Frida Qi, who grew up in Beijing, is a journalism graduate of the University of Missouri. She is a fan of cooking, tennis and traveling.
According to official statistics and analysts, China might have been one of the only major countries to see economic growth in 2020 after taking a hit from COVID-19 early in the year. That growth streak, even during a pandemic, has continued into January 2021.
Huiyuan Juice, famous for its advertising slogan “Only with Huiyuan is it the real Lunar New Year,” won’t have a happy new year in 2021: The company was delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Market on January 18.
Chinese tech companies are raring to go in 2021, with two companies aiming to IPO, and five planning secondary listings in China.
China issued new rules, with immediate effect, asking Chinese companies not to follow “unjustified” commercial prohibition or restriction from foreign legislation. Though the Ministry of Commerce did not name any country, analysts pointed out that this was China’s legal reaction to the U.S. blacklistings of Chinese companies.