Q&A: Ingrid Yin on China’s healthcare industry and new medical technologies
Ingrid Yin is the co-founder and portfolio manager of MayTech Global Investments, a New York–based firm that specializes in…
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China’s CDC director: ‘Please don’t lose confidence in Chinese-made vaccines’
Following a string of high-profile vaccine scandals in recent years, Gāo Fú 高福, the director of the Chinese Center…
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Baidu threatens to sue a journalist for mentioning its past scandals
Baidu, China’s top search engine, has come under intense fire after threatening a prominent Chinese journalist with legal action…
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The quiet wave of corporations funding Chinese healthcare startups
“Trade war and censors blow chill wind through China’s giant tech scene,” reads this Reuters headline from last month….
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Sinica Podcast: Matthew Kohrman on China’s unyielding tobacco industry
This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live: Listen to it now! This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and…
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China’s continued food and drug quality problems
As Chinese products gain prominence and are integrated into the global supply chain, quality assurances for products from the…
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The next Chinese behemoths: Healthcare companies
In October last year, China’s State Council announced…
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NEXT CHINA: A conversation with Roberta Lipson on Chinese healthcare
We spoke with Roberta Lipson, CEO of Chindex and Beijing Family United — the largest hospital chain in China…
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What we don’t talk about when we talk about cancer
The Financial Times (paywall) reports that in contemporary China, it’s common…
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First mental health-focused company goes public in China
In China, mental health issues are poorly understood and often stigmatized…
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What ails China’s healthcare system? Roberta Lipson has a detailed diagnosis
Roberta Lipson is one of the most successful foreign entrepreneurs in China of the last three decades. In…
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Cadmium poison in a battery-making town
Caixin has published an exposé (paywall) on Xinxiang, a town in central Henan Province that once…
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China’s reproductive health market worth $15 billion?
China’s market for in vitro fertilization (IVF) was worth $670 million in 2016 and is expected to increase…
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‘Nobody talked about the disease’ — breast cancer in China
SHANGHAI — When Xu Zhizhen 徐志珍 (pictured above) was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1985, she knew next to…
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Chinese cosmocrats — from mission control to the governor’s office
Rocket men for the government During the first 30 years of “reform and opening up” (1978–2008), China’s government was…
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