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China wants to become carbon neutral by 2060 and reduce its emissions from 2030 at the latest. The 14th Five-Year Plan must contain the first concrete measures to achieve this. The announced draft gives the topic a lot of space, but details are available only in the plan itself.
By Christiane Kuehl
It hasn't been a good year for Jack Ma – or for his billion-dollar fortune. Three countrymen have overtaken the Alibaba founder in the rich ranking. The richest Chinese is now 66-year-old Zhong Shanshan. He made his money not with a tech company or real estate but to a large extent with mineral water.
By Redaktion Table
If you look through the list of names of the members of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party, you will see 女 in brackets behind some of the names – the sign for "female". Although women make up nearly one-third of the party, they are rarely found in top offices. Xi Jinping's return to Confucianism reinforces this tendency because it envisions a patriarchal order.
By Ning Wang
Many older Chinese feel left behind by the country's rapid digitization. China's government wants to close the "digital divide" between young and older people by 2022. This means more social integration, but also more consumption – and thus follows the logic of the 14th Five-Year Plan. For companies, at any rate, the target group of senior citizens is a long underestimated growth market.
By Frank Sieren
