China is to restrict domestic art troupes from performing at prestigious venues abroad, saying many did so not for any artistic merit but merely to boast, and had abused public money and resources.
More Chinese companies have made this year's Fortune Global 500 list but their typical profitability is weak, according to the annual ranking released on Monday.
As China plans to pilot "house-for-pension" insurance as an eldercare alternative, insurance companies have expressed hope of forming a new though small territory in a nearly saturated market.
China has released long-awaited guidance on employee stock ownership plans (ESOP), but analysts expect more policy infrastructure, such as tax benefits, to be in place before the mechanism proves effective.
China's filmmakers received a boost on Thursday when the government announced support for the industry.
China's listed companies are preparing for an unprecedented wave of resignations by independent directors following a Party directive on officials' other jobs outside their office.
Business sentiment at Japan's large companies was hurt by April's sales tax hike, the first hike in 17 years, in the second quarter of 2014 for the first time in six quarters, according to a newly released government survey on Wednesday.
The Chinese government started a month-long campaign to eliminate malpractice on instant messaging services like WeChat on Tuesday.
A flurry of online trading platforms have been launched as Chinese steel companies hope that branching into the Internet sphere will boost sales and help them weather the hard days.
A total of 3,553 Chinese nationals affected in the recent anti-foreign violence in Vietnam were heading home on board four Chinese ships from the central Vietnamese port of Vung Ang on Monday.
A senior vice president with NYSE Euronex says that more and more Chinese enterprises are attracted to do initial public offering (IPO) in the United States and predicts that around 15 to 20 of them could go public in the States this year.
The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Saturday reminded local residents now in Vietnam to monitor the situation, exercise caution and attend to personal safety.
China on Thursday lodged a solemn protest with Vietnam and voiced strong condemnation over the recent violence there against foreign investors and companies that has left a Chinese citizen dead and more than 100 others injured.
At least two Chinese nationals have been killed and over 100 Chinese hospitalized after rioters attacked Chinese companies in Vietnam, sources told Xinhua on Thursday.
Some 25,729 enterprises had been established in Vietnam in the first four months of 2014, up 8.1 percent year-on-year, said Vietnam's Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday pledged to give equal treatment to foreign companies in China, and create an operation environment with fair competition.
China's industry heavyweights enjoy easy access to cheap bank loans, while smaller firms in dire need for fund usually find it expensive, if not impossible, to secure loans.
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