17 Sep 2025
More recent developments
June 4, 2026
China targets leaner, more competitive livestock sector in ag five-year plan
China's domestic livestock sector is big, but Beijing wants it to be strong. That's our second big takeaway from the 15th five-year plan (FYP) on agricultural modernization, which dropped June 2. A quick recap: The last ag FYP targeted a… Read More »
June 4, 2026
Shanghai wants to promote RMB asset management
Shanghai wants to be where the world parks its RMB. On June 2, the Shanghai government released guidelines on developing the city’s “Global Asset Management Center” – an initiative first launched in 2021. The document aims to raise the city’s… Read More »
June 3, 2026
Regulators relax oversight of banks’ property-related lending
Beijing is quietly relaxing oversight of the regulatory architecture it built to deflate the housing bubble. Quick background: In January 2021, the central bank (PBoC) and former banking regulator (CBIRC) set up a system for managing “property-loan concentration,” sorting banks… Read More »