From food, household appliances to vehicles, a majority of Chinese consumers believe that many Western brands could be replaced by Chinese ones, a Global Times survey showed, reflecting the rising confidence in national brands, industry analysts said.

As global automakers – including those in China – grapple with a chip supply shortage that began in the fourth quarter of last year, Chinese auto experts are urging the industry to turn the crisis into an opportunity and set ...

Electric vehicle maker Nio saw its 100,000th car roll off the assembly line on Wednesday, a milestone for the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) start-up since its first vehicle was manufactured nearly three years ago.

Production of Electric Vehicles (EVs), which are already popular in China and growing steadily in the US and Europe, has just ushered in a new player, the Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi. The move is not surprising at the moment as ...

Some Chinese rare-earth companies and their downstream firms are finding that their raw materials could not be shipped smoothly from Myanmar, a key supplier of medium and heavy rare earths for China, amid political upheaval in the Southeast Asian nation, ...

A total of 985 breeding pigs from the US arrived in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province in a chartered plane, providing a source for China's domestic stock breeding.

China's industrial production continued to gain momentum during the start of 2021, with strong performances in the high-tech and equipment manufacturing sectors, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday.

Amid US government pressure, Facebook has given up a project to lay more than 8,000 miles of fiber cable along the seabed to connect California with Hong Kong, leaving no winner for either the US or China, according to an ...

US President Joe Biden is scheduled to join the first-ever virtual meeting of leaders from Japan, India and Australia on Friday as the country's latest attempt to wield influence in the Indo-Pacific region to contain China.

Lured by favorable policies, an improving business environment and a push for innovation, more businessmen from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) are seeking opportunities in the Chinese mainland while expressing the hope that their hometown could regain steady ...

More Chinese companies are beefing up efforts in the design and production of vehicle chips amid increased awareness of the need to build an independent supply chain for core components as carmakers reel from the global chip shortage.

Different traditional vehicles powered by internal combustion engine, new-energy vehicles (NEVs) have provided a fresh opportunity for Chinese auto brands, which have found it quite hard to make a solid footprint in developed markets for years. In the fast-growing NEV ...

Most Australia-China education businesses reported a fall in business confidence and deteriorating attitudes toward Australian education in China during the past year amid fraught bilateral ties and the COVID-19 pandemic, and most Australian businesses reflected difficulty in diversifying their markets, ...

The A-share stock market in the Chinese mainland raised record high funding for IPOs in 2020 despite the impact of the coronavirus, official data showed. The trend, however, is not likely to continue this year, given the uncertainty arising from ...

Strict inspections of vehicle fleets, flight bans on drones and "low, slow and small" aircraft heightened security checks for packages… Beijing is in full swing for China's most important annual political events as the two sessions period begins next week.

China's central government unveiled the "No. 1 document" for 2021 on Sunday evening, renewing its emphasis on the country's rural area and agricultural sector, while also bringing in more urgent issues such as tackling core bottlenecks in agricultural technologies, strengthening ...

The Chinese mainland A-share market faltered at the close on Thursday, the first trading day in the Year of the Ox, after a strong rally in the morning. The market's moves were within expectations and the equities are likely to ...

Real-time data from ticket platform Dengta, shows China's box office revenues in 2021 reached 10 billion yuan ($1.55billion) as of Tuesday morning, the day before the end of the Spring Festival movie season.

Surviving from the crackdown lead by Trump administration, Chinese video-sharing app TikTok, although still facing uncertainty about its destiny in the US, seemed prepared to take the next move: making foray into the e-commerce sector in the US based on ...

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) producers may discover new opportunities for cooperation and expansion in the US market as the Biden administration aims to promote EVs as a means to achieve its ambitious climate goals.

The newly released revised industry catalog that puts more sectors into the category of encouraged foreign investment took effect on Wednesday, showing that China is determined to open the door for more foreign investment to spur its economic growth.

Cuddling with several friends on home's sofa, watching the annual Spring Festival Gala on CCTV (China's major broadcaster) while furiously trying to snatch a share of the massive digital red packet giveaway run by Chinese internet giants is a common ...

Newly released trade and GDP data for 2020 shows the stellar performance of China's economy despite the COVID-19 outbreak. The world's second-largest economy also attracted the largest amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) last year.

South China's Guangdong Province, a major manufacturing hub in the nation, achieved 2020 GDP growth of 2.3 percent year-on-year against the headwinds that the export-oriented economy faced amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the province's governor said.

If China's economic growth by 2.3 percent last year in spite of the headwinds of COVID-19 can be considered a silver lining to virus-dragged global economy, then the country's central city of Wuhan, the first city that experienced an unprecedented ...

Douyin, the popular short-video sharing platform owned by Chinese start-up ByteDance, launched its in-app payment tool Douyin Pay on Tuesday, a move that aligns with the app's strategic move toward the e-commerce sector while playing a defensive role in the ...

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the US, which is being held online for the first time this year due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, has seen Chinese high-tech companies scale down their presence by more than 80 percent ...

After rebounding from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic at a speed beating most carmakers' original expectations, China's auto industry now faces a new dilemma – tightening supplies of semiconductors, which serve a key role as a vehicle's brain from ...

Most entrepreneurs and high-level executives from China, Japan and South Korea are optimistic about China's economic growth this year, according to a survey by the Global Times Research Center, Maeil Business Newspaper and Nikkei.

On the cusp of an explosion of new energy development in China and globally to replace carbon emissions from fossil fuel, new energy vehicles are increasingly becoming market-oriented to meet consumer needs, and at the same time, competition among major ...

The sluggishly growing smartphone industry, both domestically and globally, was expected to bottom out in 2021, however, with the market further rocked by the spread of a global pandemic.

The ripple effect of Tesla's surprising price reduction for the Chinese-made Model Y cars has continued, with market attention focused on the future competitive landscape created by the foreign player that has stirred up the new-energy vehicle (NEV) market in ...

Video streaming for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, where Daryl Morey now serves as president of basketball operations, and the Houston Rockets, Morey's former employer, has been made unavailable on Tencent Sports, which streams NBA games in China.

Alibaba Group said on Sunday that its board has authorized an increase in the company's share repurchase program to $10 billion, up from $6 billion. The move shows that the company's cash flow is adequate and the e-commerce giant believes ...

China approved the country's leading vaccine producer Sinopharm's application for market rollout of its COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, which marks China's first approval for a vaccine to combat the coronavirus.

As the world holds high hopes for a vaccine to emerge amid the pandemic, global biological and drug firms are racing on research and development (R&D) efforts and rolling out their products as early as possible, and the participation of ...

As more inspiring clinical trial results of COVID-19 vaccines have been released recently, the world has high hopes for the advent of the key product, and achieving fair access to vaccines on a global scale is also imminent.

From the small but functional Wuling Hongguang MINI electric vehicle (EV) priced at less than 30,000-yuan ($4,578) to the high-end Model 3 sedan by US tech giant Tesla priced at under 300,000-yuan, green vehicles have become a growing trend in ...

The Chinese internet sector, following a decade of boom times in a relaxed environment for regulatory scrutiny, is facing a new task: how to guarantee growth based on innovation amid heightened regulation, which has become increasingly necessary to avert systemic ...

As the sequel to the Double 11 online shopping carnival, sales volume during the Double 12 shopping festival, which wrapped up Saturday, appears to have again placed a distant second, perhaps even third as it came and went without much ...

A new rocket launch site will be built in China, in line with increasing demand in the nation's burgeoning commercial space sector.

More Chinese venture capital (VC) firms and technology companies are shifting focus from the once-valuable Indian market, where uncertainty is rising, to emerging markets in Southeast Asia.

Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, the world's No.1 production base for laptops, is expected to see limited damage to its memory chip supply chain after a COVID-19 case caused a plant owned by South Korea's semiconductor giant SK Hynix to temporarily ...

Gradually emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, China's economy has demonstrated its resilience and stability this year. With a further recovery expected, GDP growth will exceed 8 percent next year, according to macroeconomists and industry reports.

India banned 43 more smartphone apps on Tuesday including some related with Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group, even after it recently eased foreign direct investment (FDI) policies.

Chinese experts and business representatives welcomed the positive signs from the Indian side after some Indian authorities are reportedly considering a plan to lift sanctions on foreign direct investment (FDI) from countries including China against the backdrop of the lowest ...

China is willing to provide the necessary convenience for a Brazilian delegation to inspect the research and development of China's COVID-19 vaccines, in accordance with relevant laws and international practices, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday, as Brazil plans to ...

The US Commerce Department said Thursday that it would abide by a Pennsylvania court order not to shut down Chinese video-sharing app TikTok, initially slated to take effect on Thursday.

TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance filed a new petition to US court on Tuesday (US time) as a defensive move against US President Donald Trump's second executive order targeted at the video-sharing app, which is set to take effect ...

Major Chinese tech giants hold a "wait-and-see" attitude toward a likely Joe Biden presidency in the US as some have been facing a yearlong crackdown amid the US-initiated tech war against China while shares of major Chinese tech firms jumped ...

Standing alone in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China, a small, black rocket, developed by a private Chinese aerospace firm, awaited its debut. The engineering team behind the rocket, who have worked around the clock for the past few months, ...

Determinedly charging along the path of consumption-driven development, China kicked off its third international import event on Wednesday. With the pandemic-induced battering of domestic consumption ebbing, the opening of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) is set to inject more ...

China, leading the world in 5G rollout and user base, is still looking for the silver bullet that will allow the new wireless technology to live up to consumer expectations, Chinese telecom analysts said on Sunday — marking the first ...

Having gradually emerged from the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, the Chinese economy will show the world its robust resilience and vast capacity through the upcoming world's largest online shopping festival - Double 11, or Singles' Day, which falls ...

The executive order issued by the Trump administration to ban Chinese video-sharing app TikTok encountered another setback following a US federal judge's ruling blocking the administration from outlawing TikTok's US operation, which was set to take effect on November 12.

The first commercially grown US rice has been unloaded at China's ports despite disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the fraying of China-US ties, signifying the determination of Beijing to implement the phase one trade deal and ...

The Trump administration's appeal against a previous WTO ruling on China tariffs has no significance due to the fact that the Appellate Body has already become dysfunctional thanks to the US' previous efforts to hobble it, experts told the Global ...

As the world is paying close attention to how China, the world's second-largest economy, will shape its development plan for the next five years, technological innovation is in the spotlight, as it is a key driver of the “dual ...

Emerging from the COVID-19 disruptions, the Chinese furniture industry is picking up momentum as more export orders arrive, helping the sector become one of the fastest industries to recover from the epidemic-related slowdown in the first half of the year.

As they emerge from disruptions caused by COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese players in the commercial space sector - both state-owned and private - are accelerating their investment in research and development (R&D), as well as the production of rockets and satellites, ...

China announced an action plan for comprehensive pilot reforms for Shenzhen city, South China's Guangdong Province, on Sunday, following the release days earlier of a five-year program for its next-stage reform and opening-up.

With the COVID-19 pandemic effectively under control in China, more textile orders originally placed by multinationals in India have shifted to China in recent months, which is a normal market reaction, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday.

Chinese technology giant Huawei said it will continue to invest in Canada betting on the country's broad development prospects, even though the company's CFO remains detained in the country.

Qingdao, a coastal city in East China's Shandong Province, has become the latest coronavirus battleground in China. As the country's prevention measures against the pandemic have become routine for many months, the outbreak will have very limited impact on local ...

Innosilicon, a Chinese company focusing on one-stop intellectual property (IP) and customized chip design, announced on Monday that it has completed the world's first chip tape-out and test based on the FinFET N+1 advanced technology of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp ...

Chinese firms under siege from the Trump administration's groundless bullying have found a remedy in the US judicial system, analysts and lawyers said on Friday.

Nearly half of China was on the move during the recent eight-day "Golden Week."

China's economic growth is highly likely to rise to more than 5 percent in the July-September quarter, thanks to the nation's picking-up-steam across the three driving economic forces - investment, trade and consumption, according to the estimates of economists.

Sina Corp, the owner of China's twitter-like social media platform Weibo and one of China's web portal pioneers, announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to go private and delist from NASDAQ — where it was ...

The US government's relentless and groundless restrictions on China's high-tech sector, an attempt to thwart the latter's rapid growth, will not succeed and the US will pay the costs for such bullying behavior, Chinese experts said on Tuesday.

Following the wake-up call from Huawei's chip supply crisis, Chinese vehicle sector is rushing to foster domestic technologies and achieve greater self-reliance.

ByteDance, the Beijing-based start-up behind popular video-sharing platform TikTok, confirmed to the Global Times on Sunday that it's possible more investors will be introduced to the pre-IPO deal in addition to Oracle and Walmart, as no specific agreement has been ...

Chinese tech firm ByteDance, the parent company of video-sharing platform TikTok, struck a defiant tone on Thursday, saying publicly for the first time that the proposed deal would not involve the sale of operations and technology, and would require regulatory ...

The partnership between Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok and US technology firm Oracle could be a win-win deal that would address the Trump administration's concerns on data security while setting a template for Chinese companies going global, analysts told the Global ...

China has extended tariff exclusions for some US imports, which are subject to Beijing's counter measures against US Section 301 action, by an additional year from Wednesday, the original date, until September 16, 2021.

TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance has chosen Oracle Corp as a US partner for its video-sharing app ahead of a deadline banning the app that draws near, a move analysts said represents hard-fought efforts by the Chinese firm amid a lack ...

US semiconductor maker Nvidia said it will acquire UK-based computer chip designer Arm Holdings from SoftBank Group in a transaction worth $40 billion, a deal that could put the Chinese semiconductor industry at the risk of US control, Chinese analysts ...

As the deadline set by the Trump executive order threatening closure of Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok draws close, it is likely that TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance would choose partnership or partial sale to a US firm instead of a wrapped-up ...

Senior Chinese and EU officials held their first high-level dialogue on digital cooperation and had what both sides described as "constructive" discussions on cooperation in digital technology, information and communication technology standards, artificial intelligence (AI) and other topics.

Despite the blatant squeeze by the Trump administration of Chinese technology company TikTok, the company sees growing prospects in Southeast Asia.

Beyond Meat, one of the US' largest producers of meat substitutes, announced on Tuesday that it will set up production facilities for plant-based meat in China, a move that analysts said reflects the difficulty of business decoupling between China and ...

Amid industry zeal for technology advances in China's semiconductor sector, it is time to call for rational investment and top-down design by the government to avoid “expensive” failures, analysts told the Global Times on Monday.

Commsat, a Chinese commercial space start-up, announced Tuesday that it has started to build a satellite factory in China with annual production of more than 100 satellites, which will weigh around 100 kilograms each.

Huawei's high-end smartphones equipped with its self-developed Kirin chipset have seen price hikes in non-franchised stores, a source familiar with the matter told the Global Times on Monday.

Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi said Wednesday it remains confident in the key Indian market, although recent calls to “boycott China” due to bilateral tensions have clouded the prospects of Chinese firms there.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday respectively sent congratulatory letters to the opening of the Year of Scientific and Technological Innovation between the two countries, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

As a latecomer to the electric vehicle (EV) market, Europe has witnessed surging sales of green vehicles in the past few months, presenting a challenge to market-leader China. Despite this development, the overtake should not be exaggerated in the marathon-like ...

Despite some Indians calling for boycotting Chinese products, Chinese businesses investing there are mostly positive, pinning hope on its growing market.

A slew of July economic data showed a steady recovery for the world's second largest economy, which points to an annual expansion despite a global economic recession amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A positive atmosphere has emerged ahead of an upcoming online meeting between Chinese and US trade representatives. Both sides have expressed their anticipation and understanding in the run up to the dialogue despite months-long tit-for-tat relations, and it is widely ...

The battlefield of a global vaccine race has seemingly transferred from research and development to the market after Russia announced its approval of the world's first COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, soon after which the US announced to purchase another 100 ...

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers are rushing to go public in the US, taking advantage of rising investor interest - which has gotten a boost from US EV giant Tesla - and these Chinese start-ups are expected to compete more ...

US President Donald Trump's bullying of Chinese company Tencent might end up striking a much heavier blow to Apple with the potential loss of the vast majority of its Chinese users, who help to generate up to 20 percent of ...

Chinese-developed video-sharing platform TikTok confirmed with the Global Times Thursday that it will establish a new European data center in Ireland, its first in Europe, a move that analysts said displays the company's determination to strengthen data security and pursue ...

China's integrated circuit (IC) industry has seen steady growth in recent years and it will advance the country on the path of self-reliance based on booming domestic demand, industry analysts said Wednesday.

European countries have expressed no intention of banning TikTok, by following the US' crackdown on the Chinese video-sharing app, a move analysts said is in line with the interests of Europe to counter the long-time hegemony of the US.

Chinese short-video app TikTok is likely to be acquired by US tech giant Microsoft rather than being banned in the US, a move which might weaken the competitiveness of the phenomenal internet product, Chinese analysts said.

Imports from the US have made steady progress in recent months, yet joint efforts from firms on both sides are still needed for the phase one trade agreement to overcome the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, said a Chinese ...

The latest outbreak of coronavirus in Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has delayed the process of goods and personnel flow between the city and other regions, yet the epidemic's impact on Xinjiang's border trade is limited, ...

Chinese investors' confidence in India will be battered and hopes of an improvement in bilateral economic relations will dim if India moves to ban 275 Chinese apps following its previous block, analysts said Monday.

Supported by effective control measures, the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, has limited impact on economic reopening and is expected to be cleared within a month, experts told the Global Times Monday.

China's messaging app WeChat stopped providing services to some Indian users on Saturday, following an earlier ban of Chinese apps by the Indian government. Analysts believe it is a proactive move that more Chinese companies will take to be "more ...

Chinese automobile brands have progressed in both quality and design in the past years, despite reliance on foreign key components. With the rise of new-energy vehicles (NEVs) and intelligent connected cars, domestic automakers face rich opportunities to continue to rise ...

The past impressions of China's artificial intelligence (AI) developments as widely seen from industry expos and conferences over recent years - a human-like robot making a cappuccino or a robotic arm playing the piano - are ready to take the ...

The UK's move to ban Huawei may further sour strained China-UK political ties, largely reduce personnel exchanges, and most likely prompt Beijing to take reciprocal measures against London's discriminatory policy, Chinese observers said.

The UK's decision over Huawei, which could take the form of a ban on the Chinese equipment maker's involvement in the country's 5G construction, could add a heavy burden to its struggling economy amid the pandemic and further strain bilateral ...

A possible US crackdown on Chinese social media apps just showed the US' weakness, which is not in line with the values the country claims it holds, a Chinese official said on Monday.

Chinese app service providers hamstrung by India's ban could begin closing their offices and shedding local jobs in the country in a month's time, an industry insider told the Global Times Thursday.

BlueCity Holdings, owner of China's biggest dating app for gay men, rang the NASDAQ Stock Market opening bell in celebration of its IPO, becoming the latest Chinese social media firm to tap the international capital markets.

Chinese public cloud service providers represented by bellwether Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud have witnessed quick growth in their cloud services triggered by surging demand for remote education and working due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and their competitiveness in global ...

As Chinese-funded platform TikTok win a rising number of Internet users in many overseas markets, politicians from some countries are seeking every opportunity to pick fault with the app, citing their data security to set obstacles for its business expansion.

The zero-tariff fresh Australian beef is proving popular with consumers in South China's Hainan free trade zone, displaying China's determination to pursue opening-up policy. Yet the outlook for Australian beef exports to China is dimmer, due to an all-time low ...

The Chinese stock market has fully entered bull-market territory and the A-share market will see an upward trend amid some fluctuations in the second half of the year, analysts said on Friday.

Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest contract manufacturer of consumer electronics, confirmed with the Global Times on Friday that the customs clearance procedures for its products delayed at Indian ports have been resolved and will not affect supplies to the ...

Chinese new-energy vehicle (NEV) start-up Byton has confirmed with the Global Times that it will suspend operations from Wednesday for a strategic reorganization due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first batch of high-end ventilators came off the production line at GE Healthcare's Chinese facility on Monday, a milestone for the US firm's localization in the Chinese market, which will also accelerate the integration of the Chinese healthcare sector ...

China launched trading of low-sulfur fuel futures Monday at the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE), a step toward internationalization of the nation's futures market.

As Beijing has raised the COVID-19 emergency response level to II from III, high technology including big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing is in play to help screen for the virus and prevent further spread.

Border clashes between China and India in the Galwan Valley on Monday cast a shadow of uncertainty over the two regional economic powers, with Chinese investors showing concerns about doing business in India.

Italy, one of the European countries worst hit by the coronavirus, has gradually emerged from its national lockdown and is now shifting its attention toward resuming its export-oriented economy ravaged during the pandemic.

Bilateral business activities between China and Israel have been making progress despite the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting normal communications, and the two sides are looking forward to strengthening cooperation and business expansion in the post COVID-19 period.

The new-energy vehicle (NEV) market in China continued to rebound in May thanks to the nation's effective control of the coronavirus and steady release of auto consumption demand.

As the world economy faces a downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that could be even worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s, officials and experts in global think tanks are calling for joint international efforts to help the ...

Standing at the Qinghai-Tibet plateau at over 3,000 meters above sea level, a cloud computing data center developed by a private technology firm has recently been put into trial operation, driving local economic growth while aiming at business expansion in ...

As more German business travelers have returned to China by chartered flights, their business resumption is expected to enter a fast track, which is key to guaranteeing the stability of industrial chain cooperation between China and Germany, experts told the ...