China’s financial hub is putting in more effort to attract and retain overseas capital as economic, trade landscape grows more uncertain.
China is betting big on birth subsidies to stave off a demographic crisis. But do cash payments really work?
The country’s energy regulator called for the ‘healthy and orderly’ growth of small-scale, distributed solar power and dissuaded monopolies.
25 Mar 2025 - 4:00PM videocam
Shipyards are rolling out huge vessels capable of carrying 8,600 cars as China’s auto industry seeks to accelerate its global expansion.
The Chinese city has outlined a three-year strategy to boost inbound tourism that aims to move beyond its historic landmarks.
19 Mar 2025 - 10:05AM videocam
The Post breaks down Beijing’s new 30-point action plan, which targets a slew of underlying issues holding back consumption.
17 Mar 2025 - 9:30PM videocam
The 30-point strategy to drive up consumer spending tackles a slew of underlying issues, from low wages to the real estate crisis.
17 Mar 2025 - 7:40PM videocam
After ‘two sessions’, State Council passes work plan that clarifies division of tasks among departments, emphasising interdepartmental coordination.
13 Mar 2025 - 2:40PM videocam
The new varieties could be used as a substitute for soybeans in animal feed, reducing China’s grain imports by millions of tonnes.
As China continues its economic transformation, some industries stand to gain tremendously – and others are being left in the dust.
9 Mar 2025 - 6:00AM videocam
Beijing has reacted to earlier Canadian levies with new duties on food products even though both are facing Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
8 Mar 2025 - 5:59PM videocam
Years after Beijing called for ‘age-appropriate sex education for minors’, a national curriculum remains absent as China’s demographic crisis worsens.
7 Mar 2025 - 9:30PM videocam
Top economic officials at marathon ‘two sessions’ press briefing signal China’s ‘unwavering’ determination to safeguard its own interests.
6 Mar 2025 - 10:37PM videocam
The heads of China’s top economic, commerce and financial bodies laid out their plans for 2025 at a joint press conference in Beijing.
With migrant workers in mind, leadership is looking to ‘ensure there’s no large-scale relapse into poverty’.
The policy idea appears to be gaining momentum in China, with a proposal set to be made at this week’s ‘two sessions’.
The president evoked a Mao Zedong slogan to reiterate his confidence in China’s economic triumph at a high-profile meeting on the private sector.
21 Feb 2025 - 9:30PM videocam
For China’s billionaires, founding new universities offers a chance to make money – and demonstrate they are ‘politically correct’.
9 Feb 2025 - 2:06PM videocam
Rapid announcements – and withdrawals – of new measures by the new US administration have kept Chinese exporters’ heads spinning.
7 Feb 2025 - 8:35AM videocam
Southern economic hub reports GDP growth of 3.5 per cent in 2024, the fifth-slowest rate among China’s 31 provincial jurisdictions.
Shanghai and Guangdong, two of China’s major exporting regions, have set modest growth targets as leaders warn of ‘external factors’.
15 Jan 2025 - 5:00PM videocam
A city in China has defied national trends and reported a 17 per cent increase in births, credited to sizeable cash payments for parents.
15 Jan 2025 - 9:30AM videocam
Assurance from National Health Commission comes amid fears of surging respiratory illness, with disease expert citing slowing trend.
China’s biggest economic powerhouse seeks to become a ‘global innovation hub’ by developing treatments for blindness and paralysis.
12 Jan 2025 - 6:03PM videocam
As China’s companies move to emerging markets, they find clients wanting infrastructure and pathways to local development as well as products.
Thailand is expected to take a tourism and economic hit from Lunar New Year trip cancellations.
10 Jan 2025 - 9:20AM videocam
China’s labour practices are driving a wedge between the world’s biggest EV maker and efforts to expand globally in areas where employee protections are paramount.
13 Jan 2025 - 1:09PM videocam
To address its rapidly ageing population, China is among the first nations to set policy plans for humanoid robots that will provide companionship, monitor health and may even resemble loved ones.
Political mission to narrow China’s wealth divide, thought to have fallen out of favour, makes appearance in Zhejiang’s long-term plans.
7 Jan 2025 - 5:05PM videocam
Though some overseas governments are sceptical, China’s agricultural drones are blanketing countrysides as farmers begin to automate.
2 Jan 2025 - 9:00AM videocam