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Top 10 Chinese cities with the most job opportunities

Guangzhou in South China’s Guangdong province provides the most job opportunities in enterprises in the first quarter of this year, a report said. With development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area set to begin, Guangzhou witnessed 24.95 percent year-on-year growth in recruitment demand in Q1, according to the report by 58 Tongcheng Recruitment Research Institute.…

Top 10 Chinese industries producing billionaires

The TMT, or technology, media and telecom sector has created the most billionaires in China, with 80 from the sector according to business magazine New Fortune’s 500 rich list in 2019. China’s richest man — Tencent’s Pony Ma — is from that sector, with a personal wealth of 226.04 billion yuan. Supported by technology, online…

Top 10 most-downloaded apps in 2020

TikTok, the video-sharing app developed by Chinese internet company ByteDance, overtook Facebook to become the most downloaded app globally in 2020, according to an industry report by App Annie, a mobile data and analytics service provider. Facebook ranked second, followed by WhatsApp Messenger, Zoom and Instagram. The downloads’ data is based on combined results from…

Top 10 Chinese cities with highest life quality in 2020-2021

The China Economic Life Survey (2020-2021) revealed the top 10 Chinese cities with the highest quality of life in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on April 23, 2021. The survey, which was jointly conducted by CCTV News, National Bureau of Statistics, China Post Corporation, and National School of Development at Peking University, has continued for 15 years,…

Chip sector innovation seen as confidence boost

Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken Feb 25, 2022. [Photo/Agencies] With unchanged confidence in China’s ongoing technology upgrading and the potential implied in its massive market size, European high-end printed circuit boards and integrated circuit substrates provider AT&S Group will continue production localization and technology…

Top 10 power business women in China

Wang Laichun, chairwoman and founder of electronics manufacturer Luxshare Precision, tops the 100 power business women in China list, again, which was released by Forbes China on March 7. As the ninth edition of the Forbes 100 power business women, the list covers female executives in Chinese listed companies, women leaders of top multinational performers…

Top 10 most valuable cities in the world

Twelve Chinese cities were evaluated as the top 100 most valuable cities in the world, according to a ranking released by brand value evaluation agency GYbrand on Feb 26, 2023 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. The top 100 most valuable cities are from 47 countries, with the United States taking the lead with 20 and China…

China issues nearly 1.5t yuan in new local govt bonds in Jan-April

BEIJING — China’s local governments issued new bonds worth about 1.49 trillion yuan ($207.63 billion) in the first four months of 2025, data from the Ministry of Finance showed Wednesday. Of the total, special-purpose bond issuance came in at over 1.19 trillion yuan, while general-purpose bond issuance amounted to 302.3 billion yuan. By the end…

Refined oil demand to decline at a faster pace

This photo shows a charging station powered by the solar array at an industrial park in Liyang, a county-level city under Changzhou in East China’s Jiangsu province, April 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] China’s refined oil demand is expected to decline at a faster pace in 2025 as the country’s energy transition accelerates, said industry experts. While…

Factory activity sees marginal uptick in May

This photo taken on June 7, 2024 shows a smart assembly line at Seres Group’s super factory in Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing, Southwest China. [Photo/Xinhua] China’s factory activity improved marginally in May, but remained in contraction zone for a second consecutive month, with analysts pointing to the need for stronger fiscal support to further boost…