It's a question I'm often asked: What drives President Xi Jinping's robust foreign policy? The assumption is that Xi has upped China's global game, making the country's international relations more proactive and engaging - some say more muscular and aggressive.
The decline in commodity prices in the past 18 months has been as much - perhaps more - to do with producers adding too much capacity as it has been because of China entering a lower-GDP growth environment.
This is likely to be the year in which innovation takes over from infrastructure investment as the No 1 driver of China's growth.
The word of the year for 2015, according to Oxford Dictionaries is "emoji". The wide prevalence of the Internet and the way we use our mobile devices is changing the way we communicate - including how we express ideas and emotions.
The International Monetary Fund's announcement on Dec 1 that the yuan will make up nearly 11 percent of its special drawing rights from October 2016 has attracted widespread media coverage, much of which has been along the lines of: "The SDR is a historical relic and the yuan joining the SDR is no big deal."
E-business will remain the most exciting and disruptive part of the Chinese economy in 2016 - unpredictable in detail, but unstoppable in the bigger picture of things.
Geopolitical strategists used to largely concern themselves with the possession of territories and the domination of sea routes. More recently, the capacity to control airspace and outer space has changed the equation of national strength, and now one other element has entered that equation: a country's presence in cyberspace.
China is now growing as a two-speed economy, with the slower, more traditional sectors making way for newer, dynamic industries.
The reform and opening-up of China's financial services sector will provide impetus for the economic structural shift needed for the country's two-speed growth model, according to Hui Tai, chief market strategist in Asia for JP Morgan Asset Management.
China's manufacturing strength created a major growth story for the kettle control system maker Strix, based on the Isle of Man, but the company has had to refine its strategies in China as the country undergoes an economic structural shift.
China's recent economic development, especially with the seemingly reduced growth as indicated by the GDP, has attracted tremendous attention and heated discussion.
China is contemplating growing its economy by a differentiated framework that corresponds to a distinction between old and new industries.
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