Over the years, several Chinese cities and regions have emerged as strategic pillars underpinning the country’s drive to become a global intellectual property powerhouse. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou innovation cluster topped the Global Innovation Index 2025 top 100 innovation cluster ranking published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, with Beijing ranking fourth and the Shanghai-Suzhou cluster sixth.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
The quality of China's invention patents improved during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025). By the end of 2025, the Chinese mainland (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) had 2.29 million high-value invention patents, accounting for 43.1% of its total valid invention patents, up 2.9 percentage points from the end of 2020, the country's intellectual property regulator announced at a Friday press conference.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
INDIGO shopping mall in Beijing launched its Spring Festival-themed event yesterday to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Horse.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
The China Expo Forum for International Cooperation 2026 opened in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, on Wednesday, bringing together exhibition institutions, business leaders and industry experts from more than 20 countries and regions to discuss the future of the global exhibition industry.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
COMEX March silver futures rose sharply to a new all-time peak of 95.885 U.S. dollars per ounce on Thursday, while February gold futures went up near this week's record high.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
U.S. real GDP grew at an annualized rate of 4.4 percent in the third quarter of 2025, marking a slight upward revision from the previous estimate of 4.3 percent, according to a final reading released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
China has emerged as an essential actor in the global sustainability transition and is poised to play an important role in the next phase of sustainable development, according to Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
The New Development Bank (NDB) signed a loan agreement with Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank (SHRCB) for the Greener Shanghai Project on Thursday, providing the equivalent of 100 million U.S. dollars in five-year RMB funding to support the city's sustainable development projects.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
China's Ministry of Commerce and eight other government departments on Thursday issued the country's first policy document specifically targeting the pharmaceutical retail sector, aiming to transform pharmacies into comprehensive "health stations" that serve public health needs in an improved manner.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
Beijing plans to accumulate a total computing capacity of approximately 200,000 petaflops by 2027, as part of the city's efforts to support the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital industries.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
The People's Bank of China announced on Thursday that it will conduct a 900-billion-yuan (about 128.54 billion U.S. dollars), one-year medium-term lending facility (MLF) operation on Friday, aiming to maintain ample liquidity in the country's banking system.
January 23, 2026
2026-01-23
China's government-backed consumer goods trade-in programs benefited 366
million purchases in 2025, boosting product sales worth a total of 2.61
trillion yuan (about 373 billion U.S. dollars) in value, government data shows.
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
Chinese enterprises' outbound investment maintained healthy, steady and
orderly growth in 2025, driven by high-quality cooperation under the
Belt and Road Initiative, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) will continue to implement a
moderately loose monetary policy in 2026, and will utilize tools such as
reserve requirement ratio (RRR) cuts and interest rate reductions to
ensure liquidity remains sufficient, according to central bank governor
Pan Gongsheng.
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
Three key engines of Hong Kong's economic growth -- finance, trade and
sci-tech innovation -- will keep humming in the future, said Paul Chan,
financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
government.
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
A Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesperson on Thursday welcomed
Canada's new trade arrangements for electric vehicles (EVs) exported
from China, calling them "a positive step in the right direction."
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
China firmly opposes the European Union (EU)'s move to list some Chinese
enterprises as so-called "high-risk suppliers," the Ministry of
Commerce said on Thursday.
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
Since the launch of Hainan's special customs operations, the duty-free consumer market in Sanya has been heating up, demonstrating robust growth momentum and vibrant market vitality.
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
Beijing's landmark Sanlitun shopping district has unveiled a revamped retail lineup highlighted by new luxury flagships, demonstrating its developer's confidence in the resilience and long-term potential of China's consumer market.
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
China has allocated 93.6 billion yuan (about 13.37 billion U.S. dollars) in ultra-long special treasury bonds to fund equipment renewal projects across key sectors, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said Thursday.
January 22, 2026
2026-01-22
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