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Liaoning province

Liaoning province
Liaoning province
The latest news, analysis and opinion on Liaoning province. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
Capital
Shenyang
Head of Government
Party Secretary of Liaoning Hao Peng
last updated:
25 September, 2024
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Women and gender

Is search for love in the ‘iron rice bowl’ killing growth in northern China?

Paper shows having a government job may outrank salary, education, ability, appearance or love for young Chinese seeking a partner.

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It is an unwritten social norm in China’s northeast for young people with government jobs to only marry each other, researcher says, flagging talent flight, joblessness, and declining birth rate. Photo: Xinhua
China-Middle East relations

Jordanian minister banks on Mideast stability in courting Chinese investment

China’s ties with Middle East go beyond trade, say analysts on World Economic Forum panel who argue Beijing could bear greater responsibility.

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China society

Opinion | China’s northeast is turning ice and snow into silver and gold

The spectacular tourism boom in Harbin and other parts of China’s northeast has sparked hope that the rust belt – the pride of early Chinese industrialisation that has fallen on hard times – may begin to find its feet again.

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Health in China

Editorial | China’s latest virus outbreak calls again for caution

Rise in respiratory illnesses in mainland China may be driven by known pathogens, but, as with Covid-19, vigilance and transparency are required

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Parents and youngsters wait to be helped in the outpatient area of a Beijing children’s hospital. A spike in respiratory ailments among children in China’s capital city and the northeastern province of Liaoning has raised worries of a wider outbreak involving a new virus. Photo: AFP
China manufacturing

Self-reliance, security, SOEs: Chinese premier has clear message on rust belt tour

During a three-day tour of China’s northeast, a former centre of industry, Premier Li Qiang has placed seemingly deliberate focus on the country’s continuing efforts to break through bottlenecks.

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China's economic recovery

How US tech curbs could revive China’s industrial powerhouse near Russia

“Curbs [from the United States] have inevitably impacted our supply chain, but at the same time it has also offered opportunities to develop our local industrial chain

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China GDP

Explainer | These 3 Chinese regions have the most daunting debt piles slamming GDP

Beijing is ramping up efforts to mitigate the outsized economic implications of risky debt holdings among China’s poorest regions, reaching into its policy toolbox to fix the problem.

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A worker welds at the construction site of the Huajiang grand-canyon bridge in China’s Guizhou province this month. Photo: Xinhua
China-Russia relations

China’s use of Russian port to ship goods is ‘symbolic’, but hurdles remain

The bilateral agreement takes effect in June, giving China a shorter and cheaper route to transport goods from its northeastern region to its eastern economic powerhouse.

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Some analysts say the Port of Vladivostok’s infrastructure is poor enough that China will need to help support its development. Photo: AFP
China trade

Exclusive | In 1 month, truck routes may fully resume between China and North Korea: source

A travel agency in China’s bordering Liaoning province is also promoting itineraries to North Korea starting from mid-June, while a source says the full reopening of the land border remains ‘entirely up to North Korea’.

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Canada

Dinosaur fossil found with its last meal still inside of it

The discovery shows the dinosaur ate a long list of animals including mammals, fish, birds, and lizards, the university announced. Microraptor fossils were first discovered in the early 2000s in Liaoning, China.

Electric & new energy vehicles

BMW confirms it will invest another US$1.4 billion in Chinese EV battery plant

BMW has confirmed that it will invest an additional 10 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) towards increasing capacity at a battery plant in China’s northern Liaoning province.

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A car undergoes a final inspection at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Photo: AFP
China’s 20th Party Congress

Xi heads to China’s rust belt in renewed push for ‘common prosperity’

President vows to peg the country’s modernisation to the principle of ‘wealth and happiness for all’.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the Liaoshen Campaign Memorial in Jinzhou, in northeast China’s Liaoning province on Tuesday, August 16. Photo: Xinhua
Corruption in China

China to ‘build strong dams’ to prevent, punish fraud ahead of economic census

China will officially launch its fifth national economic census next year, with the national statistics agency chief promising efforts will be made to prevent and punish data fraud.

Financial regulation

Bad loans and criminal charges expose risks at China’s small banks

The province of Liaoning epitomises the precarious nature of China’s regional banking system, which has been blighted by allegations of financial crimes and bad loans.

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China GDP

Coronavirus testing across China could cost 1.7 trillion yuan a year

As more cities announce mass-testing initiatives, analysts warn that the cost of such efforts will further pressure local authorities and municipal coffers that are already being strained by attempts to shore up economic growth.

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A resident undergoes a nucleic acid test for the coronavirus in Liaoning province, as more Chinese cities adopt a mass-testing approach to curb the spread of Covid-19. Photo: AFP
Xi's poverty alleviation campaign

Covid lockdowns risk China’s working class, poor ‘falling back into poverty’

A year after President Xi Jinping declared an end to extreme poverty in China, the economic fallout from Beijing’s zero-Covid ambitions is taking a hefty toll on livelihoods, especially in poorer regions.

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Coronavirus China

‘Rigid, crude’ lockdowns only choice for China’s poor regions under zero-Covid

For many local authorities in places such as China’s northeastern rust belt, the economic costs of stringent lockdowns may be nothing compared with the political implications of a runaway outbreak.

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Chinese province sees third police chief in a row accused of corruption

Wang Dawei is the latest in a string of senior police and judicial figures to be targeted by the country’s top graft-busting watchdog.

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Wang Dawei, the Liaoning police chief. Photo: Handout
China GDP

China’s local governments race to lure foreign investment as headwinds mount

China’s local governments are pulling out all the stops to lure investment – especially in advanced technology – amid mounting economic challenges, including a slowdown in the property market.

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China’s local governments are hoping to make up a shortfall in property investment with foreign investment in areas like tech. Photo: Xinhua
China’s power crisis

On or off? Power crunch causes chaos, uncertainty in China’s northeast

After poor planning by local governments and grid operators, a severe shortage of coal continues to fuel questions about when the rolling blackouts will come to an end.

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Food and agriculture

Will China ever make wine as good as the Old World?

Despite hostile climates – from frigid and dry to humid and rainy – wine is being grown across many regions of China today and its quality is improving fast

China economy

Beijing aims to boost rust-belt province as ‘golden place’ for tech development

China’s top economic policymakers took a field trip to Liaoning province this week to solicit opinions on the region’s next stage of development, with an aim to promote Beijing’s push for technological self-sufficiency.

Workers assemble components for China’s home-grown C919 passenger jet at a factory of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation in Liaoning province. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus China

Chinese health authorities deny plans to end birth control restrictions

The National Health Commission said comments that three provinces would be allowed to adopt new policies did not mean it would end limits on family size.

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Scrapping the one-child policy in 2015 has failed to arrest the demographic decline. Photo: Xinhua
China economy

Liaoning province merges 12 banks into one amid bad loans and risk of bank runs

Merger will establish a ‘first-class urban commercial bank’ that absorbs the dozen existing local banks on ‘market-oriented’ and ‘law-based’ principles, according to China’s central bank.

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Health in China

Chinese asked to stay home for the holidays as 20 new infections reported

Communist Party and government officials in Beijing ordered not to leave city for duration of New Year and Lunar New Year holidays.

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