China’s consumer spending reports steady growth in Spring Festival holiday
BEIJING — Chinese consumers ushered in the Spring Festival holiday with a burst of spending, filling restaurants and malls and traveling across the country, which offered an early-year boost to…
Orders for robots surge after Spring Festival Gala
The spotlight at this year’s Spring Festival Gala wasn’t reserved solely for performers and celebrities, as a lineup of cutting-edge humanoid robots made their highly anticipated debut, generating waves of…
Enterprises turn tradition into holiday cheer
A pastry chef instructs visitors in making mooncakes at a Beijing-style pastry making skills exhibition on Sept 5. JIN LIANGKUAI/XINHUA Amid the bustling pre-holiday crowd at a Beijing Daoxiangcun store,…
The allure of a frozen frontier
Under a sky streaked with northern lights, a snow-covered dome lodge glows in the Northwest Territories of Canada on Feb 27, 2025. On clear winter nights in Canada’s northern Yukon…
China urges US to rescind unilateral tariffs
China urges the United States to rescind its unilateral tariff measures imposed on trading partners, stressing that there are “no winners in trade wars” and that “protectionism leads nowhere”, the…
Hainan FTP sees tourism, consumption boom during first Spring Festival after special customs operations
HAIKOU — During the first Spring Festival holiday since the launch of island-wide special customs operations in China’s Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), the southern tropical island has become a…
Trump’s Liberation Day runs into legal fine print, unsettling China and the EU
The chart explains why tariff politics often escalate fast. At 13% of global imports, the U.S. can hurt foreign exporters by taxing access to the U.S. market. At 15% of…
GDP target ‘reasonable’ in key phase
China can reasonably target nominal GDP growth of around 5 percent during the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period, a pace that would support its 2035 goal of reaching the per…
AI collectible toys to buoy consumers
A shopper takes a snapshot of MarveLab’s collectible toys at an outlet in Beijing. China Daily As China’s collectible toy market continues to gain momentum, the sector is expected to…
Folklore behind vegetarian dumplings
Ahead of this year’s Spring Festival, two Egyptian students in Tianjin discovered one of the city’s most iconic culinary traditions by learning how to make vegetarian dumplings with friends, getting…