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SCO helps boost digital progress

The achievements of Shanghai Cooperation Organization member countries in digital infrastructure, collaborative digital industry development and the integration of digital technology with the real economy were highlighted on Thursday in Karamay, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Officials, scholars and business representatives gathered in the city for the two-day 2026 China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Digital Technology…

Fresh foreign capital shows investor confidence

China attracted fresh foreign capital in May despite mounting geopolitical tensions and broad outflows from emerging markets, highlighting investor confidence in the country’s economic resilience and policy support. Chinese equities recorded net inflows of $8.1 billion during the month, while non-resident investors withdrew a net $26.6 billion from emerging market stocks and bonds, according to…

Skyworth Solar mulls global expansion

With the global energy market facing challenges such as unstable supply and surging demand due to the leapfrogging development of artificial intelligence, Skyworth Solar Co Ltd is upgrading itself into an industrial operator providing integrated services of production, synergy, deployment, trading and added value. As part of the company’s five-year strategy unveiled on June 3,…

Nation’s rise seen benefitting world

China is rapidly emerging as an “economic super-connector” that is redrawing the map of global trade and is viewed in the West as challenging its long-standing dominance over the international economic order, said Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow. In an exclusive interview with China Daily, Nair said that for the first…

Foreigners’ shopping lists evolving

Tourists line up for departure tax refunds at Beijing Capital International Airport. CHINA DAILY Chinese-made drones, smartphones, action cameras and designer toys are increasingly replacing tea, porcelain and panda-themed gifts on foreign tourists’ shopping lists in China, as they increasingly seek innovative, higher-value products offering strong value for money, advanced features and models often unavailable…

Humanoid robots enter mass market

A humanoid robot band performs at a high-tech expo in Tianjin on May 28. ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY As leading Chinese humanoid robot makers unveil increasingly affordable models, advances in manufacturing, supply chain localization and growing production volumes are pushing the sector into a new phase of commercial adoption. Unitree Robotics recently launched its dual-arm humanoid…

Humanoid robots enter mass market

A humanoid robot band performs at a high-tech expo in Tianjin on May 28. ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY As leading Chinese humanoid robot makers unveil increasingly affordable models, advances in manufacturing, supply chain localization and growing production volumes are pushing the sector into a new phase of commercial adoption. Unitree Robotics recently launched its dual-arm humanoid…

Humanoid robots move onto fast track

Chinese humanoid robot startups are moving beyond choreographed demonstrations and into factories and retail stores, racing to secure real-world deployments that could eventually scale to tens of thousands of machines. The shift gained further momentum on Tuesday when the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the…