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China’s summer box office reaches almost 12b yuan

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The audience walk past film posters at a cinema in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, Aug 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING — China’s 2025 summer box office reached just over 11.96 billion yuan ($1.68 billion), surpassing last year’s summer total, the China Film Administration (CFA) announced on Monday. More than 100 films spanning a diverse range…

Relentless cycle of price wars eroding profits of automakers

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I spent months immersed in China’s auto industry, and it has been a study in contrasts. On the one hand, the numbers are staggering. China has been the world’s largest car producer and seller for 16 consecutive years. Last year, it overtook Japan to become the top car exporter, cementing its place as a true…

SEP EMBA Electricity Production: driving BRI-related high-quality energy development

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The Hunutlu Power Plant Project in Turkiye is initiated by EMBA Electricity Production, a Turkish subsidiary company of State Power Investment Corporation’s Shanghai Electric Power. CHINA DAILY EMBA Electricity Production, a Turkish subsidiary company of State Power Investment Corporation’s Shanghai Electric Power, also known as SEP, initiated the Hunutlu Power Plant Project in Turkiye in…

Chengdu’s show: where tech meets local flavor

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Visitors take pictures of models displayed at Mercedes-Benz’s booth at the Chengdu Motor Show on Aug 29. CHINA DAILY Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan province, has a way of making the unexpected feel natural: pandas, sizzling hotpot, and high-tech cars all converge as the city’s annual motor show is underway from Aug 29 to Sept…

CNPC’s high-quality development in the UAE

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Dai Houliang (right), chairman of CNPC, meets H.E. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO of ADNOC. Photo provided to CHINA DAILY When the United Arab Emirates became the first Gulf country to establish a strategic partnership with China in 2012, China National Petroleum Corp, or CNPC, and Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, also known as ADNOC,…

Price war hurts car quality in China, J.D. Power finds

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Exported cars gathered at Yantai Port in Shandong province, waiting to be loaded onto the ship on July 10. XINHUA The quality of new gasoline cars in China has dropped for a second straight year as intensifying price competition forces automakers to cut corners, according to a J.D. Power survey released on Thursday. The 2025…

China’s manufacturing sector sustains recovery momentum with rising expectations

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BEIJING — China’s manufacturing sector has sustained recovery momentum as production activity accelerated and market expectations improved, official data showed Sunday. The purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for China’s manufacturing sector stood at 49.4 in August, up from 49.3 in the previous month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). A reading above 50 indicates…

Active lifestyles turn sport into economic boost

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Cyclists at a wetland park in Bozhou, Anhui province, in July. LIU QINLI/FOR CHINA DAILY With favorable policies and an ever increasing number of sports enthusiasts, China’s sports industry is thriving. During a recent news conference, Gao Zhidan, head of the General Administration of Sport, said: “During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), China’s sports industry,…

Industrial producer prices up by 0.4% in the euro area and by 0.6% in the EU

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Learn more about candidate and neighbouring countries

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