China seems to have been successfully preserving its own purity and integrity, but questions remain as to how long this can last.
More than 1/3 of Chinese businesses are struggling to recruit skilled workers, posing a major challenge for their growth prospects, a report said.
Young migrant workers are better educated and informed than their predecessors, and are becoming more demanding in terms of working conditions and other incentives, according to a survey by one of China's largest online recruitment platforms. As well as higher salaries, migrant workers now demand better living facilities, regular entertainment activities and better social welfare, the survey by recruitment site daguu.com revealed.
In our special Year in Review, we present eight videographics to showcase different facets of China's economy in 2012.
As prices of luxury items remain prohibitive in China, wealthy consumers are going on sprees abroad.
Keep China's big spenders at home
An APP development firm based in Chengdu insists the southwest inland city is quite simply unequalled as a source of the top talent.
China became the prime investment destination among key growth markets in 2012, as its middle class rises and foreign investors get more familiar with mergers and acquisitions here.
If the process is properly handled by the central government, the urbanization drive will foster an important engine of China's future economic growth.
Journalists usually report social changes, but sometimes they signify the changes themselves.
China will see the start of a new growth cycle this year, with GDP growing by 8.5 percent, so long as it remains committed to economic reform.
Despite rising labor costs and an aging population, China is still regarded as the top destination for manufacturing, says an int'l report on Tuesday.
An index that monitors the gap between the rich and poor has reached what experts consider an alarming level in China.
The Gini coefficient hit 0.474 in China in 2012, higher than the warning level of 0.4 set by the United Nations, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
But there are still doubts whether the index has accurately reflected the widening social disparity in the country.
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