2025 starts with an EV dispute, but it ends with something broader: EU China ties begin to look less like trade management and more like security first.The EV tariff dispute has stopped being a single trade case. It has become the organising principle of EU–China economic relations. The timing matters. Europe is already living with…
In 2025, China reported a record goods trade surplus of nearly $1.2 trillion. As a back-of-the-envelope comparison, that net export flow is roughly equal to about 1% of the rest of the world’s GDP.China’s goods trade surplus in the Xi years 2013–2025Xi Jinping took power in late 2012. When domestic demand is soft and the…
China is to draft new national standards covering meals prepared in the catering sector, the State Council’s Food Safety Commission Office and the State Administration for Market Regulation announced on Thursday. Regulators have also prepared a separate parallel notice aimed at increasing transparency in the catering sector. Co-drafted with the market regulator and the Ministry…
The latest phase of CanSemi Technology Inc’s project in Guangzhou Development District was launched on Thursday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] CanSemi Technology Inc launched the latest stage of its project to expand the integrated circuit sector in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou on Thursday. Phase IV of the project in the city’s Development District…
China is willing to work with Finland to deepen cooperation in areas including the green transition, information technology and the digital economy, a Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said on Thursday, following confirmation of Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s upcoming visit to China. At the invitation of Premier Li Qiang, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo will…
By Fang Aiqing and Mao Weihua in Urumqi | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2026-01-23 21:25 Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region recorded robust foreign trade growth in 2025, with total import and export value hitting a record 520.4 billion yuan ($74.7 billion), a year-on-year increase of 19.9 percent — the highest growth rate in China, according to Urumqi…
China issued a record 2.947 billion green electricity certificates (GECs) in 2025, according to data released by the National Energy Administration (NEA) on Thursday, as the country accelerates its transition toward a market-based renewable energy system. Of the total certificates issued for the full year, 1.893 billion were classified as tradable units. Each certificate represents…
Wu Tian, vice-president of Baidu and deputy director of the National Engineering Research Center of Deep Learning Technology and Application, launches the latest version of the Wenxin AI chatbot. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Chinese tech giant Baidu released the latest version of its native artificial intelligence chatbot, Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan) 5.0, on Thursday. According…
Amid the deep integration of artificial intelligence, China’s intelligent driving industry maintained steady growth in 2025, with leading suppliers making faster progress in commercialization and competition across the sector intensifying. According to a white paper recently released by the China Automotive New Supply Chain Research Institute, Momenta, DeepRoute.ai and Huawei HI ranked as the top…
AI-driven integration with advanced manufacturing is becoming the decisive force in the transformation of China’s manufacturing powerhouse, as intelligent technologies increasingly reshape factory floors and industrial systems nationwide, industry officials and experts have said. Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have made the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and intelligent technologies not only inevitable but essential,…