China’s comprehensive 10-point monetary policy package, unveiled in May 2025, aims to stabilise financial markets and spur economic growth, offering new prospects for British businesses in a dynamic yet challenging landscape.
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China’s updated 2025 Negative List for Market Access eases restrictions for British investors, opening doors in healthcare, education, and cultural sectors while introducing new oversight for tech industries.
As China emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2023 Two Sessions is expected to oversee changes to China’s institutional structures, legislation and policy environment, which will have a profound impact on the economy and businesses in the coming year and beyond China’s most important annual governmental meetings are slated to start on Saturday, March 4 in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The “Two Sessions” meetings, which refer …
CBBC launches China-Britain Insights (CB Insights), a series of new, member-exclusive briefings that examine China from a macro perspective The first in the series will be held this month and is titled: China’s Domestic Agenda, what it means for you. The context: This March, two of China’s most influential political bodies meet at the Two Sessions to decide the formal political priorities for the Chinese government over the coming year. …
Gordon Orr is a non-executive board member of Meituan, Swire Pacific, Lenovo, EQT and the China-Britain Business Council. He is a senior advisor to McKinsey on China related topics and was responsible for establishing McKinsey’s China practice in the 1990s. Here, he provides his insights as to what might be in store for China in 2021 China enters 2021 economically stronger relative to major economies than anytime since 2009. This …
A recent report titled: ‘Towards a UK strategy and policies for relations with China’ written by Charles Parton, a former diplomat and senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, in collaboration with the Policy Institute at King’s College, London, argues that the UK urgently needs to develop a new China strategy. FOCUS talks to Parton about the report and his thoughts on the future of UK-China relations …
China’s government has confirmed that the country’s ‘Two Sessions’ or ‘Liang hui’ will take place in Beijing beginning from May 21st. These crucial political meetings had originally been scheduled to start on 5th March but were postponed due to Covid-19. This year’s Lianghui is particularly important given the ongoing pandemic: confirmation that it is taking place in May will be seen as a key marker in China’s process of getting …

