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China Stocks Make Sharpest Daily Fall Since 2007 – China Real Time Report – WSJ

China stocks made their sharpest daily percentage decline since 2007, as worries mount that authorities are pulling back on its measures to prop up the market. As WSJ’s Chao Deng reports: The Shanghai Composite Index ended down 8.5% at 3725.56, its second-straight day of losses and worst daily percentage fall since February 27, 2007. China’s main index is up 6% from its recent low on July 8, but…

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China's business magazine Caijing interviews Prevendra's CEO

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Here's a brief excerpt from the piece.  Hu Deping is Hu Yaobang's son; the elder Hu was a reformer in the Deng Xiaoping era until party conservatives were able to purge him in 1987.  The article also pulls out some quotes from a Study Times editorial that criticized the current leadership's policies over the past decade.

China's president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, has said the ruling Communist Party must embrace reform with fresh vigor to stave off social and economic malaise, sources said, citing accounts of comments he made at a meeting with a party reformer.

Xi met the prominent reformer, Hu Deping, in the past six weeks, the sources said, in a gesture intended to show he was listening to voices calling for not only faster economic liberalization but also a relaxation of political controls.

China's new leadership team, to take the reins of power from March next year, faces a slowing economy and demands from inside and outside the party to tackle problems that reformists see as threats to both growth and social stability - such as a yawning wealth gap, limited political freedom and corruption.

"The problems that China has accumulated are unprecedented," one of the sources said, paraphrasing what he said was a written summary of Xi's remarks circulated among some retired officials.