• China Securities Journal: government spending is expected to grow faster in 2012 than 2011
  • China Daily: officials looking to crack down on insider trading
  • People’s Daily: China will make changes to its consumption tax, which covers cigarettes, alcohol, cosmetics and jewellery, an official said without specifics
  • People’s Daily: China to raise subsidies to rural families to encourage births

The last one puzzles me. China has spent decades trying to discourage births and is now subsidizing them? I guess those are the pitfalls of central planning.