An aerial drone photo taken on Nov 4, 2024 shows the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), the main venue for the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE), in Shanghai. [Photo/Xinhua] The world’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies have said that the China International Import Expo, which is being held in Shanghai from Nov 5…
Chris Toth, executive vice-president and group president of Kidney Care at Baxter, future CEO of Vantive. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Baxter’s Kidney Care segment, which includes the kidney care and acute therapies businesses, is preparing to become a standalone private company named Vantive. It will be unveiled at the seventh China International Import Expo in…
An Ikea store in Shanghai. [Photo/VCG] Attending the China International Import Expo for the seventh straight year, Swedish home furnishings and housewares retailer Ikea has made the event and Chinese cultural elements the muse of their product development, according to a senior executive. “We’ve been here for seven consecutive years just from the start. It…
Japanese tech company Canon Inc. [Photo/VCG] Japanese tech company Canon Inc will intensify efforts to ramp up its investment in fields covering research and development, production and sales in China under stable circumstances, and launch products and services that meet the diverse and personalized needs of local consumers so as to further tap the immense…
A foreign purchaser plays piano at a toy expo in Shantou, South China’s Guangdong province on Oct 25, 2024. [Photo/VCG] The sound of a piano rang out inside a newly built international exhibition center in Shantou, Guangdong province, as a musician tickled the “ivory” on a piano made of over 110,000 plastic building blocks. The…
Robot soccer players compete during the RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2024 in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province, Oct 26, 2024. More than 200 teams from over 20 countries and regions participated in this competition. [Photo/Xinhua] Visitors were captivated recently by soccer matches played by humanoids in Qingdao, Shandong province. While their movements remained a bit awkward, the…
A view of a property project under construction in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. LONG WEI/FOR CHINA DAILY In October, the total transaction volume of China’s new and secondhand homes experienced their first increase after an eight-month decline, said the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Friday. The nationwide sales volume of new homes rose 0.9…
The 2024 Global Key and Core Technology Conference & The China Robotics Competition opens in Xi’an on Nov 1, 2024. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The 2024 Global Key and Core Technology Conference & The China Robotics Competition concluded in Xi’an on Nov 3, showcasing the city’s pivotal role in converging innovative resources, driving technological advancements,…
China’s upcoming stimulus program may need to be one of greater intensity than the one initiated 10 years ago in order to revive the world’s second-largest economy from a lingering downward spiral of insufficient aggregate demand, said an economist and national political adviser. Zhang Bin, deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute…
Jia Dafeng, deputy general manager and a member of the Leading Party Members Group of Genertec, speaks at the Rehabilitation Discipline Construction Sub-forum on Nov 3 in Beijing. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] As an integral part of new quality productive forces, rehabilitation medicine is playing a significant role in enhancing people’s health, and its concepts,…