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Tencent Cloud mulls AI-related growth

Participants pose for pictures at an AI holographic photo booth at Tencent’s stand at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 27, 2025. [Photo/VCG] As artificial intelligence approaches a tipping point for industrial growth, Tencent Cloud plans to make its AI-related business a key driver of growth in the coming years, a…

Youth focus lights up Da Ren Tang’s global journey

A pharmacist prepares herbal medicines for patients at the pharmacy of Da Ren Tang Hospital in Hebei district, Tianjin, on Dec 24. ZHAO ZISHUO/XINHUA Hassan Sameh Hassan Elsayed, an international student at Tianjin University, recently shared on social media his first experience at Da Ren Tang’s wellness center, where he tasted herbal tea, inquired about…

Schott AG eyes strong domestic market returns

A visitor takes a photo of exhibits at Schott AG’s booth during a trade fair in Shanghai. CHINA DAILY German tech firm Schott AG is targeting a sharp acceleration in China, pledging to at least double the company’s growth rate in the world’s second-largest economy, with the country leveraging high-tech manufacturing and greater openness to…

Short-swing trading in crosshairs

With a stricter grip over insider trading and short-term speculation through enacting new regulations on short-swing trading, the A-share market will see its transparency and fairness levels further improved, helping to boost investor confidence and attract more long-term capital inflows, experts said. Their comments came after the China Securities Regulatory Commission’s rules on short-swing trading…

China’s CPI up 1% in March

China’s consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 1 percent year-on-year in March, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday. The core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, increased 1.1 percent year-on-year, the data revealed. On a month-on-month basis, CPI fell 0.7 percent in March. Friday’s data also showed…

TCM on verge of expansion, AI main driver

A photo shows the modern, intelligent and digital production workshop of Good Doctor Group in Kunming, Yunnan province. CHINA DAILY At a teaching clinic run by the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture students are testing a new digital assistant designed to analyze needle techniques using artificial intelligence. The application, known as AcuAssistant, uses…

Vibrant consumption growth seen during festival holiday

Tourists enjoy crabapple blossoms as they visit the Wudadao historical urban area in North China’s Tianjin, April 4, 2026. [Photo/Xinhua] China has recorded vibrant consumption growth during the three-day Qingming Festival holiday. The holiday travel boom was boosted by the overlap of the festival and spring breaks for primary and secondary school students in many…

Acwa pumping $30b in China to tap potential in renewables, green hydrogen

Acwa, an energy and water desalination company based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, will step up investments in China over the next five years as it seeks to deepen its presence in renewables, water desalination and green hydrogen, a senior executive said. The company remains confident in China’s medium — and long-term economic prospects despite rising…