Customers enjoy coffee and their leisure time at a cafe in Baiyanggou village in Urumqi, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, March 15, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] URUMQI — From desert cafes to mountain-view lattes, China’s northwest is driving a coffee transformation, blending local flavors with scenic charm to fuel a thriving “coffee+” economy. Perched on a…
File photo shows the People’s Bank of China in Beijing, capital of China. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – China issued 9.78 trillion yuan ($1.36 trillion) in new yuan-denominated loans in the first three months of 2025, central bank data showed on Sunday. At the end of March, outstanding yuan loans amounted to 265.41 trillion yuan, up 7.4…
BYD’s Denza brand unveils the Z9 GT at the 2025 Milan Design Week in April in Italy. CHINA DAILY China-made new energy vehicles are becoming popular in overseas markets, which is expected to fuel the upward spiral of the country’s vehicle exports. In March, NEV makers operating in the country, including foreign ones such as…
A view of a vacuum chamber and overall installation system in Hefei, Anhui province, in March. ZHOU MU/XINHUA CHENGDU — Armed with cutting-edge fusion energy technologies and bold venture backing, a generation of young Chinese innovators is aiming to shrink the power of the sun into scalable, affordable and investable projects. As artificial intelligence’s insatiable energy…
A drone photo taken on Feb 21, 2025 shows Wenjingkou, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual-fuel-powered, 8,600-Car-Equivalent-Unit (CEU) vehicle carrier vessel, undergoing a sea trial in the East China Sea. [Photo/Xinhua] COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers Co, a unit of State-owned China COSCO Shipping Corp, will add 52 vessels, including car carriers, multipurpose and heavy-lift vessels,…
Children play with a robot dog toy at the 5th China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) in Haikou, South China’s Hainan province, April 13, 2025. The 5th CICPE runs from April 13 to 18 in South China’s island province of Hainan. [Photo/Xinhua] As China’s only national-level exhibition focused on consumer goods, this year’s edition emphasizes…
Audiences enjoy a robot show during the opening ceremony of 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, with the annual theme of “New Quality Productive Forces and Global Science and Technology Cooperation”, in Beijing on March 27. [Photo/Xinhua] Delegates and visitors to the Zhongguancun Forum, a key technology event held in Beijing recently, were in for a…
Onlookers watch a demonstration of the flying module component of XPeng AeroHT’s Land Aircraft Carrier in Haikou, Hainan province, on Jan 21. SU BIKUN/FOR CHINA DAILY The dream of owning a flying car, however wild it may sound, is poised to soon become a reality with a Chinese automaker one of the first in the…
A robot dog performing stunts attracts many young visitors at the 5th China International Consumer Products Expo in Haikou, Hainan province, on Sunday.[LUO YUNFEI/CHINA NEWS SERVICE] China’s super-large consumption market still holds enormous potential and serves as an important engine to drive economic growth, despite the increasing complexity and uncertainty of the external environment. Industry…
Frontier inspection officers at Haikou General Station serve international travelers upon arrival. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Foreign arrivals to China’s tropical island province of Hainan jumped by nearly 60 percent in the first quarter of 2025, driven by expanded visa-free entry policies, authorities said on Friday. More than 289,000 foreign travelers entered or exited Hainan…