China Industries
An aerial drone photo taken on March 16, 2025 shows the photovoltaic devices at a parking lot in the Boao zero-carbon demonstration zone in Boao, South China’s Hainan province. [Photo/Xinhua] HAIKOU – South China’s island province of Hainan reported a record-breaking 14.727 billion kilowatt-hours in green electricity and green certificate transactions in 2025, the provincial…
A staff member promotes shoes via live streaming at a network technology company in Ouhai district of Wenzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, Nov 10, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – China has remained the world’s largest online retail market for a 13th consecutive year, with its digital consumption exceeding 23.8 trillion yuan ($3.39 trillion), official data shows.…
A view of Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang province. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] Amid slowing growth in global maritime trade and increasingly complex geopolitical and trade conditions, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port handled over 1.4 billion metric tons of cargo in 2025, becoming the world’s first port to reach that level of annual throughput. According to the Zhejiang…
The recent surge in tomato prices in China was mainly due to the impact of unfavorable weather earlier in the season and tight supplies during the peak marketing period, experts said. Prices have started to ease slightly in mid-January and are likely to see a seasonal decline after the Spring Festival holiday in mid-February. Tomato…
China’s foreign trade is positioned for steady expansion this year despite mounting pressures, building on the strengths exhibited last year — a sustained shift up the value chain in exports, a broadening network of global partners and a supersized domestic market opening wider to imports, said officials and experts. Beijing’s push for balanced trade will…
An aerial photo of the world’s first 20-megawatt offshore wind turbine in the waters off of Zhangzhou, East China’s Fujian province, on Jan 13, 2026. [Photo/Xinhua] The world’s first 20-megawatt offshore wind turbine was successfully installed in the waters off of East China’s Fujian province on Tuesday, its operator, China Three Gorges Corp (CTG), said.…
Employees work on a production line of transformers in Haian, Jiangsu province. GU HUAXIA/FOR CHINA DAILY China is at the forefront of a booming $103 billion market, emerging as the dominant player even as a global shortage of power transformers threatens to stall progress in both artificial intelligence and the shift to green energy, said…
CHENGDU/SANTIAGO — For much of the past decade, Chile’s export of cherries to China ran on a narrow calendar. From December to early the following year, the fruit ripened in Chile’s central valleys. Weeks later, just ahead of the Chinese New Year, those cherries arrived as a seasonal luxury, scarce, expensive and tightly bound to…
The gantry cranes engaged in container loading and unloading operations, in Longgong port, in Jining, East China’s Shandong province, on Dec 30, 2025. [Photo/VCG] Jining, a key hub on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Shandong province, is transforming its ancient waterway into a modern global trade artery by integrating advanced technologies with ecofriendly practices. Jining’s…
In light of factors such as its explosive growth in artificial intelligence at an industrial scale and the fact that Shanghai is home to approximately a third of Chinese AI professionals, the city is rapidly establishing itself as a hub for AI, particularly in the integration of AI with manufacturing, said a recent report. As…