Growing Pains

China’s breakneck industrial growth, its relentless construction of roads, harbors, airports, factories and office towers, and the resulting assault on the environment, have made the country’s economic miracle at once awe-inspiring and alarming to behold – and guarantee that the road to the future will be full of pitfalls as well as promise.

In Search of a Chinese Silicon Valley

By Patrick Michels

Makepolo.com founder Morgan Su hopes to grow his product search site into a global hit.

If there is a Silicon Valley to be found in China, Zhongguancun—a Beijing neighborhood full of universities and electronics dealers—is it. But can it produce an innovation culture to compete with California?

The Acupuncturist

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American doctor Shelley Oches explains why she came to China to study traditional Chinese medicine under Dr. Wang Juyi.

When Fuel Prices Rise in the Land of Production

After months of waiting in line at diesel stations because of a national shortage, the government raises domestic fuel prices in an effort to close the gap between global oil prices and the domestic rate.