As foreseen by the architect of China's economic reform, Deng Xiaoping, since 1980 foreign direct investment in China has played a vital role in the development of the nation's economy.
Chinese officials have been expecting overseas direct investment to exceed foreign direct investment for several years. Given past trends and new government policies, the biggest question is not if it will happen, but when.
The recent relaxation of one-child policy has huge demographic implications for China and the world.
China's easing of the one-child policy alone will not avert the aging population problem in the first region to allow couples to have a second child, but it will be the lynchpin of a bigger plan to do so, a senior government economist in Zhoushan says.
There are three reasons why Beijing businesswoman Wang Aimei thinks having more than one child in contemporary China is not only possible, but also wonderful.
Since the 1980s, the increase in China's working population has been an important factor supporting the country's economic growth. But this trend is now in reverse.
Visualize young people toiling all day just to support the increasing number of senior citizens. Does that sound troubling? Well, that could become reality if the current trend of population growth continues.
Even as China faced huge economic challenges last year, it may have knocked the United States off its perch as the world's largest goods trading nation.
While most of China's imports from Africa continue to be energy products and resources, its exports to the continent are shifting toward high-end products, a trend that will continue, experts say.
Years of effort in upgrading business, especially working with overseas companies on innovation and technology, has greatly helped at least one company better tap the international market amid lower global demand for Chinese energy equipment.
China became the world's biggest trader in goods for the first time last year, overtaking the US for all of 2013. While this is no doubt a creditable achievement, it also has far-reaching implications on other economies.
The country will have succeeded when it is recognized as an advanced, high-end, global trading power
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