A county supermarket owner's purchase ledger reveals why groceries can cost more in small towns than in Shanghai—and how logistics, scale, and competition shape the prices ...

In a mountainous county in Guizhou that was officially poor just over a decade ago, workers now sand, glue, spray and tune millions of guitars a ...

A hand-poured specialty coffee for 35 yuan—about five US dollars—now shows up in Chinese county towns and even villages. Who is buying it, and what does ...