China puts faith in Asian trade

Dairy recovers from scandal

A tainted milk scandal that killed six infants last year clobbered companies associated with it. As trust slowly returns, investors are focusing again on the sector's structural attractions.

Sanyuan Foods

The Beijing-based dairy products maker faces both challenges and opportunity in its ambitious attempts to expand across China.

Ausnutria Dairy

The Chinese-Australian joint venture hopes to build its reputation as a high-quality imported milk powder brand.

Mengniu

Sales at China's biggest dairy producer are expected to recover to 90% of pre-melamine scandal levels this year.

Yili: returning to health

Consumers are once again getting a taste for Yili's dairy products following its involvement in last year's contaminated milk scandal.

American Dairy's cash cow

The company's milk powder sales are booming thanks to escaping last year's melamine milk scandal.

Disintermediation driving bank profits

China's big state banks are moving away from plain vanilla lending to grow profits.

Bruised Bank of China comes home

China's most international bank shifts its focus back home to recover losses from earlier subprime exposure.

Commodities in the limelight

Interest in China equities bounced back in the last two weeks with China's energy and material sectors in particular seeing record inflows.

Monetary policy: spectres loom

Concerns over the future of credit expansion are weighing on market sentiment.

China gears up for Copenhagen

As China prepares for the Copenhagen summit, wind power shows both the scale of its ambition and the size of the challenge it faces.

China's 'Me Commerce' Revolution

Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA China, a consultancy, writes on China's journey from the periphery to the vanguard of the e-commerce revolution, at least at home.

Power price hikes

China has raised non-residential electricity prices for the first time since July 2008.

Is renminbi appreciation really on the cards?

Recent comments by China's central bank that the renminbi has some room for adjustment have sparked another round of debate internationally about the need for appreciation. But what do China's economists think?