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4 Mar 1960
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Mayor of Shanghai
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China eatery owners use cancer-hit business rival’s payment QR code for day to raise funds
Well-liked 50-year-old who worked so hard ‘he had no time to go to the toilet’ feels love of fellow food sellers who raise US$2,900 in 24 hours.
22 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM
Greater Bay Area
How Shanghai leverages arts and events to fuel tourism and power economic growth
31 Oct 2025 - 10:51AM
Banking & finance
Shanghai to scrap all foreign investment limits on manufacturing
12 Oct 2025 - 8:30PM
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US-China tech war
For Nvidia, losing China’s AI market would be ‘tremendous loss’, CEO says
China’s AI market is likely to grow to US$50 billion in the next two to three years, Huang told US broadcaster CNBC.
7 May 2025 - 2:00PM
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Semiconductors
Nvidia denies China joint venture report after Jensen Huang’s whirlwind visit
The denial of joint venture plans comes as the US chip giant is trying to navigate its way through an intensifying US-China tech war.
29 Apr 2025 - 10:41PM
China's economic recovery
China vows punishments if business gripes are verified in investigation
In Beijing’s bid to realise ambitious economic growth goals for this year, steps are being taken to ensure local-level authorities are pulling their weight and not making matters worse for struggling businesses.
15 Mar 2024 - 6:48PM
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China property
Shanghai’s commercial property landlords face pressure to lower rents
Owners of commercial properties in Shanghai are under pressure to cut rents to support restaurants and retailers facing the daunting task of sustaining their businesses amid lacklustre consumer demand.
12 Feb 2024 - 9:30AM
Artificial intelligence
Ant Group inks partnership with Shanghai to help the city’s AI ambitions
Ant Group and the Shanghai municipal government have struck a partnership that would see the two parties deepen their collaboration in fields such as blockchain and artificial intelligence.
1 Feb 2024 - 8:40PM
China's economic recovery
Tesla, Porsche chip in as Shanghai allays cross-border data flow ‘sore point’
China’s industrial and commercial hub of Shanghai is seeking to roll out a three-tiered cross-border data flow regulation by March in a bid to address a long-standing ‘sore point’ for foreign firms.
31 Jan 2024 - 4:43PM
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Shanghai
Shanghai offers financing and land-use support to foreign investors
Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng said the policy initiative to support more foreign direct investments would buttress the city’s economic recovery efforts in 2024.
27 Jan 2024 - 4:19PM
China stock market
China’s stock market rout hurts more than fiction of Blossoms Shanghai
Today, not much resembles the reels in Blossoms Shanghai. China’s legion of 200 million retail investors can be forgiven for hankering for that gravity-defying bygone era of the 1990s.
27 Jan 2024 - 10:53AM
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Banking & finance
Shanghai fails to achieve 5.5% economic growth target for 2023
The city’s GDP expanded 5 per cent last year as the global economy turned out to be weaker than expected, Mayor Gong Zheng told an annual session of the Shanghai People’s Congress on Tuesday.
23 Jan 2024 - 4:12PM
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China’s Communist Party
China’s premier, top officials pay tribute to late AI visionary Tang Xiao’ou
Li Qiang, Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang among Chinese leaders paying respects to the leading facial recognition expert and SenseTime co-founder, who died Friday.
20 Dec 2023 - 11:39PM
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US-China tech war
Shanghai taps miHoYo, SenseTime and SMEE among its inaugural 40 tech champions
Shanghai names 40 tech champions as city continues to bolster tech credentials amid central government support for strategic sectors.
5 Dec 2023 - 8:00PM
China stock market
Hong Kong leader John Lee pursues stronger economic ties with Shanghai at CIIE 2023
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has urged the strengthening of economic ties between Shanghai and Hong Kong to build world-class tech start-ups.
6 Nov 2023 - 12:22PM
Hong Kong economy
China’s commerce minister urges Hong Kong to use strengths to help firms expand
Commerce minister Wang Wentao says Hong Kong should cultivate new growth points in digitalisation and green trade.
6 Nov 2023 - 8:22AM
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China property
Shanghai economic demand seen driven by US rate cuts in 2024: govt adviser
Shanghai’s economy, dealt a double blow by China’s troubled property sector and the nation’s tumbling stock market this year, could see better days in 2024 when the US is widely expected to lower interest rates, a government economic adviser said
24 Oct 2023 - 7:00AM
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Electric & new energy vehicles
Shanghai mayor vows to attract more foreign firms like Tesla, Boston Scientific
Mayor Gong Zheng said more landmark deals are in the works as Shanghai tries to burnish its image as an international investment magnet.
15 Oct 2023 - 9:30PM
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Taiwan
Taipei mayor leads delegation to Shanghai as Beijing ramps up pressure on Taiwan
Rising KMT star Wayne Chiang says an annual forum is an opportunity to improve dialogue and stability.
29 Aug 2023 - 5:42PM
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China's economic recovery
With lots of work to do, Shanghai urged to show ‘dragon’s head’ in investor push
Shanghai is inviting foreign businesses to invest in high-quality projects through an ‘global investment partner’ scheme, but the number of European firms with Asia-Pacific headquarters in China’s economic hub has dropped.
22 Jun 2023 - 8:00AM
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Singapore
Singapore’s Lawrence Wong cements ties with China leaders in ‘timely’ visit
Lawrence Wong’s meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang indicates a mutual desire to push forward cooperation ‘driven at the senior levels’, one analyst notes
17 May 2023 - 6:42PM
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Shanghai
Shanghai pledges more support for small businesses to boost economic recovery
Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng on Sunday said more economic sweeteners, such as tax cuts and government subsidies, are now in the works to address the problems faced by the city’s small businesses.
15 Jan 2023 - 9:38PM
Shanghai
Shanghai eyes 5.5 per cent consumption-led economic growth for 2023
Shanghai will strive to achieve economic growth of 5.5 per cent in 2023, despite the headwinds buffeting the global economy, according to Mayor Gong Zheng.
11 Jan 2023 - 3:30PM
Shanghai
Can ‘peanut’ e-coupon lottery save Shanghai’s Covid-hit retail economy?
Can 1 billion yuan (US$140.5 million) of e-coupons save Shanghai’s battered retail industry? It’s peanuts, but a good start nonetheless, analysts say.
4 Oct 2022 - 12:36PM
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China’s 20th Party Congress
What does it take to get promoted in Chinese politics? Up-and-comers offer clues
Those with business or tech backgrounds, regional leadership experience and connections to Xi most likely to be promoted, observers say.
22 Sep 2022 - 6:00AM
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Coronavirus China
Shanghai financial forum falls victim to Covid-19 concerns
Shanghai called off the Lujiazui Forum, the city’s most important financial conference, the day before it was scheduled to start after officials detected a new Covid-19 infection for the first time in a week.
6 Sep 2022 - 5:55PM
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Artificial intelligence
China’s biggest AI forum kicks off under cloud of latest US export ban
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai on Thursday, but the proceedings were under the cloud of new US export restrictions on high-end chips to China.
1 Sep 2022 - 8:08PM
China's economic recovery
‘This isn’t easy’: 16 of China’s provinces pledge GDP goals are within reach
Boosting regional economies is expected to be a key metric in evaluating the performances of China’s local officials ahead of the important 20th Party Congress, but analysts are asking how economic growth goals can be met.
9 Aug 2022 - 10:21AM
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