China's second domestically built large cruise ship, the Adora Flora City, has entered equipment debugging and system functionality verification phase with the first of its five high-capacity power generators put into operation on Tuesday, according to China Media Group ...

China's first smart demonstration production line for rare-earth disc motors has started operation at the Rare Earth Advanced Materials Technology Innovation Center in Baotou, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, marking a significant technological milestone in the country's rare-earth application ...

The firing of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)'s top official by the US administration may risk negative impacts including the politicization of economic data, according to a research note from JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Technology giant Huawei on Tuesday announced the full open-source release of its Ascend AI hardware enablement framework, CANN, along with its Mind series of application enablement suites and development toolkits, according to a news release published on the company's website.

China's service sector expanded at a stronger pace at the start of the third quarter, with service sector activity gaining more momentum due to rising new business volume, which is supported by a fresh rise in foreign demand, according to ...

Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has achieved marked development over the past six decades, with regional GDP reaching 155 times that of 1965, Wang Junzheng, Party chief of Xizang, said on Tuesday.

China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Monday announced 34 targeted measures to prevent and mitigate disasters by region, crop type, and risk profile, aiming to ensure a bumper autumn grain harvest.

China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on Tuesday issued a safety advisory, warning that artificial intelligence (AI) training data varies widely in quality, which often contains false information, fabricated content, and biased views.

China's service trade maintained steady growth in the first half of this year, with total imports and exports reaching 3.89 trillion yuan (about 544.9 billion US dollars), up 8 percent year on year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.

The latest wave of tariffs imposed by Washington on dozens of countries is likely to remain in place, according to a US official on Sunday, a signal that experts say risks creating tremendous uncertainty for global investment and trade, with ...

China's county-level regions are emerging as new engines of consumption in the summer of 2025, platform data shows, fueled by the rise of personal incomes, targeted government policies, and vibrant spending activities ranging from e-commerce to grassroots sports events.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) has introduced significant reforms to its IPO pricing mechanism, which came into effect on Monday. The pricing mechanism of the new share market in Hong Kong has remained unchanged for more than 20 years, ...

Workers work on a clothing production line for export orders at a smart manufacturing facility in Wuhu, East China's Anhui Province on August 4, 2025. Photo: VCG

South China's Hainan Province unveiled a three-year action plan on Monday, aiming to establish a modern industrial system with distinctive features and competitive advantages by 2027. This initiative comes as the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) will officially launch island-wide ...

Amid Shanghai's stepped-up efforts to promote the trial operation of driverless taxis, Chinese companies that gained the first batch of smart connected vehicle demonstration operation licenses at the end of July have officially started putting the services into operation.

China's new-energy vehicle (NEV) market penetration rate hit a record 44.3 percent in the first half of 2025, a new historical high for the same period, the CCTV News reported on Monday, citing information from the China Machinery Industry Federation. ...

At a recent pop toy show in Beijing, after detailed consultation, Russian collector Ilya Popov enthusiastically shook hands with a Chinese toy designer to finalize a 15,000-yuan ($2,070) purchase.

Hong Kong is projected to become the world's largest wealth management center in the coming years, with the city's asset and wealth management market experiencing robust expansion last year, according to Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Chief Executive Eddie Yue ...

China's machinery industry maintained steady and positive performance in the first half of the year, reporting stable growth in production and sales, the China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF) said on Monday.

Enhancing industrial standards to promote high-quality economic development and boost equipment upgrades and trade-ins of consumer goods has been fruitful, which has unleashed consumption vitality, propelling high-quality development of manufacturing sector while improving industrial safety, China Media Group reported on ...

From high-speed smart car factories to healthy living in urban forests, Longquanyi is redefining the future with innovation and momentum.

By placing connect at the forefront of its APEC agenda, South Korea seems to recognize the urgent challenges that Asia-Pacific economies are facing. At the Digital & AI Ministerial Meeting of APEC, efforts should focus on enhancing AI connectivity.

Beijing on Saturday kicked off the world's first robot consumer themed festival, the E Town Robotics Consumer Festival, the Global Times learned from the event organizers on Sunday, a highly-watched event that experts and industry analysts view as a signal ...

Train G9813/2 departed Lushan Station in Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi Province on Saturday, as more than 1,000 supporters of Jiujiang Team boarded China's first fan-only railway express, specially designed for football fans of the 2025 Jiangxi Provincial Urban Football Super ...

The Middle Corridor of the China-Europe Railway Express has handled more than 20,000 trains in cumulative operations since its first train in 2013, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.

Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, recorded a milestone of 20,000 entry and exit China-Europe freight trains since its service launch in 2013, said the China Railway Hohhot Group Co., Ltd. on Sunday.

China's independently developed ton-level electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has successfully completed its first material transport flight to an offshore oil platform, China Media Group reported on Sunday. Check the graphic to see China's low-altitude economy development:

Recently, the first section of the water distribution ring pipe was installed in the machine pit at the Datang Zala Hydropower Station in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, marking a significant milestone for the world's largest single-unit capacity impulse turbine, ...

China's independently developed ton-level electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has successfully completed its first material transport flight to an offshore oil platform. This breakthrough not only innovates the maritime supply model but also marks a key step forward ...

More than 100 cutting-edge robotics products will make their debuts at the upcoming 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, nearly twice as many as last year, highlighting the conference's growing role as a global stage for innovation.

The 2025 World Robot Conference will be held from August 8 to 12 in Beijing's Yizhuang, with participation by robot companies and global experts and scholars reaching record highs, the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) announced at a press conference ...

?In recent years, the European Union (EU) has shown a strong tilt toward neo-protectionism in its trade and economic policies. It has frequently introduced new subsidy and countervailing tools and applied unconventional regulatory measures, many of which are discriminatory and ...

China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) on Saturday revealed a set of newly implemented compliance guidelines for online platform fees, aiming to further regulate how e-commerce platforms charge operators for commissions, service fees, memberships, and other costs such as ...

China's Ministry of Finance on Friday released six typical cases of accountability related to hidden local government debt, part of ongoing efforts to strengthen fiscal discipline and crack down on illegal borrowing. The cases involved a total of 141.01 billion ...

As marine tourism surges in popularity, China has reported that it saw an explosive cruise passenger throughput increase during the first half of 2025, official data showed on Friday.

The High Court of Hong Kong on Friday ruled that Zong Fuli – daughter of Zong Qinghou and chairwoman of Wahaha Group – is prohibited from withdrawing or transferring the funds from a $1.8 billion HSBC account, as part of ...

Given the external pressures and uncertainties facing China's economy this year, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau meeting on Wednesday emphasized the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability to realize major priorities such as ...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau meeting on Wednesday analyzed and studied the current economic situation and made arrangements for economic work in the second half of this year, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The Global Times held the 5th Promotion Event for Foreign Business Investment Attraction in Beijing on Thursday. Guided by the Central Urban Work Conference, the event - themed "Promoting Urban Industrial Innovation and Enhancing Local Economic Momentum" - sees participants ...

At a booth filled with the aroma of freshly brewed beans, Ethiopian coffee trader Simret Teferi Gebrezgi gestured to a sleek, humming grinder and matching porcelain cups that are made in China. “We grow the coffee,” she told Global Times ...

Asia's biggest games event ChinaJoy, also known as the China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference, kicked off in Shanghai on Friday, as multiple entertainment companies told the Global Times at the expo that having observed the China market's momentum, they ...

The People's Daily commentary department on Friday published on its social media accounts WeChat and Sina Weibo an article titled "Nvidia, how can I trust you?" along with a video footage, regarding the recent summon of the US tech firm ...

Leading Chinese food delivery platforms Meituan, Eleme, and JD.com all posted statements on Friday, vowing to curb disorderly competition and cease the price-based rivalry amid warnings from government departments and industry participants.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday reiterated that there are no winners in a tariff war or trade war and protectionism harms common interests of all nations.

In recent years, climate change has led to frequent extreme weather events globally. Meteorological disasters such as hail threaten the safety of solar plants and the stable income of customers across middle and low latitudes of the northern and southern ...

The fourth batch of ultra-long special treasury bond funds to support the country's consumer goods trade-in program - totaling 69 billion yuan ($9.58 billion) - will be allocated in October, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) ...

The White House's announcement of a 20 percent tariff on Taiwan region - higher than the 15 percent imposed on Japan and South Korea - has provoked intense debate in the island. Local media even ran headlines likening it to ...

Apple is bracing for a significant financial impact from tariffs in the September quarter, with CEO Tim Cook revealing on a financial results conference call with analysts on Thursday that the company anticipates around $1.1 billion in tariff-related costs. This ...

A State Council executive meeting on Thursday called for consolidating and boosting the momentum of economic recovery in the second half of the year.

In the ninth article of the “Readers' Reflections” column, Global Times talked to Maurício Santoro (Santoro), a professor of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and a researcher at the Brazilian Navy's Center for Political and ...

In light of the increasingly uncertain external market, the imperative to foster intra-regional markets, particularly through the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, ASEAN Plus Three countries, and RCEP frameworks, has become more pressing than ever.

In 2024, the added value of China's "three new" economy - encompassing new industries, new business formats, and new business models - expanded by 6.7 percent year-on-year, calculated at current prices. This growth rate surpassed the overall GDP increase at ...

The number of departure tax refund stores in China has exceeded 7,200, up 80 percent from the end of 2024, a spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Thursday.

Patriotism-themed tourism, also known as "red tourism," has gained momentum during this year's summer vacation as students and young people pay tribute to national heroes across China.

As the 22nd China Digital Entertainment Industry Congress kicked off in Shanghai on Thursday, industry representatives told the Global Times that they are stepping up efforts to expand into overseas markets, while expressing strong confidence in the continued growth and ...

The attractiveness and inclusiveness of domestic capital markets should be further enhanced, according to the meeting held on Wednesday by the Communist Party of China Central Committee Political Bureau, which analyzed and studied the current economic situation and made arrangements ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday local time unleashed a flurry of tariff-related moves, including revisions to previously proposed duties on copper imports and products from Brazil and South Korea, as well as the termination of a tariff exemption for ...

A China-Europe freight train loaded with electronics, mechanical and electrical equipment, and daily necessities departed from the Horgos railway port in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on July 27, bound for Duisburg, Germany.

When asked about the reactions from business communities of China and the US toward the recent bilateral economic and trade talks held in Sweden, Wang Linjie, a spokesperson for the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), said ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today announced an updated forecast for global growth. The Fund projects growth rates of 3.0% for 2025 and 3.1% for 2026. This new forecast for 2025 is an increase of 0.2 percentage points compared to ...

In response to a question regarding CK Hutchison Holdings' announcement of the plan to invite a major strategic investor from the Chinese mainland to join a consortium in the transaction of its ports business and whether the Chinese side would ...

In response to a media inquiry regarding US President Trump's executive order suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value shipments, which will affect many packages from China, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Thursday that China has taken notice ...

In response to questions on recent China-US trade talks in Sweden, Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) spokesperson He Yadong said on Thursday that the two sides held candid, in-depth, and constructive discussions in Stockholm from July 28 to 29 on trade ...

Highlights of China's information technology development in 2024 include: - A total of 302 generative AI services have completed registration, with the total number of registered users exceeding 600 million by the end of 2024. -In 2024, China's digital industry achieved a ...

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has urged the EU to show restraint when using restrictive trade tools, and foster a fair, just and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies.

To support the innovative development of drugs and medical devices, China's National Healthcare Security Administration has established a pricing mechanism for the launch of new drugs and added over 100 price items related to new medical care technologies, including brain-computer ...

US President Donald Trump issued a blitz of tariff announcements ranging from changes to previously threatened levies on imports of copper, goods from Brazil and South Korea, to ending an exemption from tariffs for small-value shipments from overseas, Reuters reported ...

Asked to comment on China's announcement on Thursday that it had summoned US company NVIDlA over serious security issues related to its H20 chips, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that inquiries about the specific issue should refer to relevant ...

The US administration's decision to impose a universal 50 percent tariff on imported semi-finished copper products and copper-intensive derivatives has triggered chaotic disruptions in global copper markets, another example of how the uncertainty of US trade policies is destabilizing global ...

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), in accordance with relevant laws, summoned Nvidia on Thursday, requiring the company to provide an explanation and submit relevant proof materials to address security risks related to vulnerabilities and backdoors in its H20 computing ...

China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) in July came in at 49.3, down 0.4 points from a month earlier. Factors such as the traditional off-season for manufacturing, high temperatures, heavy rain and flooding in some regions, lead to the decline ...

The added value of new industries, new business formats and new business models, dubbed the “three new” economy, contributed more to China's economic growth last year, official data shows on Thursday.

The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector stood at 49.3 in July, down 0.4 percentage points from the previous month, official data showed Thursday.

?Starting Friday, any single or cumulative daily cash transaction for purchasing precious metals and gemstones, including gold and diamonds, valued at 100,000 yuan ($13,934) or more, or the equivalent in foreign currency, should be reported to the China Anti-Money Laundering ...

As sweltering heat waves sweep across China, a recent tourist trend has emerged after dark. In ancient towns and even mountain parks, travelers are escaping the heat and heading out after sunset, boosting "nighttime tourism."

Global investors are demonstrating remarkable confidence in Chinese assets, with five major overseas China equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) collectively attracting $2.7 billion in net inflows in July, according to market data tracker FUTU.

The fourth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will be held in Beijing in October, according to a decision made at a CPC Central Committee Political Bureau meeting on Wednesday, the Xinhua News Agency ...

China has always maintained continuity and stability in its policy toward the US, regardless of how the situation evolves, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday, when meeting with a delegation led by Rajesh Subramaniam, board chair of the ...

Europe is setting its sights on gigawatt factories in a bid to bolster its artificial intelligence (AI) industry and meet the challenges of a rapidly changing sector, CNBC reported on Tuesday. Buzz around the concept of factories that "industrialize manufacturing ...

While US withdrawal raises questions about the future of international climate cooperation, it is crucial to recognize that as the urgency of climate change will not diminish, the multilateral efforts to combat climate change will persist.

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Wednesday, stressing the need to expand high-level opening-up and stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade and foreign investment, according to the Xinhua News Agency. ...

Hong Kong is forging ahead with resilience and innovation amid global uncertainty, with its core competitiveness intact and new strengths emerging, according to a business environment report released by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Wednesday.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau held a meeting on Wednesday. The meeting decided that the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee will be held in Beijing in October. The session will study ...

The US should work with China to continue to enhance consensus, reduce misunderstandings, strengthen cooperation, further deepen dialogue and consultations, and strive for more win-win outcomes, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Stockholm on Tuesday, the Xinhua News Agency ...

The US and the EU have reached a trade deal after high-stakes meetings, but the deal — announced after talks in Scotland between US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen — has triggered a wave ...

China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with a delegation led by Rajesh Subramaniam, board chair of the US-China Business Council (USCBC), in Beijing on Wednesday, during which he urged the US to work in the same direction with China ...

A White House advisor claimed the Trump administration approved Nvidia's H20 chip exports to China to prevent Beijing from gaining an edge in the race to make the best chips, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The advisor also admitted that "if ...

Asked to comment on US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's reported claim that he warned Chinese officials on Tuesday that continued purchases of Russian oil would lead to higher tariffs, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Wednesday that China ...

The fifth China-Mongolia Expo is scheduled to be held in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from August 25 to 29. Expected to attract up to 6,000 domestic and international guests and businesses, the expo is becoming an important ...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has held a symposium with non-CPC personages to seek opinions and suggestions on the country's current economic situation and economic work for the second half of the year.

The Spanish Interior Ministry on Tuesday (local time) reiterated that the government's contract with Huawei to purchase certain storage equipment poses no security risk, and that the public tender was awarded independently, according to an Euractiv report. A Chinese expert ...

In response to media inquiry on that Financial Times recently reported that Japanese government officials have told Japanese companies in Taiwan that if a conflict in the Taiwan-Straits requires the evacuation of employees, they will be "on their own," and ...

The 2025 annual conference on studying, practicing and elucidating Xi Jinping's economic thought was held in Beijing on Tuesday. The conference, hosted by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), aims to diligently study and implement Xi Jinping's economic thought ...

When asked to comment on Taiwan people's concerns on local beef, poultry, pork and automotive industries if DPP authorities make concessions to the US in tariff talks amid the rise of new Taiwan dollar, Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the ...

A survey of 80,000 cultural and related enterprises above the designated size in China showed that the cultural enterprises achieved operating revenues of 7.13 trillion yuan ($993 billion) in the first half of 2025, marking a year-on-year increase of 7.4 ...

When asked about comments on a recent report from Taiwan's “National Science and Technology Council” think tank saying that the Chinese mainland is expected to surpass Taiwan in market share for mature process chips within two years, and dominating the ...

China has implemented unilateral visa exemptions or mutual visa-free policies with 75 countries during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), Wang Zhizhong, head of National Immigration Administration (NIA) said at a press conference on Wednesday.

A total of 130 Chinese companies are listed in this year's Fortune Global 500, with the automotive, high-tech, and internet companies showing strong growing momentum, according to the latest list released on Tuesday.

What began as a casual download has turned into a daily highlight for many international fans of Chinese micro dramas.

Chinese Minister of Finance Lan Fo'an pledged on Wednesday to accelerate the implementation of childcare subsidy policy, including gradually rolling out free pre-school education, and providing nursing subsidies for disabled elderly in the country.