Visitors film a fireworks show enhanced by visual and lighting technologies in Liuyang, Hunan province, on July 12. CHEN SIHAN/XINHUA BEIJING — At a bustling appliance store near Shanghai’s Zhongshan Park, sales staff enthusiastically demonstrated product features and calculated discounts. The summer shopping season has been in full swing. A local resident surnamed Yao was looking…
FAW-Audi’s Q6L e-tron and A5L are launched in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Aug 7, 2025. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] FAW-Audi is set to blaze a trail in China’s ultra-competitive luxury NEV market with its strategy of combining its century-old German engineering excellence with cutting-edge Chinese technological innovation. The strategy is well illustrated at the company’s…
Consumers wait for coffee at a Luckin Coffee store in Shanghai on May 31. CHINA DAILY Starbucks Corp posted solid third-quarter results in China, with revenue and same-store sales rising year-on-year and operating margin recording quarterly improvement, even as local rival Luckin Coffee Inc continues to expand at a breakneck speed. Starbucks’ revenue in China…
Visitors interact with a robot dog at the 2025 World AI Conference (WAIC) in East China’s Shanghai, July 29, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] In a brightly lit lab in Beijing’s Zhongguancun, also known as China’s Silicon Valley, a humanoid robot stands amid rows of shelves stocked with a variety of goods, its sleek, metallic frame moving with…
Unitree humanoid robots take to the ring at the World Robot Conference in Beijing. ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY China’s Unitree Robotics is cutting prices of its latest humanoid robot models as it pushes toward commercialization, with founder and CEO Wang Xingxing predicting that one day the government could tax robots the way they tax human workers.…
A robot is pictured at the 8th Digital China Summit in Fuzhou, Southeast China’s Fujian province, April 29, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] China will intensify efforts to accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure and deepen reforms to the market-oriented allocation of data elements, as part of a broader push to develop new quality productive forces and advance…
People visit the sales office of a commercial housing complex outside Beijing’s Fifth Ring Road on Saturday. JIA TIANYONG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE Recent policy adjustments in major Chinese cities are fueling expectations that more policy fine-tuning and easing measures are likely in the coming months to support the real estate sector’s steady recovery, experts said on…
Internet search interest among Chinese tourists for travel to South Korea has surged following Seoul’s decision to grant a temporary visa waiver for Chinese group visitors starting on Sept 29, and more domestic travel agencies are developing group tour packages to the country. The waiver will be effective through June 30, 2026. Within half an…
This photo taken on July 22, 2025 shows a tourist playing a “super giant swing” in a giant sinkhole in Kaiyang county, Southwest China’s Guizhou province. GUIYANG – Karst landscapes, typical in Southwest China’s Guizhou province, have emerged as a magnet for adventurers and outdoor sports enthusiasts this summer, drawing crowds with their unique geological…
Companies under the jurisdiction of Zhanjiang Customs in South China’s Guangdong province have sold lychee to Belarus and Qatar for the first time this year, indicating the city’s lychee market has further diversified, according to a statement released by Zhanjiang Customs. The statement said that Zhanjiang Customs had supervised more than 7,070.6 metric tons of…