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Jennifer Pak

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China Correspondent at Marketplace

China correspondent for @ampubmedia @Marketplace. Ex-BBC & Telegraph via Shenzhen, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Calgary, Grande Prairie. Views are my own.

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Articles

  • EV features on Chinese cars you won't see in the U.S.

    1 week ago | marketplace.org | Jennifer Pak

    Seventy percent of the nearly 1,300 cars on display at the Shanghai auto show, which ended last week, were electric vehicles. They were mostly brands unfamiliar to Americans, such as China’s XPeng Motors, Deepal, and NIO. Chinese EV makers pack their cars with a lot of features. XPeng’s flagship electric sedan, the P7+, is spacious with soft leather seats that also have heating, cooling and massage functions.

  • Why moms in China are not willing to have more children

    1 month ago | marketplace.org | Jennifer Pak

    Electronics factory worker Mo Guilan said she was doing an entry-level job in southern China’s Dongguan city, but her employer gave her all the usual maternity benefits. Once she told her bosses she was pregnant, they lightened her job load to make sure she was not overworked and had a basic three-month maternity leave. Still, Mo is not keen to have more children. “I won’t consider a second child for health and financial reasons,” she said.

  • Why so much shoe manufacturing is still concentrated in China

    1 month ago | marketplace.org | Jennifer Pak

    Dozens of workers at a shoe factory in southern China’s Dongguan city glue, sew and buff foam slippers and canvas shoes. They punch every hole and lace every shoe by hand. “Every lacing is [done] manually. There is no robot. I think the big brands tried and failed,” James Gau, whose company ShoeBot owns the factory, said.

  • China's restaurant scene sees leaner times

    1 month ago | marketplace.org | Jennifer Pak

    Up until late last year, a popular brunch spot in Shanghai with free-flowing alcohol that was not too expensive was the Bull & Claw. “It was housed in a beautiful villa-style lane house [with] three floors,” said Rachel Gouk of the Shanghai-based food and drink blog Nomfluence.

  • Will homebuyers spring at lower rates?

    2 months ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Mitchell Hartman |Jennifer Pak

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Jennifer Pak @jpak25
25 Apr 25

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Jennifer Pak
Jennifer Pak @jpak25
25 Apr 25

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Jennifer Pak
Jennifer Pak @jpak25
9 Apr 25

RT @JChengWSJ: China’s Reaction to Tariffs: Fight to the End, But Open to Dialogue—China will fight to the end in a trade war with the U.S.…