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30 September, 2024

Macau chief executive-elect Sam Hou-fai with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: Xinhua

Hong Kong politics

China’s Xi Jinping to make 3-day visit to Macau from Wednesday

The Chinese president will inaugurate Sam Hou-fai as Macau’s new leader on Friday.

14 Dec 2024 - 10:29PM

China's economic recovery

China’s Politburo revives crisis-era language in pledge to bolster economy

9 Dec 2024 - 6:25PMvideocam

Hong Kong politics

Hong Kong’s John Lee sacks tourism and transport ministers in unexpected move

5 Dec 2024 - 5:45PM

Accidents and disasters in China

6 dead in China after lightning strikes pavilion sheltering visitors from storm

Cities urged to make infrastructure more resilient as more severe weather forecast for the country.

12 Aug 2024 - 3:58PMvideocam

Some 16 people sheltered from a storm in Changzhou in Jiangsu province before the pavilion they were in was struck by lightning and collapsed on Sunday night. Photo: Shutterstock Images

China's economic recovery

China must unblock internal circulation, No 4 official Wang Huning says

Wang Huning says ‘smoothing out domestic circulation’ would lead to advantages for China in terms of international economic cooperation and competition.

9 Jul 2024 - 7:37PM

China’s third plenum

Beijing talks the talk with foreign, private firms ahead of China’s third plenum

High-level comments aim to shore up business and market confidence ahead of the economic-agenda-setting third plenum as foreign firms wait to see whether Beijing follows through.

27 Jun 2024 - 9:17AMvideocam

TikTok

TikTok’s US lawsuit to fight ban cheered on by Chinese state media

Xinhua, China Daily and others ran articles on Wednesday supporting TikTok and ByteDance’s lawsuit against the US government.

8 May 2024 - 6:00PMvideocam

The TikTok office in Culver City, California, on March 13, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Hong Kong transport

10 million vehicles have used Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge since opening: Xinhua

Xinhua reports vehicle flow reached 3.26 million on mega bridge last year, after government-funded Voice of America referred to it as ‘ghost’ crossing in recent article.

28 Apr 2024 - 4:03PM

US-China relations

China-US relations: state media backs Xi Jinping in call for ‘brighter future’

Xinhua’s conciliatory editorial line is in sharp contrast to its accusation just weeks earlier that the US had a ‘friend or foe’ mindset that would lead nowhere.

1 Apr 2024 - 8:51PMvideocam

Hong Kong politics

‘Hong Kong is over’? Scholar defends article; Xinhua slams ‘so-called experts’

State media weighs into wider debate, saying some Western news outlets and ‘so-called experts’ spread false claims to use ‘Hong Kong to contain China’.

27 Feb 2024 - 4:18PM

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Light at the end of a tunnel in Ngau Tau Kok. Economist Stephen Roach says clouds remain on the horizon given problems in mainland China’s economy and the threat of a talent exodus. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Banking & finance

Shanghai fails to achieve 5.5% economic growth target for 2023

The city’s GDP expanded 5 per cent last year as the global economy turned out to be weaker than expected, Mayor Gong Zheng told an annual session of the Shanghai People’s Congress on Tuesday.

23 Jan 2024 - 4:12PMvideocam

The Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai’s financial district. The city attracted US$24 billion in foreign funds in 2023, rewriting a previous record set a year earlier, Gong says. Photo: EPA-EFE

Earthquakes

Magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes remote western China, state media reports

Tremors were felt across the Xinjiang region and as far away as the neighbouring countries Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

23 Jan 2024 - 9:57AM

China economy

Caught in a tram: Chinese city’s ‘white elephant’ project named and shamed

A city in China’s northwest has been thrust into the spotlight for a light rail project that has seen delays, environmental criticism and cost overruns amid a campaign to curb excessive spending.

16 Jan 2024 - 9:00PMvideocam

Electric & new energy vehicles

Tesla secures site in Shanghai to build its Megapack battery factory

The US carmaker will produce 10,000 massive batteries a year at the Megafactory in Shanghai’s Lingang free-trade zone when construction of the plant is complete.

22 Dec 2023 - 5:00PMvideocam

It will be Tesla’s first manufacturing facility for energy-storage batteries outside the US. Photo: SCMP Handout

Banking & finance

China’s cabinet urges Shanghai Lingang free-trade zone to deepen reforms

The State Council, China’s cabinet, has urged Shanghai to further simplify customs procedures and liberalise financial markets to spur cross-border cargo and capital flows in the Lingang free-trade zone.

7 Dec 2023 - 9:00PM

The Lingang free trade zone in Shanghai. The zone will be developed into a ‘demonstration area to promote the nation’s economic reforms’, the State Council’s guide says. Photo: Xinhua

China's economic recovery

In rare move, state report shows overstaffing in one of China’s poorest regions

Expansion of part-time workers weighs heavily on county’s already-strained fiscal budget at a time when local-level debt has become a major concern across the country.

2 Dec 2023 - 11:44AM

China’s Communist Party

Li Keqiang’s sudden death ‘a total surprise’ to China’s top leaders

‘State media obviously did not prepare full obituary’ as they do for very ill leaders, while brief initial announcement aimed to quash conspiracy theories, observer says.

28 Oct 2023 - 8:11AMvideocam

China's economic recovery

Beijing tells China’s poor that help is coming via wider social security net

China’s State Council also puts the onus on local governments to bolster support for those most in need, including the poor and elderly, while also vowing to keep them warm this winter.

11 Oct 2023 - 8:00PMvideocam

China’s State Council says more must be done to ensure that people, particularly in poorer rural regions, stay warm this winter. Photo: AFP

China trade

China’s Xi Jinping appeals to decades-old mantra of reform, eyeing economic jolt

The president addresses some oft-mentioned gripes among the international community, acknowledging that China must do more to open up to the rest of the world.

27 Sep 2023 - 8:37PM

China's economic recovery

Premier Li eyes ‘combination of punches’ at critical economic juncture

At a symposium with experts, Chinese Premier Li Qiang reiterates Beijing’s determination to shore up the nation’s economy with effective policies.

7 Jul 2023 - 7:32PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Baidu’s Ernie Bot tops Xinhua’s Chinese large language model rankings

Ernie Bot performs better in a series of tasks than competing services from Alibaba, iFlyTek and SenseTime, according to Xinhua Institute.

12 Jun 2023 - 7:00PMvideocam

The logos of Ernie Bot and Baidu are seen in this arranged photograph. Photo: Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence

China to embrace AI advances but also control risks as ChatGPT wave spreads

Politburo recently concluded that China must ‘pay attention to the development of AGI’ but also ‘take risk prevention into account’.

29 Apr 2023 - 10:00AM

Beijing is treading carefully on regulation of ChatGPT-like services. Photo: Shutterstock

Two Sessions 2023

How does China pick top officials? Beijing mouthpiece sheds new light

The criteria include being 68 or younger and having more than five years of experience in ministerial or provincial leadership roles, according to state media in rare disclosure about nomination and promotion rules.

15 Mar 2023 - 10:05AMvideocam

China’s 20th Party Congress

Xinhua chief vows to toe party line to pave way for party congress

Fu Hua says ‘primary political task’ is to propagate Xi Jinping’s political thoughts and party control of the internet.

6 Sep 2022 - 7:19PMvideocam

China’s 20th Party Congress

China Briefing | History hints at how China will select its next leaders at 20th party congress

China’s new leadership line-up could be finalised by the end of September, if officials follow a similar timetable to the last congress. But don’t expect any straw polls – or to find out who made the cut until the final day.

5 Sep 2022 - 9:44AM

Chinese President Xi Jinping claps while addressing the media as he introduced new members of the Politburo Standing Committee on the final day of the 19th party congress at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People in 2017. Photo: AP

US-China tech war

President Xi Jinping’s visit to a laser equipment maker signals tech focus

Xi visited Wuhan Huagong Laser Engineering’s manufacturing lines for laser cutting equipment, used in the semiconductor, consumer electronics and autos industries.

1 Jul 2022 - 12:44AM

Chinese president Xi Jinping visited Wuhan this week. Photo: Reuters

China GDP

‘Worsening’ economic slowdown to limit China’s growth as headwinds build

The International Monetary Fund has cut China’s economic growth forecast from 4.8 per cent to 4.4 per cent, amid intense efforts by state media to play down concerns about the country’s slowing growth outlook.

20 Apr 2022 - 9:03AMvideocam

NFTs

Chinese broadcaster Shandong Television plots NFT, metaverse, blockchain initiatives

The provincial broadcaster’s foray into NFTs comes months after state-owned Xinhua announced the country’s first ‘news digital collectibles’.

5 Apr 2022 - 7:30PMvideocam

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