Vehicle quality in China’s internal combustion engine segment is deteriorating, as automakers struggle to balance accelerated electrification, cost pressures, and the rollout of advanced in-car technologies, according to the J.D. Power 2025 China Vehicle Dependability Study. Industry-wide, owners reported 197 problems per 100 vehicles over the past six months, up 7 points from 2024. Premium…
CAI MENG/CHINA DAILY China is stepping up efforts to stimulate household services consumption, seeing the sector not only as a key lever for near-term growth, but also as a long-term strategy to upgrade the economic structure and meet people’s ever-growing need for improved living conditions. Boosting services consumption is about more than just spending. It…
Builders from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group divert a linking section of Hefei-Anqing High-Speed Railway on Oct 24 into Hefei Railway Station in Anhui province by using innovative techniques to better boost the transport of passengers. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Chinese railway builders are intensifying innovations to make the country’s high-speed railways play a…
Swedish truck maker Scania’s establishment of a new global manufacturing facility in China is a “given” to beat its troubled production bottleneck, as the country is “the right place to build heavy duty commercial vehicles of the highest standards”, its top executive said. Christian Levin, president and CEO of Scania, made the remarks during an…
A visitor walks past the China Mobile booth during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February 2024. GAO JING/XINHUA BEIJING — It is not easy to stand out as an innovator in China, a country with more than 5 million patents a year, and earning a gold award in this talent-dense pool is…
Kong Fu’an, executive deputy director of the CBD’s administrative committee, presents Hongqiao’s investment opportunities to a global audience. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District (CBD), a key gateway for China’s global trade and a center for the Yangtze River Delta region, is opening its doors wider to investors and entrepreneurs.…
A visitor tries out a vehicle supported by Harmony OS during a tech expo in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Oct 10. CHINA DAILY Huawei Technologies unveiled HarmonyOS 6, the latest version of its self-developed mobile operating system, on Wednesday, which experts said marks a major step forward for China’s first domestically built smartphone operating system,…
An overseas purchaser interacts with a robot at the Service Robots Zone during the 138th edition of the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Oct 15. ZHENG ERQI/CHINA DAILY GUANGZHOU — A humanoid robot that can pour you a glass of water, a spherical robot that can move and…
China has drastically increased its national targets for wind power installations, aiming for 1.3 terawatts by 2030 and an ambitious 5 TW by 2060, a move hailed by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) as critical for global climate efforts. The “Beijing Declaration on Wind Energy 2.0”, unveiled recently at China Wind Power 2025, sets…
A robot operates equipment on the assembly line of an automaker in Xi’an, Shaanxi province. YUAN JINGZHI/FOR CHINA DAILY China’s gross domestic product grew by 4.8 percent year-on-year in the third quarter following a 5.2 percent rise in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday. In the first three quarters, China’s…