China Industries
A moviegoer checks out film posters at a cinema in Yichang city, Hubei province, Central China, on July 24, 2025. [Photo/VCG] BEIJING — China’s 2025 summer box office, including presales, has exceeded 7 billion yuan ($979 million) as of 9:28 pm on Sunday, according to the online box office tracker. The country’s summer filmgoing season…
HARBIN — In a farm owned by China’s leading agricultural conglomerate, Beidahuang Group, digital sentinels stand watch over rice fields beneath the scorching sun. These advanced monitors oversee weather and soil conditions, transmitting real-time data back to a central farming control center. The Youyi Farm, the country’s first large-scale mechanized state-owned farm established in 1954…
China’s southern Hainan province will launch a comprehensive zero-tariff system for imports starting Dec 18, when it begins operating as a special Customs regulatory area, experts said on Monday, marking a major step in its push to become a globally competitive free trade hub. The new policy, approved by China’s finance, Customs and tax authorities,…
A cashier counts RMB notes in a bank in Haian, Jiangsu province. [Photo/Sipa] Chinese policymakers are likely to maintain accommodative monetary conditions in the second half of the year, remaining prepared to step up policy support in case of any significant economic slowdown pressures or unexpected external shocks, analysts said on Monday. Soft domestic inflation…
Visitors gather at a booth where a game show is put on by the organizer during the China Joy, a yearly gaming event, in Shanghai. XU PEIQIN/FOR CHINA DAILY The sales income generated in the Chinese domestic games market surged 14.08 percent year-on-year to 168 billion yuan ($23.4 billion) in the first half of this…
People visit Guangdong village, which borders the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in Helong of Jilin province, in July. SHAO ZEDONG/XINHUA HOHHOT — A domed ceiling painted with cherubs decorates the airport. Castlelike facades line the boulevards, and oversized matryoshka doll-shaped hotels loom overhead. This place may look like a Russian fairy tale town, but it’s…
China’s renewable energy sector cemented its dominance in new power capacity additions in the first half, accounting for 60 percent of the nation’s total capacity, the National Energy Administration said on Thursday. China added 268 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity during the first six months, a 99.3 percent increase year-on-year, representing 91.5 percent of all…
On Dec 15, 2024, at Xi’an Xianyang International Airport, a pet dog prepares to board a pet charter flight operated by Hainan Airlines from Northwest China’s Xi’an to the southern city of Sanya. [Photo/Xinhua] Domestic airlines are either introducing or expanding services that allow flyers to take their pets along with them in cabin, as…
BEIJING — China’s green transition continued to drive the development of renewable energy, which accounted for 91.5 percent of its total newly installed power capacity in the first half of 2025, official data showed Thursday. The country’s newly installed capacity of renewable energy totaled 268 million kilowatts during the January-June period, nearly doubling compared to…
BEIJING — China’s new growth drivers continued to expand steadily in 2024, contributing a greater share to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), official data showed Thursday. The value-added output of these emerging sectors, comprising new industries, new business formats, and new business models, increased by 6.7 percent year-on-year last year, the National Bureau of…