The holiday season is here, and for many, toy shopping is a crucial activity on the to-do list. In 2024, the EU was a net importer of toys from the rest of the world, with €7.1 billion worth of toys imported from extra-EU countries (+€0.6 billion compared with 2023), while extra-EU exports amounted to…
BEIJING — China’s animated film box office surpassed 25 billion yuan ($3.54 billion) in 2025, making it the highest-grossing year for animated movies in the country’s history, according to data from online ticketing platforms. Among animated releases this year, “Ne Zha 2” topped the box office chart, followed by “Zootopia 2” and “Nobody,” which ranked…
CHANGSHA — China will begin exporting chilled pork to Singapore for the first time, officials and an exporter in Hunan province in Central China said. The expansion of bilateral food trade comes more than a year after Singapore resumed importing frozen pork from China, following years of import bans imposed in 2018 due to the…
Eurostat is proud to announce the winners of the Multinational Enterprise Data Discovery and Extraction Challenges, part of the European Statistics Awards Programme for Web Intelligence. The 2 challenges ran in parallel and aimed to develop and benchmark new methods for identifying and extracting annual financial data from the web for multinational enterprise (MNE) groups.…
According to the latest data available for October and September 2025, the production of services in the EU grew by 16.4% from February 2020, right before the Covid-10 crisis, and industrial production by 2.3%, while trade (+0.1%) and construction (+0.2%) are at almost the same level as before the pandemic. The EU economy was…
In 2024, 16.9% of people in the EU lived in overcrowded households, a slight decrease from 18.1% in 2014. More than 30% of people in 5 EU countries lived in overcrowded households. Romania reported the highest share (40.7%), followed by Latvia (39.3%), Bulgaria (33.8%), Poland (33.7%) and Croatia (31.7%). In contrast, the lowest overcrowding rates…
SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY Fast-evolving artificial intelligence is poised to play a pivotal role in bolstering industrial upgrades, helping China build new growth drivers and injecting strong momentum into high-quality economic growth, experts and company executives said. The technology’s application across various fields will accelerate in 2026, the first year of the country’s 15th Five-Year Plan…
The EU agri-food trade surplus increased sharply in October 2025, reaching EUR 6.4 billion. This represents an 18% increase compared to September and represents the… Read More »EU agri-food trade surplus reaches highest level in over a year as exports hit a record in October
BEIJING — China released new rules on Saturday to regulate pricing practices of internet platforms, a move aimed at fostering innovation and promoting the sound development of the platform economy. The rules, jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the Cyberspace Administration of China, aim to…
In 2025, EU exports to China are set to be 44% below exports to the UK and more than 10% below exports to Switzerland. Over the past five years, the export gap in the U.S.’s favour has widened by €230bn.On 16 December, China’s Trade Remedy Investigation Bureau issued its final ruling, determining that imports of…