In this briefing:
1. Reforms/US-Canada-China/ Economic Gloom/Bike Crash/Stocks
China News That Matters
- No one dictates to China but me
- US targets Chinese hackers as rift widens
- Weak data raise pressure for stimulus
- After high-speed climb, bike-share giant collapses
- A brighter new year for China’s stock market?
In my weekly digest China News That Matters, I will give you selected summaries, sourced from a variety of local Chinese-language and international news outlets, and highlight why I think the news is significant. These posts are meant to neither be bullish nor bearish, but help you separate the signal from the noise.
2. China’s Sluggish Inbound Tourism Industry
How can we explain the fact that in the five years from 2012 the number of tourist visits to China fell from 11.6 to 10.5 million per year? True, business and family reunion visits have risen, but such a culturally rich country should have more tourists.
