In Q2 2019, China’s economy slowed down, growing by 6.2% y/y, a record low in 27 🌊years. However, total retail sales of consumer goods rose by 8.6% y/y in Q2 2019 to RMB 9,742bn, driven by gr🌠owing incomes, higher spending and the ...

The Philippi🍌nes insurance s🔯ector is one of the least developed in the ASEAN region, with insurance penetration and density significantly lower than those in some other large ASEAN countries including Indonesia and Thailand. However, incomes in the ...

The steel sector contributed about 2% of the Indian economy’s tot🌌al GVA in FY2018, employing 500,000 people directly and 2.5mn people indirectly. Indian crude steel production is th🍰e second-largest in the world and the domestic steel market is ...

China is the wo💛rld’s second largest pharmaceutical market after the US and the largest producer and exporter of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) globally. Since it is the world’s most populous country, with a largౠe share of ageing ...

India’s textile sector is the country’s oldest manufacturing industry. Textiles and apparel contributed 2.1% of India’s GDP, 12.65% of its manufacturing, and 12% of its exports in🃏 FY2018. Textiles is second only to🙈 agriculture in ...

With 1.4bn population each as of 2017, India and China are the most nume🔯rous countries out of the six forming the focus of this report. However, the two countries differ widely in terms of per capita GDP, with that of China being more than twice that ...

As the negative impact fro🐼m theꦬ life product restructuring continued to diminish, China’s insurance sector reported a stronger growth during Q4 2018. Total insurance premiums reached RMB 735.5bn in Q4, registering a y/y increase of 20.1%, about ...

As the negative impact from the life product restructuring continued to diminish, C🥃hina’s insurance sector reported a stronger growth during Q4 2018. Total insuraꦛnce premiums reached RMB 735.5bn in Q4, registering a y/y increase of 20.1%, about ...

China is the world’s largest producer of steel, accounting for 51% of the global steel production in 2018, accordin♑g to the World Steel Association. The data from China Iron and Steel Associa🔥tion (CISA) shows that in 2018, China produced more ...

The chemicals sector is one of the key pillars of the Chinese ꧙economy. It comprises five major subsectors – agricultural chemicals, basic chemicals, synthetic materials, coating and dyestuff, and special purpose chemicals. Over t💞he past two ...