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China rolled out a plan on Tuesday for establishing its southern island province of Hainan as a pilot free trade zone (FTZ).
The number of freight trains on the China-Europe rail service network, a crucial part of the Belt and Road initiative, has now reached 11,000 trips, said Ning Jizhe, vice-chairman of the National Development Reform Commission
Volkswagen Group China registered strong sales in the Chinese market in the first nine months of the year, the company announced Monday.Sales of Audis posted record-high growth of 15.4 percent to reach 483,000 units, and sales of Porsches topped 56,300 units in the same period.
US electric car maker Tesla has officially opened its newly set-up charging station in Hong Kong, which is the largest of its kind in Asia, according to South China Morning Post report on Monday.
The U.S. budget deficit rose to 779 billion U.S. dollars in the fiscal year 2018 ending Sept. 30, the highest since 2012, according to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died of cancer Monday afternoon at age 65, his family said.Allen was one of the world's richest people, and ranked 44th on Forbes' 2018 list of billionaires with an estimated net worth of more than 20 billion U.S. dollars as of Monday.
China on Tuesday rolled out a plan for building its southern island province of Hainan into a pilot free trade zone (FTZ).
Huawei announced its full-stack AI strategy on Wednesday which includes delivering abundant and affordable computing power, providing an accessible AI platform, and developing an open ecosystem.
The number of China's digital workshops/smart factories have so far reached more than 200 and the domestic intelligent manufacturing market is likely to exceed 220 billion yuan ($31.8 billion) by 2020.
Chinese smartphone brands are the biggest winners in India's October holiday sale, beating foreign rivals and lifting the world's second-largest smartphone market to record sales.
China's stock markets fell on Monday as external uncertainties weakened investor sentiment, but experts predicted preferential policies will soon roll out to stabilize the market.
China is transforming from the "world factory" to a new smart manufacturing powerhouse, as the nation's smart manufacturing market is expected to exceed 220 billion yuan ($32 billion) by 2020, according to a new report.
Yang Huiyan, vice-chairwoman of Country Garden, ranked first on the list of richest Chinese women for the sixth consecutive year, according to Hurun Richest Woman in China 2018 released on Tuesday.
Microsoft Corp unveiled its most powerful Surface personal computing product series in China on Monday with a tailor-made new color option for local customers, as the U.S. tech giant seeks to increase its popularity among female users.
Beijing has been ranked as China's most popular place for major companies across the globe to boost open innovation, which is a model aimed at promoting integrated efforts in innovation, as a way to spark new ideas.
The United States sees uneven geographic distribution during its post-crisis recovery, a report released by Economic Innovation Group (EIG) showed on Monday."Comfortable", "mid-tier", and "at risk" zip code areas added 150,500 together, while "distressed" zip code areas lost 13,300 businesses during the same period.
A high tech-themed restaurant, which uses robots to deliver and collect dishes, is undergoing trial operations in the central square of the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai.
China's first domestically built regional jet, the ARJ21, got its second customer on Monday, marking further commercialization and industrialization of the nation's aircraft sector.
China's producer price index, which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, rose 3.6 percent year on year in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday.
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.5 percent year on year in September, compared with 2.3 percent for August, the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday.
U.S. aircraft giant Boeing Company said Monday that it delivered the first 737 MAX airplane, leased from the U.S.Ihssane Mounir, senior vice president of Commercial Sales and Marketing at Boeing, said the 737 MAX will be seamlessly integrated in the S7 Airlines' strategy of delivering exceptional performance and value.
Hainan Province will strive to increase the annual tax-free shopping quota for travelers through efforts like opening more duty-free shops, a policy that an expert said will boost consumption in the local market and help the province become a global tourism and shopping center.
Sportswear giant Nike Inc's newly opened first global flagship store in Shanghai aims to attract digital-savvy younger Chinese consumers with its digital integration, innovations and personalized services.
China's largest trade fair opened Monday in Guangzhou, capital of southern China's Guangdong Province, attracting more import-oriented companies.
China becomes the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first half of 2018, attracting an estimated 70 billion U.S. dollars in inflows, according to the latest investment trends monitor published on Monday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Online food delivery platform Baidu Waimai has been rebranded as Star.Ele.me, which will operate as a sub-brand of Ele.me offering premium food and local services from selected vendors, after being acquired by its major rival over a year ago.
China and the Netherlands called for global efforts to support and promote free trade and safeguard multilateralism to handle the rising challenges confronting the world.
U.S. stocks opened lower on Monday as the market was trying to recover from last week's great loss.
The level of Beijing's mass entrepreneurship and innovation has been on the rise over recent years, according to a report released by the municipal bureau of statistics. The comprehensive index of entrepreneurship and innovation, a gauge used by the bureau, was at 111.4 in 2017, up 11.4 points year on year.
These developers' sales hit 3.5 trillion yuan in the first nine months of 2018, up 38.7 percent from the previous year."The sales of China's major property developers in 2018 will break historical records, but the sales growth has slowed down significantly compared to the previous year," said Zhang Dawei, chief analyst with Centaline Property.
