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60 robot teams take part in skills competition in Shanghai

The 2025 International Humanoid Robot Skills Competition is held in Shanghai on Thursday. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.com.cn] More than 60 teams participate in the 2025 International Humanoid Robot Skills Competition held in Shanghai on Thursday, contesting on 28 scenarios such as lifting boxes, garbage disposal, loading and unloading chained boxes, retrieving items from refrigerators and…

China, EU and ASEAN should ‘deepen’ trade ties

In the face of persistent trade tensions with the United States, China and other economies should deepen regional economic cooperation and defend the multilateral trade system, said a senior trade expert. Zhao Zhongxiu, president of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, said in an exclusive interview with China Daily that Washington’s current…

Robot industry thriving in China’s Chongqing

Share – WeChat Technicians debug an explosion-proof wheeled robot at Sevnce Robotics in Southwest China’s Chongqing, May 27, 2025. In recent years, Chongqing has taken multiple measures to promote the development of robot industry. Now it has formed a whole robot industry chain covering R&D, complete machine manufacturing, testing, system integration, parts matching, talent training…

China, US continue dialogue on trade issues

Beijing and Washington have maintained communication on trade-related issues through various multilateral and bilateral events and at multiple levels after the two countries reached a temporary tariff truce in Geneva earlier this month, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. He Yongqian, a spokeswoman for the ministry, told a press conference that China has recently…

China, EU step up cooperation

This aerial drone photo taken on Dec 10, 2024 shows a container terminal of Lianyungang Port, East China’s Jiangsu province. [Photo/Xinhua] China and the European Union are stepping up cooperation as the United States ramps up tariff pressure and global trade fragmentation deepens, signaling the shared commitment of China and the EU to openness, stability and…

Beijing district ready to help global enterprises, including the Netherlands’ firms

Beijing’s Chaoyang district stands ready to provide the best possible services to global enterprises that aspire to expand into the Chinese market, including businesses from the Netherlands, local authorities said during a China-Netherlands enterprise roundtable. The key objective of the roundtable is to create a platform that enables Chinese and the Netherlands’ enterprises to connect,…

US cannot contain China in the field of science and technology

“Currently, one-third of the authors featured in Nature journal are Chinese names. In another 10 years, researchers predicted that it will be half,” said Li Cheng, founding director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong, at the 2025 RCEP Media & Think Tank Forum on May 25.…

Smoother platform economy planned

China’s top market regulator unveiled a draft guideline on Sunday to tighten oversight over how e-commerce and online platforms charge merchants, as officials ramp up efforts to promote fairer competition and reduce the operational burden on smaller vendors, which form the backbone of the platform economy. The State Administration for Market Regulation released a 28-article…