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The Chinese dream of obtaining funding freely and easily has come up against harsh reality in the peer to peer (P2P) lending industry. Although P2P company Renrendai announced in January that its parent company had received $130 million in Series A funding and Dianrong.com announced $12 million in first round lending, the P2P lending industry has experienced a growing number of platform collapses or withdrawal difficulties, with 58 companies going bankrupt in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Andrew Collier and Sara Hsu say a study of loans to China's SMEs shows their considerable reliance on the shadow banking system, raising their risk exposure to any liquidity crunch.

China Bank Corp.

After four months of business and management training, 94 students graduated from the 10th class of the 10000 Women Entrepreneurship Track Program for Chinese Women in China's capital city of Beijing on December 29, 2013.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) drive the sources of economic vitality and, more importantly, create jobs and improve people’s livelihoods. In China, however, a conflict persists between the importance of SMEs and their financing difficulties, which has raised an academic concern as to the issue of SME financial services.

China has made significant achievements in improving its energy efficiency and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in recent years, mainly through rolling out regulations with large, state‐owned enterprises, which tend to be the country’s biggest emitters. Such policy enforcement efforts‐although have shown fast and impressive results – have left the majority of the smaller and privately-owned companies unaffected, and thus impeding further major breakthroughs in the country’s mitigation efforts.

The CHUEE Program is a successful, innovative market-based solution to China's energy and environmental challenges. The program enables key players to collaborate in creating a sustainable financing model to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and promote cleaner production.

The CHUEE Program is a successful, innovative market-based solution to China's energy and environmental challenges. The program enables key players to collaborate in creating a sustainable financing model to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and promote cleaner production.

Major measures and achievements regarding retail payment services in China are