In Chengdu, youth fight burnout with "night schools" and forest blind walks, then escape into the Metaverse and luxury ...

Welcome to Changsha. From a booming multi-billion dollar "vertical drama" industry to Tang Dynasty theme parks and midnight ...

By some measures, China's economy is looking resilient, with strong exports and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.

In recent weeks, Western audiences encountered two starkly different portraits of China’s economic model. In his book “Breakneck,” tech analyst Dan Wang argues that China is an “engineering state” ...

China has just crossed a threshold no other major economy has reached, turning a year of global uncertainty into a historic windfall. Its trade surplus has surged past one trillion dollars even as ...

While the economy remained stable in the first half of 2025, internal pressures like stagnant consumption, falling property prices, and a low consumption-to-GDP ratio persist. China’s economic growth ...

China’s economy is at a transformational moment. For more than two decades, a growth model centered on the debt-fueled construction of housing and infrastructure propelled the country’s rapid ...

While China has long been touted as the next great economic superpower, its recent trajectory reveals a far different story. Despite the U.S. running its fiscal imbalances and maintaining high levels ...

We asked people in 25 nations whether they think the U.S., China, Japan or the European Union is the world’s leading economic power. We also asked with which country – the U.S. or China – they see as ...

China is gripped by an insidious problem that is eroding its economy: It is trapped in a cycle of competition so fierce that it is destroying profits, driving a brutal rat race among workers and ...