Party and State

People walk across a street during the morning rush hour in Beijing

Party and State

China’s Social Credit System in 2021: From fragmentation towards integration

Katja Drinhausen

Vincent Brussee

Report

Mar 03, 2021

Research

Party and State

A look ahead at the National People's Congress

Briefing

Feb 25, 2021

Chinese Lunar New Year reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

Top central banker suggests permanent scrapping of growth targets

Short analysis

Jan 28, 2021

China in 2021: agenda setting, anniversaries, and potential for conflict

Briefing

Dec 10, 2020

MERICS Web Seminar: China’s coming 5-year-plan

What can we expect in investments, trade and social development?

Video

Nov 19, 2020

Workers’ strikes highlight cracks in great vision for domestic consumption

Short analysis

Nov 12, 2020

MERICS Web Seminar: An end to poverty in China by 2020?

Video

Oct 29, 2020

Mainland China celebrations contrast sharply with heavy policing in Hong Kong

Short analysis

Oct 08, 2020

Food security rises as concern for China’s leadership

Short analysis

Oct 08, 2020

Reports about Tibet, muddy Xinjiang propaganda blitz

Short analysis

Sep 24, 2020

Insights

Party and State

China, business and democracy (La Repubblica - IT)

Lucrezia Poggetti

Opinion

Feb 05, 2021

The party decides - China's values at home and abroad (DW Podcast)

Katja Drinhausen

Oct 01, 2020

China's repression in Xinjiang and the reluctant international response (ntv)

Katja Drinhausen

Sep 06, 2020

National People's Congress celebrates Xi Jinping's success (SWR)

May 24, 2020

"The National People's Congress will be a difficult balancing act"

Press release

May 20, 2020

Chinese Communist Party: The ideologists are back (Zeit Online)

Nis Grünberg

Dec 16, 2019

MERICS China Dispute: 70th anniversary of PRC - Can the CCP deliver its "China Dream"?

Podcast

Oct 01, 2019

Merics Experts 91 - China Dispute_70th anniversary PRC_final.mp3

Celebrate the people, not the Party (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

Kristin Shi-Kupfer

Sep 26, 2019

The Peoples Republic celebrates its 70th anniversary

“The Communist Party is readying China for battles ahead“

Press release

Sep 26, 2019

Events

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Party and State

China’s coming 5-year-plan: What can we expect in investments, trade and social development?

Nov. 17, 2020

A villager shoulders collected chestnuts home in Wangmo County, Guizhou Province

Party and State

An end to poverty in China by 2020?

Oct. 28, 2020

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