By Timmy Shen

The head of the Chinese central bank’s international department, said at a recent forum that the country could adopt a negative list for future financial opening-up associated with free trade agreements.

By Peng Qinqin and Timmy Shen

Chinese regulators are moving to unify the country’s fragmented interbank and exchange bond markets. China’s bond market is the world’s second largest, worth some $15.4 trillion, but each part operates independently, overseen by two different regulators.

By Liu Caiping and Timmy Shen

Foreign investors are flocking to China’s capital markets like never before as the government has implemented opening policies to attract overseas money. Nevertheless, it’s a work in progress and challenges still remain for foreign institutions when it comes to market access and the business environment.

By Gavin Cross and Qizhi Zhang

“New infrastructure” is among the hottest economic policy topics at the moment, and its importance was reinforced at the Two Sessions last week. The government work report raised the local government special purpose bond quota to prioritize new infrastructure and new urbanization projects.

By Guo Yingzhe and Peng Qinqin

China’s central bank is stepping up efforts to help small companies weather the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic as part of a broader government strategy to support the economy and protect jobs.

By Timmy Shen

While the hotly debated annual growth goal for GDP will grab the headlines, Li’s work report will also outline measures to guide the country’s recovery from the outbreak of Covid-19, and how monetary and fiscal policies will be coordinated and adjusted to meet the government’s objectives.

By Xiao Hui, Wang Su, Zhao Ning and Denise Jia

There is still a lot of work for social organizations and civil society groups to do in the ongoing epidemic, and this will continue into post-disaster reconstruction.

By Diane Mak

Philanthropy has developed in recent years as a widespread, systematic practice in Asia, where there emerges the ultra-rich and a distinct socioeconomic middle class, and exists a strong desire to give back.

By Xu Yongguang

Facing external challenges as well as the industry’s own demand for a change, Chinese foundations are working toward a breakthrough.

By Liu Caiping and Lu Yutong

Chinese traders, refiners and suppliers have all flocked to hoard oil at bargain rates, which has led to a significant rise in inventory and pushed companies to expand storage capacity.

By Wu Hongyuran, Luo Guoping, Timmy Shen and Denise Jia

Investors in a crude futures product sold by Bank of China Ltd. lost millions of yuan in the collapse of global crude prices, and they blame the bank for the losses amid the market turmoil.

By Yang Ge

The day started like any other gloomy Monday in the oil market’s worst crisis in a generation. It ended with prices falling below zero, thrusting markets into a parallel universe where traders were willing to pay $40 a barrel just to get somebody to take crude off their hands.

By Gao Yu and Timmy Shen

Thousands of Covid-19 cases may have gone undiagnosed in the early stages of the epidemic because of an overemphasis on patients’ contacts with the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan, according to doctors fighting the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

By Gao Yu, Xiao Hui, Bao Zhiming, Ding Gang and Han Wei

(Wuhan) — It took only a few minutes for Peng Zhiyong to make a decision that he knew could be highly risky — admitting a patient diagnosed with “unknown viral pneumonia.”

By Xiao Hui

(Wuhan)--In the coronavirus epidemic, doctors on the front lines take on the greatest risk and best understand the situation. Peng Zhiyong, director of acute medicine at the Wuhan University South Central Hospital, is one of those doctors.

By Ding Yi

Tesla is looking to make more car parts at its Shanghai factory as part of ongoing efforts to localize its supply chain in the world’s largest automobile market, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing a government document.

As the new coronavirus spreads around the world, it is having a severe impact on international trade, with many people worrying that the epidemic will exacerbate the “decoupling” of global commerce.

By An Limin and Isabelle Li

Tesla Inc. has been forced to “downgrade” some of its newly delivered Model 3 vehicles after restarting production at its Giga Shanghai factory on Feb. 10.

By Wu Hongyuran, Peng Qinqin, Wu Xiaomeng and Tang Ziyi

China’s central bank plans to lend 300 billion yuan ($42.6 billion) in cheap funds to banks, encouraging them to provide low-interest loans for struggling companies on the frontlines of the battle against the new coronavirus.

By Zhang Yu, Liu Caiping, Wang Juanjuan and Timmy Shen

Chinese companies have wasted no time taking advantage of a “green channel” created to fast-track bond sales by businesses needing money to fund operations related to the Covid-19 epidemic or who are suffering liquidity pressure stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.

By Yuan Ruiyang, Luo Guoping, Zheng Lingke, Sun Ziliang and Han Wei

Yao Tong, a quality inspector at Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, never expected his Lunar New Year holiday to drag on for 44 days when he headed home to Hunan in January. Like most of China’s millions of migrant workers, he thought it would be just another week-long family celebration.