40th anniversary

China’s “Reform and Opening Up” Avoided Two Major Issues in the Past 40 Years

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) commemoration of the 40th anniversary of “reform and opening up” in December has caused a lot of negative reaction at home and abroad. Over the ...

January 8, 2019BY Sunny Chao
Chinese Intellectuals Commemorate Anniversary of Economic Reforms by Calling for Real Reform

As 2018 drew to a close, more than 100 academics and commentators in China shared their candid reflections ...

January 2, 2019BY Cathy He
Deep in the Red: Chinese County Pays Price for Vanity-Project Binge

RUCHENG COUNTY, China—In the heart of an impoverished village in southern China, a life-sized statue of Mao Zedong ...

December 17, 2018BY Reuters
The Price of Progress in China: ‘We Traded our Lives for Development’

SHENZHEN, China—For four years at the turn of the century, Wang Zhaohong worked on a demolition crew in ...

December 14, 2018BY Reuters