There is a small organ sitting behind your breastbone, roughly the size of a walnut in adults, that most physicians have ...

A new wave of biomedical research is attempting to restore thymus function, potentially reshaping aging, immunity, and cancer ...

Investing.com --China’s central bank is moving to tighten discipline across the nation’s financial landscape, explicitly calling out "involution-style", or excessively distorted competition, as a ...

FibroBiologics developed a transplantable thymic micro-organoid system using selectively screened fibroblasts combined with thymic stromal cells. The organoids are produced through a rapid, three-day, ...

This was the most philosophical line I heard from a ride-hailing driver during my trip to Dali before the Spring Festival. He said that it lightly, with a touch of self-mockery, but I could hear the ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. You know the China story. Population? Huge. Economy? Very huge. Trade surpluses? Really huge. Maybe too huge. Even ...

As the period covered by China’s next five-year plan begins, the official newspaper of the country’s ruling Communist Party urged local governments to curb the herd behaviour that could fuel ...

The term “involution”, meaning curling inward, became common slang in China in the 2020s to reflect excessive competition in social and economic life, where students, workers and even business leaders ...

China’s “anti-involution” policy to tackle deflation, announced in 2024, is still in its early stages. Lower import prices for Chinese goods can ripple through trading partners’ economies. Investors ...

The term “involution”内巻[nèi juǎn]) originally referred to social problems in China related to excessive competition (Note 1). Especially among the younger generations, it was at first used to ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a senior adjunct researcher at the Rand Corporation’s China Research Center and senior associate ...