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China’s ageing workforce: As the country gets older, will Big Tech’s ageist glass ceiling crack? Josh Ye josh.ye@scmp.com China s ageist glass ceiling may need to crack as country s median age creeps up and pool of young talent becomes smaller. Image: SCMP
This is the 15th in a series of stories about China s once-a-decade census, which was conducted in 2020. The world s most populous nation released its national demographic data in May and the figures will have far-reaching social policy and economic implications.
As soon as Annie Li told the recruitment manager at a Chinese gaming company that she was 35 years old and married without children, she said the tone of her job interview shifted abruptly.
China digital currency: when will the e-yuan be launched, and what will it be used for? Karen Yeung, Andrew Mullen China began exploring the concept of a national virtual currency in 2014 with the success of e-commerce platforms Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu. Photo: Bloomberg
When will China s sovereign digital currency be launched?
China has not announced an official timetable for the official launch of its Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) system.
The first glimpse of the planned digital currency emerged in April 2020 when a screenshot of a test version developed by the Agricultural Bank of China was leaked.
Trials of the digital yuan began in May 2020 in four cities - Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and the Xiongan zone near Beijing.
"Return them to their home countries!" flashed my iPhone home screen, accompanied by a red, scowling, furious emoji. The notification bubble came in reference to a 60-second TikTok video in which I had leaked word that my employer, Stanford University, had just acquired the single largest historical collection of modern Chinese information technology - largest not just in the United States, but the world. Containing more than 2,500 archival.