Welcome to the first episode of The Wire China podcast, in which we will take you behind the scenes of the stories we cover each week in our magazine, thewirechina.com.

In this episode, news editor Andrew Peaple talks to reporter Rachel Cheung about her latest cover story on China's fast-growing robotaxi industry, and whether a recent spate of accidents involving self-driving cars will drive the sector off course. 

We also have an extract from our latest Q&A, with Chinese economist David Daokui Li, and a guide to the other articles you can read in this week's edition, which you can read at thewirechina.com