Jinping proposed that housing is for living in, not for speculation, in an attempt to push down housing prices. Local governments passively resisted due to fiscal and debt problems, and collective incidents of unpaid wages for teaching staff and public employees occurred. Xi Jinping ultimately abandoned this policy and turned to backstopping local government debt.
2012
The sum of GDP figures reported by provinces and municipalities in 2012 was 57.66 trillion yuan, about 10% higher than the 51.93 trillion yuan calculated by the National Bureau of Statistics; the bureau said the difference was mainly due to double counting in the tiered accounting system and differences in raw data.
2007-03
The then-Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, Li Keqiang, told the US Ambassador that Liaoning's GDP figures were man-made and for reference only, and that he only looked at electricity consumption, railway cargo volume, and bank loans.
2004
The Shenzhen Municipal Government hired the Shenzhen branch of China Development Bank as its financial advisor, and during the relevant period, the Shenzhen branch of China Development Bank signed a 30 billion yuan credit line with the Shenzhen Municipal Government.
2001-12-11
On December 11, 2001, China officially became a member of the World Trade Organization after an agreement was reached at the ministerial conference in Doha.
1994-01-01
Zhu Rongji pushed forward the tax-sharing reform, allocating 75 percent of value-added tax to the central government and retaining 25 percent for local governments, while establishing a vertical national tax team. This led to a massive surge in central government fiscal revenue alongside a sharp increase in local fiscal pressure, laying hidden dangers for land finance and local government debt.
1993-12
In late 1993, China determined the plan to unify the RMB exchange rate, merging the official and market rates. The relevant reforms were officially implemented the following year.
1976
In October 1976, the ten-year-long Cultural Revolution ended with the "downfall of the Gang of Four"; the prolonged political campaigns had a severe impact on China's economy.