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China to further develop household service industry

Students of an undergraduate program in home support services at Shanghai Open University attend a cooking class in July 2020. [Photo/chinanews.com] China will further promote the development of its home-based service sector including housekeeping, elder care and childcare services by expanding the scale and upgrading the service quality, and thus cultivate new growth point of…

‘Flying taxis’ poised to revolutionize urban commuting

This photo shows a passenger-carrying drone at the booth of EHang at the 5th China International Consumer Products Expo in Haikou, South China’s Hainan province, April 14, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] HAIKOU – The futuristic vision of gliding above traffic in an autonomous “flying taxi” is fast becoming a reality, thanks to the rise of low-altitude economy…

Rural industries improving in quality, efficiency and revenues

Workers check on the growth of corn seedlings at a smart seedling cultivation center in Muba township, Peng’an county, Sichuan province, on Tuesday. [Photo by Liu Yonghong/For chinadaily.com.cn] With rural industries creating more job opportunities, farmers’ incomes in China continued to rise in the first quarter of the year, a senior official with the Ministry…

Shanghai offers support to export-oriented firms

Tourists take photos at the Bund area of Shanghai. [Photo by Wang Gang/For China Daily] Shanghai on Friday organized a matchmaking event between foreign trade enterprises in Shanghai and local e-commerce firms to help the former group expand sales in China and better integrate into the nation’s economy. The move marks the city’s latest effort…

Industrial economy to maintain uptrend

A robot operates equipment on the assembly line of an automaker in Xi’an, Shaanxi province. YUAN JINGZHI/FOR CHINA DAILY China is confident and capable of stabilizing its sprawling industrial economy, which will underpin the country’s high-quality growth and give stability to global supply chains amid rising external uncertainties and disruptions to world trade systems, officials…

Fudan University publishes index on exports and global supply chain

In response to the global supply chain uncertainties, an index looking to support policy and enterprises’ judgement through quantitative tools was published by Fudan University’s global supply chains research center on April 14. Formally known as China’s Exports & Global Supply Chain Fluctuation Index, the index is published by Fudan Center for Global Supply Chains.…

China, Malaysia back Malaysian airlines operating China-built aircraft

China and Malaysia issued a joint statement on Thursday and stated their support for Malaysian airlines to introduce and operate passenger aircraft developed by China, according to the statement. The aircraft refers to China’s domestically developed C909 regional aircraft and C919 single-aisle planes manufactured by Shanghai-based Commercial Aircraft Corp of China. The C909 aircraft has…

Expo highlights vibration technology innovations

The third Vibrating Machinery Industry Expo of Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley is opened in Xinxiang, Henan province on April 16. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] With the theme of “Creating a New Ecology of Vibration Technology, Witnessing a New Future of Intelligent Manufacturing in Henan,” the third Vibrating Machinery Industry Expo of Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley was launched…

China’s power use up 2.5% in Q1

Two State Grid technicians check power transmission facilities in Chuzhou, Anhui province. [Photo by Song Weixing/For China Daily] BEIJING – China’s electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, reported steady expansion in the first quarter of 2025, official data showed on Friday. Power use rose 2.5 percent year-on-year in the period to hit 2.38…

Yacht economy lifts all boats

The international yachting exhibition section during the China International Consumer Products Expo, held in Haikou, Hainan province. SHA XIAOFENG/FOR CHINA DAILY The global yachting world turned its attention to Sanya, Hainan province this week as the fifth China International Consumer Products Expo, held from Sunday to Friday in the provincial capital of Haikou, hosted its first…