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China’s hankering to ­harness the power of hydrogen has expanded to the bike-sharing industry – with a number of cities offering cyclists easy-to-ride ­bicycles powered by low- ­emission fuel – [...]

Eight years ago, when asked during a television interview for advice on how to become a billionaire, Wang Jianlin – then China’s richest man – gave an answer that is [...]

President Xi Jinping has ordered the country’s cadres to put employment and job creation “at the forefront of their mind”, as Beijing tries to anchor market confidence and maintain stability [...]

Chinese researchers have successfully bred a pig that can provide a large yield of lean protein for its meat-hungry population – a development official media has trumpeted as a boon [...]

Some of China’s top research bodies have sought to quash an online flurry of conspiracy theories that the US’ 1969 moon landing was faked – suggestions based on a lunar [...]

In the past year, Henry Zhu has had to say goodbye to dozens of colleagues. His employer, an independent clinical laboratory in Shanghai, has scaled down its workforce as a [...]

US President Joe Biden’s latest tariff increases on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and other goods may trigger similar actions from Europe and pace up a reshuffle of crowded industries inside [...]

At the end of each month, Sammy Lin – an account manager at a state-owned bank in Suzhou, Jiangsu province – receives her monthly salary in a form that would [...]

As business confidence reaches new lows and a law to support the mainland’s private firms works its way through the system, scholars have called on the government and Communist Party [...]

In the past few years, ­psychological counsellor Huang Jing has watched her business thrive. With any other industry, that would be cause for celebration – China has made private enterprise [...]

For several years, Guangzhou resident Lucy Nan spent a major portion of her income on her ­biggest hobby – collecting crafts ranging from family antiques to paintings. The unmarried 49-year-old [...]

Scientists have cut the growth cycle of a conventional rice variety in half in a desert greenhouse in Xinjiang, a welcome agricultural innovation for Beijing as it seeks new methods [...]

In 2014, Justin Lin Yifu, a prominent economist and adviser to the government, projected that the country would reach high-income status by 2022. Last month, after a decade in which [...]

China’s voluntary personal pension fund is expected to be extended nationwide this year as the country wrestles with unprecedented demographic challenges, including a rapidly ageing population. However, many people have [...]

Authorities in Beijing have taken aim at claims the country is exporting its excess industrial capacity, calling it the result of Western “over ­anxiety” and an excuse for trade protectionism. [...]

Police have detained five people for allegedly colluding to steal about 10,000 tonnes of corn ­valued at some 25 million yuan (HK$27 million) over a two-year period in a major [...]

Despite souring relations, there was still great potential for China and the European Union to boost their agri-food trade, the EU’s chief agricultural official said while urging Beijing to increase [...]

Beijing’s former ambassador to the European Union Fu Cong has been named as the country’s new permanent representative at the United Nations. Fu has led the nation’s diplomatic mission in [...]

For He Bin, a car dealer in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, 2024 is not expected to be an easy year despite Beijing’s pledge to again keep economic growth at “around [...]

The nation’s workplace gender gap significantly increased during the coronavirus pandemic and has continued to widen, researchers said, in the first paper showing the impact in the country of the [...]

While getting the lay of the land from economists and ­entrepreneurs, Premier Li Qiang painted a big bullseye on ­sustainable economic growth while acknowledging what has been a persistent lack [...]

China’s flourishing 5G market is expected to add almost US$260 billion to its gross domestic product in 2030, with its connections accounting for nearly a third of the worldwide total, [...]

It appears to be just a matter of time before China’s central bank pulls out a controversial monetary policy tool that it has not used in more than two decades, [...]

China’s top leadership has gone all out to revive confidence and lure foreign investment in ­intensive meetings with overseas business leaders in recent days, setting out the “win-win ­opportunities ahead”, [...]

The state health insurance system regulator has called for more enrolment in rural areas, while dismissing widespread concerns over a falling participation rate. In the latest response to a worrisome [...]

The central bank has appointed two prominent economists to its policy advisory body at a time when Beijing is embarking on a new mission to become a financial superpower and [...]

One of the country’s biggest ­economic locomotives is gearing up to roll out an action plan that it hopes will fuel foreign investment in research and development, in its latest [...]

The country’s drinks giant Nongfu Spring, its largest bottled water producer, has become the latest target in a series of attack ­campaigns from an increasingly vocal constituency of nationalists online, [...]

Under the unassuming WeChat profile “Baishun Farmer’s Property”, Zhang Ming provides updates on a large and growing market. He shares details of new village houses in suburban Shanghai that are [...]

Despite a famous dictum ­popularised decades ago by late leader Mao Zedong – that “women hold up half the sky” – gender disparities continue to have an outsize impact in [...]

China is mulling providing equal social benefits for its 300 million migrant workers, a move that would grant that group the same level of coverage as urban residents and, the [...]

China’s middle-income population has passed the 500 million mark, according to a commentary in a state-owned newspaper published yesterday. The country is trying to boost domestic consumption and the front-page [...]

Economic issues such as market confidence, private sector sentiment and youth employment are expected to top the agenda at the “two sessions” this week, following a highly choreographed government briefing [...]

A former official has warned that the nation must steel itself in the midst of a “finance war”, with anticipated interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve luring a [...]

The financial sector needs to focus on supporting the real economy and must refrain from “fake financial innovation”, state media has proclaimed amid a tightening of regulations as Beijing seeks [...]

Increased efforts to seek technological advancement in agriculture to ensure food security could be undermined by exaggerated figures in crop yield tests, state media has warned. While record-breaking yields of [...]

China’s new financial regulator has made fresh pledges to increase regulatory transparency, stability and predictability, the latest of several attempts to restore investor confidence following a stock meltdown and high-profile [...]

The nation must put the onus on better implementation and coordination of economic reforms to address deep-rooted issues and energise growth, according to state media. Effective and targeted reforms are [...]

After carefully reviewing the ­interest rates offered by several banks for lump-sum term ­deposits, Li Yuan put 200,000 yuan (HK$217,650) in a small local institution, ensuring that her hard-earned savings [...]

Regarded as one of the “iron rice bowls” of China, teaching has remained a much sought-after option for Chinese jobseekers in an era of economic uncertainty. But they may find [...]

A folk belief that getting married in the coming lunar year could bring bad luck has garnered enough attention that central authorities have taken notice, as Chinese people debate the [...]

Profits at China’s largest industrial enterprises, having suffered their second straight yearly decline in 2023, are expected to see a moderate rise this year thanks to an improved export outlook [...]

From today, billions of Chinese are expected to join the world’s largest human migration, which is set to be the biggest ever as China embraces the first Lunar New Year [...]

Beijing has sent one of its strongest warnings against falsifying data, calling the practice “the biggest corruption in the statistical sphere” after it became a violation of Communist Party discipline. [...]

A cash-strapped local government inHebei province was named and shamed for arbitrarily fining road users and faking their signatures, the latest example of a struggling authority using unorthodox revenue schemes [...]

Israel’s ambassador in China has called on entrepreneurs to strengthen investment in her country, particularly in emerging sectors including food tech – even as the crisis in the Gaza Strip [...]

It’s 11am on a recent morning, and Shanghai’s normally quiet Huanghe Road is nearly overrun by a deluge of diners with a taste for nostalgic culture. Tai Sheng Yuan, the [...]

With a record 11.79 million students expected to graduate from universities this year, where they enlist their services has become an outsize concern when the post-pandemic recovery is slow and [...]

China has reported a population drop for the second consecutive year and a record low birth rate, raising concerns over the long-term growth prospects of the world’s second-largest economy. The [...]

China’s economy could grow by 5.3 per cent this year, according to a top government think tank, despite lingering market concerns and increasing caution from international institutions. The Chinese Academy [...]