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, ...

Major safety concerns raised by China's civil aviation regulator over US plane maker Boeing's 737 MAX have not been fully addressed, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said on Monday, when asked about the timetable for ...

There are some voices in the media questioning whether Chinese lending to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has dried up, citing heavy debts and that South Africa needs free trade deal not BRI.

North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will eliminate virtual currency mining by the end of April, according to local market regulator's latest draft policy.

Dong Mingzhu, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) and chairwoman of Chinese home appliance giant Gree Electric Appliances, suggests that responsible government departments should publish China's own national standards and establish a green channel of national standards for ...

Australia's foreign direct investment (FDI) from China reached its lowest point in six years, as the total investment from China dropped to Aus$1 billion in 2020 from Aus$2.6 billion in 2019 – a more than 60 percent plunge year-on-year, media ...

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson urged the Australian government to seriously reflect on itself against the backdrop of a plunge of Chinese investment in Australia last year when China's outward foreign direct investment grew by 3.3 percent.

A global microchip shortage is plaguing the entire cell phone manufacturing, as well as hitting personal computer making and car production.

The implementation of the China-EU landmark geographical indications (GIs) agreement fully demonstrates the two sides' commitment to free and open trade and supporting multilateral trade system based on rules, Wang Wenbin, spokesperson from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said at a ...

China-EU landmark geographical indications (GIs) agreement took effect on Monday, protecting the first batch of 100 European GIs in China and 100 Chinese GIs in the EU against usurpation and imitation, which observers said reflect increased mutual trust between two ...

China Eastern Airlines will be the first customer for the domestically made C919 aircraft, and the first unit will be delivered this year, the airline said on Monday.

China has rolled out more than 718,000 5G base stations, with 5G network covering all cities at the prefectural level or above, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xiao Yaqing said on Monday, revealing the country also has plans for ...

China's release of a draft rare-earth management rule in January aims at standardizing the industry in accordance with the long-term development and market demand, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said during a press briefing Monday in response to ...

China will fully open its manufacturing sector and orderly relax entry restriction of foreign capital into telecommunications sector, in order to attract more advanced manufacturing projects, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Monday.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) disclosed Monday that it is "mapping" 41 major industries and its sub-sections with a view to addressing weaknesses and increasing resilience.

Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group plans to bring flying car developed by its aviation branch Wofei Changkong Technology Co with German air taxi developer Volocopter to the Chinese market in about three years, Wofei Changkong Technology Co CEO Jing ...

China to orderly relax entry restrictions of foreign capital into telecommunications sector: MIIT

Foreign investment law has created a more market-oriented, legalized, and international investment environment for foreign investors and enterprises, and has been acting as a guarantee for an increase of 4.5 percent of foreign direct investment (FDI) to China last year, ...

China's industrial added-value reached $4.84 trillion in 2020, No.1 manufacturing economy for 11 consecutive years

China's Caixin Manufacturing PMI in February was 50.9, down from previous month of 51.5, showing a weakened recovery trend of manufacturing industry.

Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou was scheduled to return to the British Columbia Supreme Court in Canada on Monday, as the court will hear the arguments related to the four branches of abuse of process raised by her lawyers. Both her ...

Despite the US government's attempt to get rid of the Chinese supply chain, Chinese syringe and needle suppliers are dealing with a production expansion after orders continue to increase worldwide, with the US setting the trend. Several large producers have ...

The Biden administration's reported move to allow a Trump-era rule targeting Chinese technology firms to take effect soon is a signal that the Biden government will continue cracking on China's tech rise like the Trump administration, although Biden's overall strategy ...

China has launched a pineapple themed high-speed rail line to promote pineapples produced in Xuwen, South China's Guangdong province. Local farmers already witnessed a surge of sales over the weekend, after pineapples from the island of Taiwan were banned by ...

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 ...

Suning.com, one of China's largest retail groups and the owner of Italian football club Inter Milan, sold 23 percent of its stake to state-owned investors in order to improve its equity structure and its long-term strategy.

With many Hong Kong-based deputies to the national legislature and members of the top political advisory body set to attend the upcoming two sessions in Beijing, they are bringing a flurry of proposals and suggestions focused on further boosting economic ...

From "large gains" to "heavy losses," a good number of young Chinese investors who are jumping on the bandwagon of public equity fund investment have experienced a roller-coaster of a ride over the past few months.

While Canada's appreciation for India's vaccine cooperation could be seen by some as a sign of the latter's success in the so-called "vaccine diplomacy," it is the South Asian nation's tremendous pharmaceutical capacity that really needs to be recognized for ...

Chinese controversial semiconductor maker Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (HSMC) has reportedly issued a noticed to dismiss all staff members, which industry analysts said may be a sign of the total failure of the problematic project but will be unlikely ...

China's manufacturing activity remained in expansion territory in February, but at a slower pace compared with January, due to the impact of the Spring Festival holidays and COVID-19 flare-ups earlier this year, said analysts.

Chinese liquor giant Kweichow Moutai's operating income exceeded 114 billion yuan ($17.66 billion) as the total profit increased by 18.2 percent in 2020. The stock price increased by more than 57 percent and the market value increased by 827.6 billion ...

The Biden administration seems to have “set the tone” for steering his country's relationship with China by engaging in “extremely fierce competition”, which is contrary to what most Chinese people have hoped for a US policy reversal after four truculent ...

The Guangdong provincial government has published plans to pioneer the promotion of competition policies in the Guangdong-HongKong-Macao Greater Bay Area on Sunday focusing on anti-monopoly and anti-improper competition to upgrade the level of market integration, build an internationally competitive area ...

Preparation work for rules of origin and tariff concessions of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are being comprehensively promoted, China's General Administration of customs said on Sunday.

Huawei will enhance coordinated innovation of cloud, channel and device technologies, and over the next two to three years build a high-quality cloud ecosystem, said founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei in a written statement released on Huawei internal social network ...

The Chinese appetite for Thai durian remains strong despite the coronavirus pandemic. China imported 575,000 tons of durians worth 14.7 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) from Thailand in 2020, up 78 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives ...

As the snowstorm-induced power outage affected up to 4.3 million residents in Texas, the US, a Chinese official said on Saturday that China's national electricity grid has the capacity to withstand extreme weather patterns, and ensure a reliable and stable ...

China's economic output is forecast to account for more than 17 percent of the world's economy in the coronavirus-plagued 2020. As the sole economy recording positive GDP growth last year, China will ramp up efforts and strive to achieve higher ...

China's economy grew by 2.3 percent year on year in 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will commence the proceedings to delist shares of China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) in early March, a step which experts said shows the US' toughening position on Chinese companies listed in the US ...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Friday called for "strong and determined action" from Group of 20 (G20) policymakers to counter "dangerous divergence" between and within economies.

A panel of advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended on Friday to authorize Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.

China's Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council unveiled on Friday the third list of 65 tax-exempt goods from the second batch of US imports that had been hit with additional tariffs in retaliation to the US 301 investigation against ...

US President Joe Biden's trade pick Katherine Tai took a tough stance on China during her Senate confirmation testimony as US Trade Representative on Thursday, backing tariffs as a “legitimate tool” to counter China and vowing to hold Beijing to ...

Tokyo stocks closed lower Wednesday, as technology-related shares weighed on the market following their US peers's retreat on Wall Street overnight.

Boeing in its new forecast on Wednesday projected demand for 2,610 new airplanes in Latin America and the Caribbean over the next two decades.

China's Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), the country's space science satellite also known as Insight, has found that a fast radio burst (FRB) signal detected last year came from a magnetar in the Milky Way, Chinese scientists announced recently.

Chinese mainland's latest import ban on pineapples from Taiwan will hit the island's pineapple industry hard, which highly depends on the mainland market, said industry insiders from both sides of the Taiwan Straits reached by the Global Times on Friday.

The contribution of science and technology to China's economic growth was estimated to top 60 percent in 2020, Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang said on Friday, achieving the 60 percent target laid out for the 13th Five-Year Plan ...

After the Chinese enamel spittoon (or chamber pot) was sold as an "enamel fruit basket" on US e-commerce platform Amazon at a shockingly-high price, inquiries and orders for the enamel spittoon rushed to Chinese manufacturers.

China saw a robust investment in fixed assets in transportation in January this year, official data showed on Friday, showing an upward construction trend amid the background of the country's economy recovery.

The Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands on Friday condemned a motion passed by the Dutch House of Representatives which declared "genocide" is taking place in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, saying the move deliberately smeared China and grossly interfered in ...

China appreciates the European Commission's vow in its new trade policy review to continue valuing economic relations with China, while opposing the European Union (EU)'s false accusation that China adopts unique state capitalism which poses a challenge to global economic ...

China launched a new government body for the promotion of rural vitalization on Thursday, marking overall victory in the battle against poverty and a starting point of fulfilling rural revitalization and a new life and new struggle.

The energy projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework are invested in by Chinese companies and the Pakistani government doesn't have to pay any debt, let alone does this cause any debt burden for the Pakistani side, Zhao Lijian, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday presented medals, certificates and plaques to 1,982 personnel and 1,501 collectives as China's model poverty fighters, of which more than 500 recipients were enterprises and representatives of enterprises, coming from industries such as the ...

China cut its composite tariff rate for imported goods by about 27.5 percent in the five years ended in 2020, customs data showed, and experts predicted that the country would likely halve the current rates by the end of 2035 ...

With the one-year countdown to the Winter Olympics in Beijing underway, some anti-China forces cannot pass up opportunity to use the high-profile sports event to vilify China, including Canada, the US and the UK.

With US ports facing a serious container backlog that has disrupted China-US commerce move under the impact of the pandemic, China's leading shipping company has moved swiftly to send more than 400 empty containers to the US to ease the ...

A former Bank of China official who fled to the US in 2001 after embezzling over $800 million and was repatriated in 2018, pleaded guilty at a local court in South China's Guangdong on Thursday.

With airlines around the world testing the waters for a digital passport backed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), market watchers said Chinese airlines and tourism information service providers may jump to the bandwagon.

Australia's largest live-fish exporter, Australian Reef Fish Traders, appears to have lost its market access to China after failing to renew its export license, Australia's ABC News reported on Thursday.

What will China's transport sector be like in 2035? According to an industry development plan by the State Council, China will complete 200,000 km of railway, 460,000 km of freeway and complete building up Ice Silk Road in 2035.

Although strict prevention measures in various cities have curbed passenger travel, China's domestic flight activities have rebounded significantly over the past few days. Market watchers and insiders said China's aviation industry is expected to record a V-shaped recovery in the ...

China's plan to build a global rapid logistics circle for goods by 2035, which would allow goods to be delivered to neighboring countries and major international cities within two- three days, will likely boost China's trade with major economies in ...

Following the issuance of the first batch of carbon neutrality bonds in the China Interbank Bond Market recently, four state-owned energy enterprises plan to issue carbon-neutral bonds totaling more than 10 billion yuan ($1.55 billion) on Wednesday, reflecting domestic enterprises' ...

Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi said Thursday that it has tied with two new manufacturing partners BYD and DBG in India to set up factories in the country, ramping up its localization strategy. The No.1 smartphone brand in terms of shipment ...

China's Ministry of Transport on Thursday urged all freight delivery businesses to always adhere to the principle of putting the safety of people's lives and property in the first place, as it responds to a recent fatal incident which occurred ...

Some global banks including Credit Suisse are purportedly relocating bankers from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland, in an effort to sharpen their competitive edge in the world's second-largest economy which is spinning along in a sweeping push for financial ...

A class I recall was conducted for around 43,912 kilograms of Mingyang hotpot seasoning with ingredient of beef tallow exported from China to US due to concerns of food safety, according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of ...

Oil and gas discovered in the past decade reached 10.1 billion tons and 6.85 trillion cubic meters respectively, accounting for 25% and 45% of the total explored sum since 1949, revealed the Ministry of Natural Resources at a media conference ...

Shanghai has released a plan on Thursday stating that it would increase the annual productivity of new-energy vehicles (NEVs) to 1.2 million by 2025, pushing the industrial output value to 350 billion yuan ($54 billion), equaling over 35 percent of ...

China's composite tariff rate for imported goods dropped to 15.8 percent, the lowest level in history, from 21.8 percent in the five years ending 2020, as the country rolled out a rangeof measures to open up its market to the ...

Chinese conglomerates including Alibaba Group and Dalian Wanda Group were credited on Thursday in Beijing for their efforts in eradicating poverty over the past years. From characteristic tourism to e-commerce, many business strategies and technological achievements have contributed to the ...

Huawei new foldable MateX2 handset series were sold out seconds after the purchase channels were opened Thursday Morning on all major online shopping platforms due to the limited release and large demand.

The Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen have been included in the regulatory currency structure of Russia's National Wealth Fund (NWF), the country's Finance Ministry announced Wednesday.

ABB launched next-generation collaborative robots on Wednesday in Shanghai, as the Switzerland-based robot company pushes ahead with its business in the Chinese market despite the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Chinese private auto company, Geely Auto, and Sweden's Volvo Cars agreed on a broad collaboration for synergies, including combining their powertrain operations with a focus on next-generation hybrid systems and internal combustion engines, Geely said on late Wednesday.

Global barley suppliers including Argentina and France are swiftly filling the supply gap in China left by Australian exporters. With new supply chains taking shape, it will be hard for Australian farmers and exporters to win back their markets share ...

The United States is not a front-runner in creating its own sovereign cryptocurrency, but thanks to the country's enormous financial influence, the world will still be watching closely any new developments by its central bank.

China has made remarkable achievements in lifting approximately 100 million people from poverty, a hard-won result of top-down policy support, nation-wide solidarity and commercial innovation.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), the operator of Hong Kong's stock exchange, on Wednesday revealed record earnings for 2020, in the latest sign of the city's resilience as a global financial hub despite complicated global environment.

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Wednesday that it looks forward to working with its US counterparts to put China-US trade and economic ties back on the track of cooperation. A Chinese expert said this could be one of ...

Signing the executive order demanding "Buy American" only five days in the White House, Joe Biden has demonstrated his unequivocal support to the country's manufacturing industry at the beginning of his presidency.

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Wednesday said that it hoped that Australia would do more to help bilateral cooperation and mutual trust in line with the spirit of their comprehensive strategic partnership, and promote the sound and stable growth ...

Lenovo announced on Tuesday that the world's biggest computer maker started installation of national supercomputer for SURF in the Netherlands.

The People's Bank of China (PBC), the country's central bank, announced on Wednesday that its digital currency institute has jointly launched a multilateral central bank digital currency (CBDC) “bridge” research project with other central banks and monetary authorities to promote ...

Direct flights between China and France have been cut after the French authorities said that two flights by Chinese carriers that were scheduled to depart in the coming days were cancelled.

From ski manufacturers to snow log makers, winter sports industries from all over the world are optimistic about the huge market opportunities brought by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics despite some foreign politicians' threat to boycott the games.

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said that it has made informal contacts with member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to get to know everything about the free trade pact, a vice minister said on Wednesday.

China-US trade rises amid difficulties in 2020: Ministry of Commerce

China's ports recorded a robust growth of cargo throughput in January amid the country's steady economic recovery, data from the Ministry of Transport showed.

Hong Kong will roll out counter-cyclical measures worth over 120 billion Hong Kong dollars (15.48 billion U.S. dollars) this year to prop up its economy reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior HKSAR official said when delivering the annual budget ...

The state-owned China Life Insurance is investigating alleged financial fraud concerning its branch office at Nenjiang, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province after a person who claimed to be an employee of the company posted a complaint in real name online. The ...

Chinese Uber-like freight company Huolala made an announcement on Wednesday apologizing for the recent death of a 23-year-old woman.

South China's Hainan Province released a plan saying that it would popularize 25,000 new-energy vehicles (NEVs) in 2021, including using NEVs to replace old government cars.

Beijing has investigated and prosecuted 244 people suspected of involving in 202 criminal cases related to the coronavirus in 2020, according to the annual work report of the People's Procuratorate of Beijing Municipality.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Tuesday that U.S. economic recovery remains uneven and far from complete, and the path ahead is highly uncertain.

China's CCTV and South Korea's public television network KBS signed an agreement on Monday to cooperate in various aspects of the cultural industry, which Chinese experts said is a significant move to promote the cultural communication between the two countries.