Local authorities roll out more supportive policies as commentators urge officials to ‘strengthen people’s confidence’.
Industry groups and platforms such as JD.com pledge to help streamline domestic access for trade firms.
13 Apr 2025 - 10:00PM videocam
Washington must make ‘significant’ moves and return to the ‘right path’.
13 Apr 2025 - 9:02PM videocam
China National Nuclear Corporation says it received 1.196 million résumés from young jobseekers after offering 8,000 positions.
As trade conflict threatens a complete decoupling, analyst asks: ‘If the US produces everything domestically, why would other countries need the dollar?’.
10 Apr 2025 - 7:50PM videocam
By 2035, China will have ‘basically achieved’ agricultural modernisation, and rural residents will have ‘basically met modern living conditions’, Beijing’s new plan says.
Beijing is offering easier access to credit in a bid to boost consumption, but households are reluctant to take on debt amid a global trade war.
But global supply chains could face ‘significant damage’ that no country is fully protected against, the more a trade war drags out and intensifies.
7 Apr 2025 - 11:10PM videocam
The head of China’s body overseeing film and TV calls micro-dramas a ‘new growth pillar for China’s online audio and video industry’, with growing influence overseas.
27 Mar 2025 - 10:22PM videocam
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?
26 Mar 2025 - 8:47AM videocam
The country’s energy regulator called for the ‘healthy and orderly’ growth of small-scale, distributed solar power and dissuaded monopolies.
27 Mar 2025 - 12:40PM 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