Chinese universities are discovering that school logo and team-related apparel, in this case, winter outerwear, is becoming hot on campuses, especially as temperatures plummet. Renmin University of China has seen brisk online sales of its newly launched branded down jackets this week. The jackets, marketed under the university’s cultural intellectual property center Renda Hongchuang, were…
A drone photo taken on Nov 1, 2025 shows a view of Shenzhen Bay Culture Square in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong province. [Photo/Xinhua] China’s key economic meeting put “demand-led growth and building a strong domestic market” at the top of next year’s agenda, and it also called for “reasonable” growth and a solid start to…
Zeeshan Qasim Khan, a Pakistani entrepreneur, takes photos of a board listing an array of official social media accounts of the Hainan Free Trade Port International Services portal at its launch event on Monday in Haikou, Hainan province. Fu Shihong / For China Daily The Hainan Free Trade Port launched an international services portal on…
Small and medium-sized enterprises are increasingly becoming a key driver of trade growth between China and Russia, experts said on Friday at a forum held in Nanchang, capital of East China’s Jiangxi province. The 12th China-Russia SME Cooperation Roundtable brought together more than 120 companies from both countries to explore new business opportunities. The event…
China’s economy outperformed expectations over the year, with growth momentum broadening and key risks easing, a senior official said on Saturday. Speaking at the China Economic Annual Conference in Beijing, Han Wenxiu, executive deputy director of the Office of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, said major economic indicators beat forecasts, employment remained…
China will strive to keep economic growth stable next year while maintaining overall stability in employment, prices and the balance of payments, a senior official said on Saturday. Han Wenxiu, executive deputy director of the Office of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, said economic policy in 2026 will aim to keep income…
Data collected in 2024 show that 14.2% of people aged 15-34 in the EU left formal education or training at least once during their lifetime. The highest dropout rates were registered in the Netherlands (32.2%), Denmark (27.1%), Luxembourg (24.8%) and Estonia (24.4%). On the other hand, the lowest were recorded in Romania (1.5%), Greece (2.2%)…
The Global Developer Pioneers Summit 2025 and the International Embodied Intelligence Competition opened in Shanghai on Dec 13. This competition is a full-scenario demonstration of embodied intelligence including industrial production to social services, home assistants, emergency rescue, medical care and artistic performance. It features six major thematic tracks and eight scenario-based challenges, covering 19 specialized…
In 2024, primary energy consumption in the EU reached 1 202 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe), a 0.8% decrease compared with 2023. Data show that in 2024, the EU continued moving closer to the 2030 target of 992.5 Mtoe, with the gap narrowing to 21.1%. Final energy consumption reached 900 Mtoe in 2024, a…
In 2024, flows of money sent by EU resident households to non-EU resident households, referred to as personal transfers, amounted to €52.1 billion, an increase of 6% compared with 2023 (€49.2 billion). Inflows of personal transfers to EU resident households totalled €14.8 billion, up by 7% compared with 2023 (€13.8 billion). In the last 5…