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China delivers on 2025 growth target, offering stability in an uncertain world

January 20, 2026 2026-01-20

As the global economy grappled with rising uncertainties, China delivered a steady and resilient performance in 2025. The latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that China's GDP surpassed 140 trillion yuan, expanding 5% year on year — a result that speaks not only to scale, but to resilience.
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China's economy maintained steady momentum in 2025 and hit all major economic and social targets as high-quality development delivered new results, marking the successful conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan period. Here are the key figures and takeaways.
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The Chinese government on Tuesday announced a special guarantee program with a total scale of 500 billion yuan (about 71.42 billion U.S. dollars) to support investment by micro, small and medium-sized private enterprises.
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​China is researching the establishment of a national-level mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fund as part of efforts to optimize the layout of government investment funds and strengthen the guidance over their investment direction.
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​China will formulate and release an implementation plan this year for its strategy to expand domestic demand for the 2026-2030 period, Wang Changlin, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a press conference on Tuesday.
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China's one-year loan prime rate (LPR), a market-based benchmark lending rate, came in at 3 percent Tuesday, unchanged from the previous month.
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​The first cross-Caspian Sea China-Central Asia freight train from north China's Tianjin Municipality to Baku, Azerbaijan, departed on Monday, carrying goods such as stainless steel pipes and household appliances.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday slightly upgraded its global growth forecast for 2026, saying the world economy has remained more resilient than expected despite trade disruptions.
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​Germany will reintroduce subsidies for private consumers purchasing electric vehicles, the environment ministry announced on Monday, reviving incentives that were halted at the end of 2023.
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​The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday revised its estimate of India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the current financial year (April 2025-March 2026) upward to 7.3 percent, from its earlier prediction of 6.6 percent.
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​The Asia-Pacific headquarters project of a joint venture that Huber & Ranner Group has established in China commenced production on Monday in the high-tech zone of Taicang City, east China's Jiangsu Province.
January 20, 2026 2026-01-20
​The European Union (EU) has "tools at our disposal" and "currently nothing is off the table," EU economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on Monday in response to recent U.S. tariff threats related to Greenland.
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​On Dadonghai beach in Sanya, a coastal resort in south China's island province of Hainan, foreign tourists are soaking up the winter sun, including Malika from Moscow who has chosen Sanya as her first travel destination in China.
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​China's retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, climbed 3.7 percent year on year in 2025, official data showed Monday.
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​A report ranking the top 50 Chinese AI companies has shown that enterprises specializing in AI chips emerged as the most notable performers in 2025, taking seven of the top ten spots.
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A month after Hainan FTP launched special customs operations, China International Communications Group (CICG) interviewed Feng Fei, secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee, on Hainan's core strengths, development potential and the opportunities it offers to the world.
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​China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5 percent year on year in 2025, meeting the annual target of around 5 percent, official data showed Monday.
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​China's value-added industrial output expanded 5.9 percent year on year in 2025, official data showed on Monday.
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​People's incomes in China showed sustained growth last year amid a continued economic recovery, official data showed on Monday.
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For years, China's economy has confounded the pessimists. While skeptics have routinely scrutinized every new challenge or external shock as a prelude to inevitable decline, facts on the ground speak for themselves: While not immune to headwinds, the Chinese economy has proved far more resilient than many expected.
January 19, 2026 2026-01-19
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