China’s factory output slowed in April but showed surprising resilience, a sign that government support measures may have cushioned the impact of a trade war with the U.S. that threatens to derail momentum in the world’s second-largest economy. Industrial output grew 6.1% from a year earlier, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data showed on Monday, … Read more
Beijing has announced the formation of a new artificial intelligence standardisation technical committee, Reuters reports. The committee will establish industry guidelines for emerging technologies such as large language models and AI risk assessment. As per the wire, the 41-member committee, which includes representatives from prominent tech firms like Baidu and prestigious academic institutions such as … Read more
There was a time when a Chinese internet company’s initial public offering (IPO) was the hottest thing on Wall Street. As the e-commerce giant Alibaba prepared to go public on the New York Stock Exchange a decade ago, the world’s biggest banks competed fiercely to underwrite the offering. When the opening bell rang on September … Read more
It started with a cryptic quote from President Xi Jinping buried in a 172-page book on the financial sector. Three months later, plans for potentially the biggest shift in years in how China conducts monetary policy are starting to surface. Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China, on Wednesday gave the clearest acknowledgment … Read more
The Group of Seven (G7) nations vowed on Friday to tackle what they called unfair business practices by China that were undermining their workers and industries, according to a draft statement on the final day of their annual summit. The G7 also warned of action against Chinese financial institutions that helped Russia obtain weaponry … Read more
Last week’s gold rush may have been triggered by bets on the US Federal Reserve‘s long-anticipated pivot to looser monetary policy, but the foundations for the record rally were laid in China. Prices breached Dec’s record on Tuesday and have jumped to successive daily highs ever since. The rally itself was peculiar: gold tends to … Read more
China has plenty of room to manoeuvre to attain its annual target for robust economic growth of about 5% after a strong start for the year, top economic officials said on Wednesday, though they acknowledged it’s a challenge. China’s exports rose about 10% in the first two months of the year from a year earlier, … Read more
When Kris Lin, who owns a lighting factory in China, received this year’s first order from a close overseas client, he faced a distressing choice: take it at a loss, or tell workers not to come back after the Lunar New Year. “It was impossible for me to lose this order,” said Mr. Lin, who … Read more
The move comes as Europe and the United States scramble to wean themselves off rare earths from China. File. China, the world’s top processor of rare earths, on December 21 banned the export of technology to extract and separate the strategic metals, as it overhauled a list of technologies deemed key to national security. The … Read more