China is stuck in its longest deflation crisis in decades, and the numbers keep getting worse. Prices across the country have ...

When he bought an apartment near a good high school in northeast Beijing in 2020, Zhou Fujin expected that renting it out ...

China's consumer price index in February missed expectations and fell at the sharpest pace in 13 months, while producer price ...

Consumer prices in China have plunged to their lowest level in more than a year, highlighting persistent deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy.

Falling prices tend to weaken demand, hurt growth and deter credit uptake—all of which can form a doom loop. Will Beijing’s ...

Residents play chess at a park in northeastern Beijing's Miyun district on Feb. 27, 2025. | Ng Han Guan/AP Deflation is an abstract economic concept but it reflects very concretely in Zhou’s ...

Deflation is an abstract economic concept but it reflects very concretely in Zhou’s personal balance sheet, as it does for millions of others. Zhou’s apartment, in Beijing’s Miyun district ...

China's leaders are overseeing a spell of deflation, or falling prices, that contrasts with inflationary pressures prevailing elsewhere in the world BEIJING -- When he bought an apartment near a ...

Tightened purse strings Deflation is an abstract economic concept ... Zhou’s apartment, in Beijing’s Miyun district, cost 2 million yuan ($275,000) when he bought it in 2020, and he financed ...

BEIJING (AP) — When he bought an apartment near a good high school in northeast Beijing in 2020, Zhou Fujin expected that renting it out would cover most of his mortgage. But the apartment's ...