China’s middle-income population passes 500 million mark, state-owned newspaper says

by Mandy Zuo at scmp.com China’s middle-income population has passed the 500 million mark, according to a commentary in a state-owned newspaper published on Sunday. The country is currently trying to boost domestic consumption and the front-page article in Economic Daily – published under the byline Zhao Caiwen, a pen name linked to the Communist Party’s Central […]