Through his magazine Painkiller, Yang Yu has introduced a whole generation of Chinese music fans to heavy metal. He developed a taste for hard sounds in Germany.
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Alexander Pollich is to turn the tide of declining sales for Porsche in China. He is one of the most experienced managers in the industry – and yet his assignment will be the biggest test of his career.
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Xu Zheng, one of China's best-known directors and actors, seems to have pulled off another box office hit: His new film focuses on the country's immense economic problems – and ends on a hopeful note.
By Jörn Petring
Starbucks' sales in China are on the decline. Can the new CEO Brian Niccol stop the trend? He certainly has no explicit China experience.
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Not a touch of Paris, but of Anhui: Temu and Pingduoduo boss Colin Huang does not focus on luxury with his sales apps, but on the things that people away from the big cities need. With success: He is now China's wealthiest person.
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Wang Weidong, one of the country's leading anti-corruption officials, is tasked with disciplining the country's 66 trillion dollar financial industry.
By Jörn Petring
As Managing Director of the China Netzwerk Baden-Wuerttemberg, Jochen Schultz networks German SMEs with the People's Republic. But he also has a good connection to the state government.
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Hu Xijin has been deeply rooted in the Communists' propaganda system for decades – and is known for his criticism of the West. However, the former Global Times editor-in-chief has also repeatedly voiced internal criticism. Now, he has apparently gone too far.
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Zheng Qinwen became the first Chinese woman to win gold in singles tennis at the Olympic Games in Paris. The 21-year-old had been dreaming of a medal for China from an early age – and somehow even predicted it in a commercial.
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Yu Xinyan's documentary "Made in Ethiopia" explores the social tensions surrounding the construction of a Chinese industrial park in Ethiopia. Yu's family story reveals the light and shadows that China's economic rise has brought to his own society.
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