Chinese designs and fashions were considered as corny and out of date, but now, it seems they have caught up with their South Korean neighbors.
Bob Grubba, head of a leading US import firm in the model train industry, is worried about Washington's threat to slap more tariffs on remaining Chinese imports, saying that it would result in family bread-winners in the industry losing their jobs.
There was a time when most Chinese travelers' interests in overseas destinations were restricted to a few countries like Japan, South Korea, the US and several European developed countries.
A demonstration area under construction in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, is offering better prospects for cooperation between China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
On a baking hot summer morning at the depot of Vietnam's first urban railway in its capital, Hanoi, young Vietnamese drivers took turns getting on and off a green and silver electric train to check whether it had been docked safely with another train on the same track.
Southwest China's Guizhou Province is best known as the home of world-renowned Chinese brands like liquor producer Kweichow Moutai and chili sauce maker Lao Gan Ma.But the province has undergone a high-tech makeover in recent years as it has built up its big data industry.
Ludishao, a remote village in Southwest China's Guizhou Province, has become an unlikely leader in high-tech credit reporting.
A growing number of foreign fast fashion brands that used to fill the wardrobes of young Chinese have been going out of style.
A growing number of Chinese companies are going public in the US amid strong growth momentum powered by great entrepreneurial vision and China's macro environment, financial market insiders believe.
A close encounter with Elon Musk, the well-known US technology entrepreneur, came in October 2015, two months after Shu Chang's rocket start-up was founded. Shu and his team were inspired to continue pursuing their commercial space dream by the event at Tsinghua University featuring the SpaceX CEO.
As China's previous generation of migrant workers approaches retirement age, a new and younger generation aspires to move beyond the traditional factory or construction floor to more ambitious careers.
Humanitarian threats such as armed conflict, other violence and tensions, natural disasters and uneven socioeconomic development are not uncommon in some countries and regions along the Belt and Road. As the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which kicked off in Beijing on Thursday, runs to Saturday, Global Times (GT)reporter Xie Wenting interviewed Pierre Dorbes (Dorbes), head of the Regional Delegation for East Asia of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to discuss how China-initiated BRI could play an active role to address humanitarian threats.
“The golden era for bitcoin mining has ended,” Zhao, a 40-something bitcoin mine owner, said with a sigh that accentuated his concerns about the gloomy prospects of this once booming industry.
Days before the tea leaves were ready to be plucked, Liu Guoying, a tea master in the city of Wuyishan in East China's Fujian Province, is hard at work giving training sessions to teach farmers techniques for plucking and processing tea.
If he could travel back in time, Yuan Shichao would go back to 2011 to thank himself for his “crazy” decision.
While performance and video game livestreaming have lost momentum, e-commerce livestreaming is in the limelight at present.
After a temporary chill in the Chinese mainland cruise market with the exit of several cruise lines, it seems that the industry is ready to set sail again as overseas cruise companies increase investment with larger ships and longer itineraries.
Horse fanciers, jockeys and sports fans in China have reason to rejoice thanks to a partnership between Guangdong Province and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to develop the region's equine industry.