Top news of the week:

• Xi stresses the healthy development of capital in China

  May 2, 2022

  On April 29, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and held its 38th group study session. Xi stressed the importance of regulating and guiding the healthy development of capital in China in accordance with the law, and give full play to the positive role of capital as an important factor of production.

• Authority urges to carry out the national safety special rectification on self-built houses

  May 3, 2022

  The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development urged to deploy the national self-built housing safety special rectification in response to the latest collapse of a self-built building with over 40 people dead or missing in Changsha, Hunan province. The meeting emphasized the significance of supervising and reimplementing the production safety work in the national housing and municipal projects, and effectively preventing and curbing the occurrence of serious accidents in production safety.

• The Ministry of Finance put substantial support on modern vocational education

  May 4, 2022

  To promote the high-quality development of modern vocational education the Ministry of Finance issued the 2022 Modern Vocational Education Quality Improvement Program with a funding budget of 5.276 billion yuan. Together with the 24.981 billion yuan issued in advance, China has invested in total 30.257 billion yuan to progress vocational education.

• FDI inflow sees steady growth in Q1 2022

  May 5, 2022

  According to the recently released economic statistics, China’s first quarter (Q1) growth showed a better-than-expected performance, with an increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) by 4.8 percent and a growing inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) by 25.6 percent. Among them, the current account surplus of $89.5 billion, with a ratio of 2.1% to the GDP in the same period, continues to be in a reasonable balance range; the net inflow of direct investment of $65 billion remains at a high level, according to the authority.

• China to introduce new actions to keep the economy stable

  May 6, 2022

  To keep the operations of market entities stable, China will provide greater support to stabilize and upgrade foreign trade and improve financial supply, according to the decision made at the State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang. The meeting also decided on policy steps for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and self-employed households, in an effort to promote employment stability.