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Kai Ryssdal discusses why GM is such a success story in China and whether the Chinese are ready to help drive the global economy.

A four-hour trip turns into an hour-and-a-half ride as passengers bullet through China's countryside at 210 mph.

All the cranes are gone. There are no new skyscrapers going up. One of the centers of Chinese capitalism isn't building anymore.

A lot has changed since Marketplace visited China for a special two-week broadcast in 2006. Host Kai Ryssdal offers some observations from his visit this time around.

Kai Ryssdal and team check in from China with an audio excerpt from day one of their two-week reporting trip. The topic: Weather.

This week, Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal and a small team return to China — retracing the steps they took nearly five years ago on a similar trip — to see what has changed.