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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…

Changing habits of Chinese consumers may be pot of gold

A visitor experiences a passenger-carrying drone at the booth of EHang at the 5th China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) in Haikou, South China’s Hainan province, April 15, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] The transformation of Chinese consumption habits is accelerating, with consumers poised to boost spending on leisure, entertainment and healthcare goods and services as they shift…

Deep-sea intelligent aquaculture vessel delivered for use in China’s Qingdao

An aerial drone photo taken on April 17, 2025 shows a deep-sea intelligent aquaculture vessel berthed at the port of Beihai yard in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province.[Photo/Xinhua] QINGDAO – A 150,000-ton deep-sea intelligent aquaculture vessel was delivered for use Thursday in East China’s port city of Qingdao. The ship, built with investment from the…

BrandOS rankings highlight global marketing trends

The BrandOS Global Social Media Influence Rankings for the first quarter of 2025, released on Wednesday by the China International Council for the Promotion of Multinational Corporations, highlight key trends in global brand marketing and offer a reference for overseas enterprises in shaping their marketing strategies, experts said. The BrandOS Rankings are the first non-commercial…

Majority of Shanghai exports are irreplaceable, official says

Containers from all over the world wait to be loaded or unloaded at Yangshan Port near Shanghai on April 24. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn] Intermediate goods and industrial products account for the majority of 85 percent of all the goods exported from Shanghai, indicating that a large number of Shanghai-oriented exports are irreplaceable in the…

Guangdong foreign trade surges to record high amid tariff tensions

Dongguan in South China’s Guangdong province is a busy port on the Pearl River. [Photo provided to China Daily] Guangdong province, China’s biggest foreign trader, purchased 798.15 billion yuan ($112.42 billion) worth of products from overseas nations and regions in the first quarter of the year. The figure witnessed a year-on-year growth of 9.3 percent,…

Toy industry reinvents itself for senior citizens

Senior citizens play a brain-training game at an elderly care service center in Yunhe county of Lishui city, Zhejiang province, on Nov 10, 2023. XU YU/XINHUA HANGZHOU — Guan Weijiang, a veteran children’s toy merchant based in East China’s Yiwu for over a decade, is seeing online orders surge this year, not from children, but…

Rail freight from Hebei makes way to Hanoi

The first freight train connecting North China’s Hebei province to Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, arrives in a station in Hanoi on Aug 2, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua] Hebei province is strengthening its role as a logistics hub for China-ASEAN trade, with the launch of an upgraded rail freight route aimed at streamlining cargo movement and cutting supply…

EXIM Bank Shanghai supports WINIT’s overseas warehousing expansion

A teller counts and arranges dollar notes at an Agricultural Bank of China branch in Qionghai, Hainan province. [Photo/China Daily] The Shanghai branch of the Export-Import Bank of China has recently completed foreign exchange trading business for the e-commerce overseas warehousing service provider WINIT, marking its first business of the kind, according to information provided…

Workshop on AI governance and sustainable development held in HK

The workshop focuses on advancing the recommendations outlined in the report on Governing AI for Good and for All — Empowering Global Sustainable Development, which was officially released at the summit. [Photo/wicinternet.org] The Workshop on AI Governance and Sustainable Development: for Good and for All was convened in Hong Kong during the World Internet Conference…