Even after they vowed to call a truce in their public war of words last year and concentrate on developing better products, two famed Chinese herbal tea makers have again locked horns in a legal battle.
Though Japan was long considered the "robotics kingdom", China surpassed it as the largest market for industrial robots in the world in 2013, when a record-high 36,000 units were sold, Chinese media report.
Many visitors at the recent China International Robot Show in Shanghai were captivated by the machines that could pour water, pick up candy or play chess.
The widely held belief that robots cost jobs is a fallacy, a robotics expert says.
Miniaturization is changing the face of medicine, and a device used to make cellular medicine that has until now needed the space of a small room will soon be sitting on hospital desktops.
Stephen Roach says one of the problems with Sino-US relations is that nobody in the Barack Obama administration fully understands China.
Retired Italian business titan Cesare Romiti, 91, says one of the most memorable highlights of his career was helping to open a factory to produce Fiat vehicles in Nanjing in 1986.
China's economic stability is essential to its development. This stability depends greatly on its central bank, the People's Bank of China, which issues money, monitors the banking system and ensures that the supply and cost of Chinese money are in line with steady economic growth and a sensible exchange rate against the currencies of its main trading partners.
Although he's one of China's best known and most respected neurosurgeons, Zhang Hongqi, who works at the Xuanwu Hospital in Beijing, is a remarkably modest, amiable and patient man.
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