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US tech group and manufacturing partner admit using too many temporary workers
Households say domestic concerns far more worrying than US tariff actions
Latest interbank market squall spells more trouble for private company financing
Reliance on old economic driver reflects failed efforts to boost private companies
New lenders have the tech but lack the capital and bureaucratic support to compete head on
Companies have scrambled to counter tariffs but business still slows
For all the rhetoric, state struggles to break economic addiction to bricks and mortar
Worker rights and environment clean-up spell trouble for light manufacturing in Foshan
Workers blame US tariffs and economic slowdown for drop in job opportunities
Academics respond to detention of students who supported workers trying to unionise
Employers report softer overall demand as rising costs push up FTCR Labour Market Index
Involvement of elite students a reminder for some of Tiananmen Square demonstrations
FTCR Labour Index at near two-year high as weaker service sector demand offset
Interns allegedly worked overtime and night shifts at Quanta factory in Chongqing
Authorities seek to fix pension shortfall without overburdening companies’ tax outlay
Critics say higher wages and better housing needed to help ‘left-behind’ children
Many Chinese manufacturers have reduced up to 40% of workforce as a result of automation
FTCR Labour Index shows hiring demand improving for third month as wages increase
US officials fear a mass incarceration is under way in north-west China but Beijing insists nothing is wrong in a region rich in resources but short on freedoms
Rallies support protesters detained in country’s biggest mass arrest of workers since 2015
Without Baishizhou’s cheaper housing, Shenzhen’s tech companies could not have thrived
Property no longer expected to buoy significant demand for commodities and labour
FTCR Labour Index helped by service sector and wages but underlying demand softer
China needs more babies; tackling workplace discrimination against women would help
As President Trump seeks to cut the US trade deficit with China, Martin Wolf explains what it will take for the Chinese to build a mass consumer market. Shenzhen’s tech trailblazers are anxious about rising property prices. Foreign manufacturers welcome the crackdown on copycats but are ambivalent about Trump’s trade bluster
