China’s manufacturing powerhouse cuts 2026 GDP growth target after missing mark
China’s premier manufacturing hub is recalibrating its economic ambitions, with policymakers in the industrial heartland of Guangdong setting…
Explainer | How are US tariffs and trade barriers redrawing China’s export map?
Despite a slowing economy, recurring trade frictions and intensifying price competition, the value of China’s exports rose in…
China’s hi-tech push, Aids and poverty fights in focus as vice-premiers tour provinces
High technology and low incomes were in sharp focus in China late last week as two of its…
Local Chinese government’s stimulus plan entices big spenders to dig in while dining out
A local government in China’s provincial economic powerhouse of Zhejiang has announced plans to subsidise the restaurant meals…
Chinese man spends US$120,000 on 300-year gym membership, seeks refund; owner vanishes
A man in eastern China has sued a gym after he paid it more than 870,000 yuan (US$120,000)…
China’s youth seek stability over entrepreneurship as economy lags
In a departure from the “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” encouraged among China’s youth in the 2010s, in a…