The nation's exports shrank in October, the first such decline since mid-2020, customs authorities said on Monday, as a domestic slowdown and the threat of global recession hit international trade. Exports fell 0.3 percent year-on-year in October, a...

Apple said Covid restrictions have "temporarily impacted" production at the world's largest iPhone factory in central China, warning that customers will now face longer wait times ahead of the holiday season. Foxconn, Apple's principal subcontractor...

Guangdong province on Sunday reported 1,582 new local Covid infections – up from 888 the day before – with authorities offering door-to-door PCR tests in a district in Guangzhou where most of the cases were found. Most of the recent Covid infect...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced an agreement on Friday to let expatriates on the mainland use the Covid-19 vaccine from Germany's BioNTech and pressed for Beijing to allow the shot to be made freely available to Chinese citizens. On his firs...

President Xi Jinping said the German chancellor's visit to Beijing will "deepen practical cooperation" between the two countries as he met Olaf Scholz in Beijing on Friday. Xi said he believed the visit would "enhance mutual understanding and mutual...

Shenzhou-14 astronauts have entered the Mengtian lab module of China's under-construction space station, Tiangong. According to the China Manned Space Agency, the Shenzhou-14 crew entered Mengtian at 3:12pm on Thursday, Beijing time. The agency sai...

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said on Wednesday it was shutting its news bureau in Beijing after waiting two years in vain for a China work permit for its journalists. The publicly owned news outlet had numerous exchanges with Chinese offici...

The nation will be able to maintain normal monetary policy and positive interest rates for as long as possible with its potential economic growth likely to stay within a reasonable range, its central bank governor said. The world's second-biggest ec...

A vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), Fang Xinghai, told the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit on Wednesday that Hong Kong plays an important role in the further growth of the mainland economy, such as develo...

An industral park in Zhengzhou that hosts an iPhone factory belonging to Foxconn announced a fresh Covid-19 lockdown on Wednesday. The Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone in central China said it would impose "silent management" measures with immediate e...

The Mengtian lab module has successfully docked with the under-construction Tiangong space station. Mengtian, which was blasted into space on Monday afternoon, docked with Tianhe, the space station's core module, at 4:27am on Tuesday Beijing time af...

The United States should stop trying to contain and suppress China and avoid creating obstacles to the relationship between the two countries, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his US counterpart on Monday. Wang also said in a Monday phone call with US ...

China on Monday launched the Mengtian lab module, the third and final module of the nation's Tiangong space station. The module was carried into space by a Long March-5B Y4 carrier rocket and lifted off at 3:37pm from Hainan. It will first unfold it...

Mainland Chinese residents will be allowed to visit Macau using an online visa system as of Tuesday, officials said, streamlining travel to the world's largest gambling hub after more than two years of pandemic restrictions. Macau is the only place ...

The nation's factory activity shrank in October, official data showed on Monday, after industries were hit by the pandemic. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) – a key gauge of manufacturing in the world's second-biggest economy – came in at 49...

President Xi Jinping on Sunday sent his condolences to South Korea, saying he was shocked to learn of the stampede that caused heavy casualties. "On behalf of the Chinese government and the people of China, I express our deep condolences for the vi...

Macau authorities on Sunday ordered all residents to undergo three consecutive days of rapid antigen tests, after the gaming hub reported three new Covid infections involving the same family. Officials said that in order to prevent social transmiss...

The Chinese embassy in South Korea confirmed on Sunday that four Chinese nationals were among those killed in a stampede in the Itaewon district of Seoul on Saturday night during Halloween celebrations. Two others, meanwhile, suffered minor injuries....

In what is believed to be a world first, Shanghai this week introduced a new type of Covid-19 vaccine that is inhaled rather than administered via injection. Mainland regulators approved the vaccine, produced by Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino B...

Beijing mayor Chen Jining has been appointed Communist Party secretary of Shanghai, succeeding Li Qiang who is now the second-ranked state leader. Chen, 58, was named a member of the Politburo at the recently concluded 20th party congress. Chen bec...