China is facing a growing water crisis that threatens not only its economy but also global markets. Home to 21% of the world's population, the country is battling extreme droughts and record-breaking ...

With an over 3,000-year written history, China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. China was a global economic superpower as early as the period between 1100 and and the early 1800s.

Enter Richard von Glahn's “The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century,” a book likely to go down as one of the year's best. Over the last 15 years, ...

When Xi Jinping came to power a decade ago, China had just overtaken Japan to become the world’s second largest economy. It has grown at a phenomenal pace since then. With an average annual ...

“China’s sputtering economy has prompted a dire, new shorthand online for pessimism about the prospects for any turnaround for jobs, incomes and opportunity: ‘the garbage time of history ...

In 2008, China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao decided they would not allow the economy to suffer, so they embarked on perhaps the biggest stimulus program in history.

Recent arguments that China will dominate the 21st century are greatly exaggerated. The U.S. retains major economic advantages over China's struggling economy.

Beijing has dramatically loosened its tourist visa policies, partly to boost the economy and partly to show it’s fun and friendly (no matter what Trump says).

But Xi can’t hide China’s economic woes—or hide from them. The problems are not just a post-pandemic malaise, or some soon-to-be-forgotten detour in China’s march to superpower stature.

Two years ago China was riding high. Decades of miraculous growth had transformed a desperately poor nation into an economic superpower, with a gross domestic product that by some measures was ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Arthur Kroeber, author of China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know, about the economic potential of China, and how it compares to the U.S.

In recent history, Third Plenum meetings, named for their place in the five-year cycle of committee sessions, ... For all of China’s economic advances, many people still earn and spend little.