In the heart of what used to be China’s industrial hub lie the remnants of a long-forgotten era. The northeastern territories, comprising the three provinces Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, form ...

Local-level debt, an imbalanced industrial structure and population outflows continue to take a hefty toll on efforts to revitalise China's poorer regions Traditional economic pillars of China's ...

Dongbei, as China’s cold and gritty north-east is known, has traditionally been more famous for its economic struggles than for its cultural exports. Once booming under Mao because of its coal mines ...

In gritty tales from China’s northeast, Shuang Xuetao chronicles a traumatic chapter of Chinese history with fresh resonance today: the mass layoffs that afflicted the region in the 1990s. By Vivian ...