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Foreigners in China: a fleeting minority?

The shine of China's free-market reforms is peeling off due to constant arbitrary interference by nation and party. And even with Beijing's policy of opening up the country, which it has promised for the past 40 years, no state can be formed upon. This has once again been proven by the low number of foreigners residing in China. The new census counted 845,697 foreigners in the whole country. This equals only 0.06 percent of the population. With its proportion of foreigners, the supposedly globalized People's Republic brings up the rear among all other major nations.

By Amelie Richter

Feature

Solar power from space

China wants to send a 1-gigawatt solar power station into orbit by the mid-century. Generating solar power in space has long been considered science fiction. But the threat of a climate catastrophe and Beijing's growing ambitions in space are now moving technology to a whole new realm of possibility. First tests are already scheduled for this year. The Chinese are thus further ahead than their international competitors.

By Frank Sieren

Opinion

The Pandemic’s Impact on China’s Growth Prospects

The director of the Institute of World Economy and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yu Yongding, expresses concern about China's growth prospects for the second half of the year. He harbors doubts about the zero-covid strategy and urges the right fiscal and monetary policies to ensure that measures also reach small and medium-sized enterprises.

By Redaktion Table