The central government is once again turning its attention to rural land reform. China's 800 million farmers are waiting.

China's property market bubbled confidently last year. Now it's a grim scene of slow sales, price cuts and failed land auctions.

In an exclusive two-hour interview with Caijing, CIRC’s chairman Wu Dingfu stressed that supervision should be strengthened over insurers’ corporate governance and their solvency management.

China’s insurance system needs to be reformed, to guarantee solvency and efficiency of insurance companies.

The Beijing Olympics opening spectacle marked a coming of age for China, and a chance to consider outside perspectives.

After seven years of anticipation and almost as many spent preparing, the Beijing Olympics have begun! Keep up the latest news and behind-the-scoreboard insights at our Olympic coverage site.

Facing so many variables -- credit control, price distortion, export pressure, and more -- should policymakers change course?

China is paying more attention to cancer prevention and rural spending, but smoking and pollution inflict a heavy toll.

After nine years and billions of yuan in cash-ins, China is again reviewing stock options for state-owned company chiefs.

A close look at five schools affected by the Sichuan earthquake helps explain why so many collapsed, and so many died.

China's deadliest earthquake in decades left behind not only widespread destruction but crucial questions.

A temporary track detour at a construction site factored into the mishap that killed 71 and injured hundreds aboard a Beijing-Qingdao passenger train.

Futures trader Liu Qibing cut risky deals with China's copper reserves and lost the bets. The monetary losses are still unknown, but he's going to jail.

Past restructurings of China's telecom industry benefited China Mobile, a darling of policymakers. The next overhaul may lift the company even higher.

The March 25 trial of Shanghai's former top official, Chen Liangyu, capped two years of investigations, arrests and revelations into official corruption.

No one doubts that China's fledgling sovereign wealth fund is huge and powerful. Now the US＄ 200 billion question: Can it be properly managed?

After stumbling over 3G, China’s government and top telecoms are preparing to spend billions to develop a 4G wireless standard. Will the project work?

China’s Three Gorges Dam will finally be completed in 2008. The greater challenge lies in how China will establish a long-lasting, comprehensive geological disaster control system that can realistically protect 20 million people living in the fragile Three Gorges area.

Stock manipulation and powerful connections helped young billionaire Zhang Rongkun rise to the top in Shanghai before a pension scandal quickly brought him down.

Experiments with healthcare reform in Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces have paved the way for a national overhaul of the medical system that draws a line between market and government responsibilities. But have the experiments ended?