But the supercharged competition driving that trend is causing problems within China itself, including deflation and thin or ...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) convened a symposium with photovoltaic (PV) industry entrepreneurs on Wednesday, listening to opinions and suggestions from key ...

The word “involution”, or neijuan – referring to excessive competition in social and economic life – has become a common slang term in China. Students, workers and even business leaders have been ...

The term “involution”, meaning curling inward, became common slang in China in the 2020s to reflect excessive competition in social and economic life, where students, workers and even business leaders ...

Whether you spent or saved a lot of money in 2025 or simply find yourself holding steady, one item all savers can agree on is that it's important to protect and grow their funds further in 2026.

China’s efforts to curb overcapacity in the new energy sector can act as a window of opportunity for economies seeking to diversify from Chinese suppliers or leverage it to seek concessions in export ...

Increased innovation could alleviate “involution” in China – the cutthroat, low-quality price competition in sectors ranging from electric vehicles (EVs) to food delivery that Beijing has been ...

China’s “anti-involution” policy to tackle deflation, announced in 2024, is still in its early stages. Lower import prices for Chinese goods can ripple through trading partners’ economies. Investors ...

Investing.com - China’s government has a deflation problem. Downward price pressures in the world’s second-biggest economy persisted into September, when consumer and producer prices contracted from a ...

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Since the Communist Party of China Central Committee put forward the call to comprehensively pursue anti-involution, the market has largely interpreted it as a supply-side policy — essentially "supply ...

China is gripped by an insidious problem that is eroding its economy: It is trapped in a cycle of competition so fierce that it is destroying profits, driving a brutal rat race among workers and ...