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A Shanghai-produced micro drama series titled Ling Tan (Adventure of a Ghost) has drawn widespread attention, with its views across multiple online video platforms quickly surpassing 10 million views.
Yet projections indicate China will remain the world's largest importer of agricultural products such as soybeans in the near future. A notable trend is diversification of import sources.
Final consumption expenditure contributed 53.5 percent to economic growth in the first three quarters of 2025, up 9 percentage points from the full-year figure of the previous year, said the National Bureau of Statistics.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China cultivated a number of backbone enterprises in the bio-manufacturing sector with an annual operating revenue exceeding 10 billion yuan.
An offshore multi-purpose service vessel completes operations on an offshore oil platform in the Bohai Sea, China.China's largest offshore oilfield, the Bohai Oilfield, has produced over 40 million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2025, setting a historical record, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on Sunday.
China's island province of Hainan reported robust trade and soaring duty-free sales as it launched its island-wide special customs operations on Thursday.
China has urged the European Union to immediately stop its unreasonable actions against Chinese companies operating within the bloc and use the Foreign Subsidies Regulation investigation tool prudently, said the Ministry of Commerce.
Hainan Free Trade Port has taken a major step in China's opening-up as islandwide special customs operations come into effect, fully implementing a policy framework featuring zero tariffs, low tax rates, a simplified tax system, and freer trade and investment.
The logo of TikTok.Affiliates of certain existing ByteDance investors will hold 30.1 percent, while ByteDance will retain 19.9 percent, according to the memo. The joint venture will be "majority owned by American investors, governed by a new seven-member majority-American board of directors, and subject to terms that protect Americans' data and U.S.
An aerial drone photo taken on Nov 21 shows Yangpu International Container Port in Yangpu Economic Development Zone, Hainan province."With China's strong consumption fundamentals and policy support, we are fully committed to long-term investment in Hainan FTP," said Seth.
China is strengthening its maritime legal framework, actively participating in the formulation of international rules and using multiple measures to position itself as a preferred venue for international maritime dispute resolution, the country's top court said.
Wu Mouyuan, vice-president of the institute, attributed the global resilience to sustained growth in oil consumption in emerging economies and steady demand for chemical feedstocks and aviation fuels.
China firmly opposes and strongly condemns the U.S. plan to sell massive advanced weapons to China's Taiwan region, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun at a press conference on Thursday.
As of 10:45 p.m. on Thursday, China's year-end box office (November 28–December 31) has exceeded 4 billion yuan (about $570 million), according to online platform data.
A foreign vessel carrying 179,000 metric tons of petrochemical raw materials berths at Yangpu Port in Danzhou, Hainan province, on Thursday, following the official launch of the island-wide special customs operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port.
He said the policy direction aligns with the recommendations for formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) to "promote common prosperity and increase the share of household income in national income".
A sharp hit of ginger, a squeeze of lemon and a lingering warmth that runs from mouth to belly, turmeric drinks, dubbed "liquid gold" by young consumers, are emerging as hot winter hits in the country, a signal of the rise of health-focused beverages.
On the production floor of Visionox, one of the world's leading suppliers of advanced displays based in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, a line of technicians in cleanroom suits closely monitor a sheet of deep-purple glass the size of a door.
Even in mid-December, farmlands at the Nanfan Scientific and Research Breeding Base in the southern Hainan city of Sanya remain a lush green. Rice, cotton, soybeans and a wide range of grain, fruit and vegetable crops thrive here. Lin Dezheng, a 35-year-old farmer, moves between the fields, carefully recording key growth data for the crops.
For many Chinese people, Sanya in South China's Hainan province is the ideal destination for coastal tourism. However, for many business startups, the city is emerging as a prime choice for entrepreneurial success.
Justin Yifu Lin, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, told China Perspective in a recent exclusive interview that China is expected to step up policy efforts next year to address key bottlenecks in building a unified national market.
China will step up macroeconomic policy support next year, intensifying efforts to expand domestic demand, deepen market reforms and stabilize the property sector, officials and experts said.
China on Thursday launched island-wide special customs operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), the world's largest FTP by area, allowing freer entry of overseas goods, expanded zero-tariff coverage and more business-friendly measures.
As China's Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) launched island-wide special customs operations Thursday, the first batch of petrochemical raw and auxiliary materials imported under the zero-tariff policy arrived at Yangpu Economic Development Zone.
An e-commerce host guides customers through off-island duty-free online shopping in Haikou, Hainan province, on Wednesday. The Hainan Free Trade Port starts island-wide special customs operations on Thursday.
Expanding domestic demand will be the top priority of China's economic policy in 2026, according to an official from the Office of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs.
China has approved market access for its first batch of Level 3 autonomous driving passenger vehicles, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Monday, a milestone in the commercial rollout of conditionally automated driving technology.
Economists expect China's 2026 policy agenda to place greater weight on domestic demand and innovation-led growth, sharpening the focus on long-term expansion and rebalancing the country's growth model.
The National Archives Administration of China on Saturday published a batch of declassified Russia-provided archives on Soviet interrogations of the Japanese Unit 731 in Khabarovsk. The archives contain interrogation records of Unit 731 members and investigation reports on the unit's crime
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