Deer Consumer Products, a Chinese manufacturer of kitchen appliances, may not yet be a household name. But Deer has big ambitions, prestigious contracts with the likes of Wal-Mart and Tesco and plans for a Nasdaq listing...    more »

PepsiCo has opened China's first "green" beverage plant in Chongqing and reiterated plans to invest $1 billion in the country. The drinks giant says this is the first plant in the industrial centre of Chongqing to comply with LEED, a US standard for green buildings...    more »

China's telecoms equipment industry gets more innovative each day. But there are still areas where western technology triumphs. How else do we explain Ericsson getting three contracts for fixed broadband access?    more »

China has shelved its controversial plan to install internet filtering software on every PC. A victory for internet freedom? More likely, the government realised the deadline was unrealistic and the technology unlikely to be effective..    more »

The oil price has leaped more than 100% since February. Economists may scratch their heads, but in China the inexorably march upward of the oil price in the midst of a recession is cause for more than academic concern...    more »

The reopening of China's IPO market is good news for speculators and also the western investment banks and advisers who have seen their fees shrivel in the recent IPO drought..   more »

Back in 2005 the EU agreed to cooperate with China on climate change. Four years on and several billion tonnes of CO2 later, the two have finally found a project on which they can cooperate...    more »

Chinese consumers are obeying their government's exhortations to spend more and increasingly they are doing so using plastic. In 2008, the number of credit and debit cards in circulation in China grew 20%...   more »

US-China trade relations are once again being tested, this time by the Chinese government's refusal to revoke its requirement that new PCs come fitted with a controversial internet filtering program...   more »

China's nascent IT outsourcing industry appears to be weathering the downturn well, although there could be storm clouds ahead. China's software exports grew 22% in the first five months of 2009 to reach $2.5bn...    more »