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China's foreign trade is positioned for steady expansion this year despite mounting pressures, building on the strengths exhibited last year — a sustained shift up the value chain in exports, a broadening network of global partners and a supersized domestic market opening wider to imports, said officials and experts.
China's automobile production and sales each exceeded 34 million units in 2025, setting new records and extending the country's position as the world's largest auto producer and market for a 17th consecutive year, industry data showed Wednesday.
China's foreign trade hit a record high in 2025, supported by a more diversified market structure and resilient private enterprises, official data showed on Wednesday.
A renewed clash between the White House and the Federal Reserve has raised fresh questions about the stability of U.S. economic policymaking, as political pressure on the central bank intensifies and uncertainty grows over who will succeed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
China's automobile production and sales reached 34.53 million units and 34.4 million units, respectively, in 2025 — up 10.4 percent and 9.4 percent year-on-year — both hitting record highs and ranking first globally for the 17th consecutive year, according to the latest data released on Wednesday by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
China has become a net exporter of industrial robots for the first time, as exports of the product exceeded imports in 2025, a customs official said on Wednesday.
Targeting over 310 million citizens aged 60 and above, the measures aim to cultivate a thriving silver economy by empowering businesses, boosting consumption, and integrating advanced technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Tuesday.E-commerce platforms and large supermarkets need to better match the supply and demand of elderly care services, the measures added.
Chinese startup Spirit AI has said that its Spirit v1.5 embodied intelligence foundation model now ranks first according to the RoboChallenge real-world robotics benchmark, surpassing a leading U.S. model.
On the first working day of 2026, Chongqing held the conference on enhancing the development capacity of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle. With senior local Party, government, and departmental leaders in attendance, the "first meeting of the new year" of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle unveiled a new development blueprint, following six years of national-level promotion and implementation.
Hainan's offshore duty-free market posted a strong start to 2026, with sales reaching 1.21 billion yuan (about $170 million) from Jan. 1 to 7, according to data released by Haikou Customs.
Shares of memory and storage companies have broadly risen amid growing AI-related demand, with SanDisk jumping 37.12 percent in a single week as of Friday, according to financial services firm Morningstar Brands.
A toy horse with its mouth accidentally stitched upside down has gone viral on Chinese social media, transforming what was once seen as a manufacturing defect into an unexpected bestseller in Yiwu, the trinket capital of the world in China's Zhejiang Province.
Chinese researchers on Sunday unveiled an artificial intelligence model designed to integrate meteorological factors into financial analysis at the second Financial Meteorology Academic Annual Conference held in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell revealed Sunday that the central bank had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, blasting the move as part of President Donald Trump's extraordinary pressure campaign on U.S. monetary policy decisions.
The latest letter to parliamentarians called a digital euro, which is envisaged as being operational by 2029, "not a nice-to-have, (but) it is an essential safeguard of European sovereignty, stability, and resilience".
After a backlash over the obscene digital manipulation feature last week, the response from Musk's xAI, which operates Grok and X, was initially to simply insist that "legacy media lies".
China will step up efforts to boost domestic demand through targeted consumption stimulus, expand service-sector spending, and push ahead with retail and distribution reforms in 2026, said the country's top commerce official.
China's consumer inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in nearly three years in December, official data showed on Friday, signaling a stabilizing economy as recent stimulus measures continued to bolster domestic demand.
China's Ministry of Commerce will further boost consumption and expand opening-up as part of its key work for 2026, according to a two-day national commerce work conference that ended Sunday.
China will advance the opening-up of its services sector in nine additional pilot cities, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Commerce on Friday.
Nevada Lieutenant Governor Stavros Anthony said the western US state is keen to deepen cooperation with China as it seeks to diversify its economy by attracting Chinese technology companies.
China's consumer inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in nearly three years in December, while the decline in factory-gate prices narrowed, official data showed on Friday.
The Chinese navy hospital ship "Silk Road Ark" arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, beginning a seven-day goodwill visit to Brazil that includes a series of medical exchange activities.
Shanghai rolled out new exit-entry service measures to further enhance the city's global accessibility by improving policies and services, local authorities said on Thursday.
The United States' announcement of withdrawal from 66 international organizations and treaties is unprecedented in its scope, posing a significant challenge to the current international order and multilateralism, experts said.
Experts argue that any disruptions would primarily accelerate two existing trends: the rapid development of China's local photoresist sector and a pivot to alternative foreign suppliers.
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 0.8 percent year-on-year in December, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday. More content to follow. Please refresh the page later.
Amid the combined effects of sustained policy support, a mild economic recovery, ample liquidity, and a relatively favorable external environment, the "slow bull" market that began in 2025 is expected to continue into 2026, analysts said.
Representatives of the Global Mayors Dialogue · Harbin carve an ice block on Tuesday at the Ice and Snow World in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.Representatives of the Global Mayors Dialogue · Harbin visit the Ice and Snow World on Tuesday in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The number of foreign nationals entering China increased 27% year on year in the first year following the implementation of the 240-hour visa-free transit policy, a public security official said Thursday.
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