Walmart energizes women-led businesses

By the end of 2016, the Walmart Foundation and Walmart China are expected to donate more than 91 million yuan ($14.2 million) to the Women's Economic Empowerment program.

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Glimpses of economy over next 5 years

Editor's note: The Fifth Plenum, a key meeting of the Communist Party of China, was held last month. At the meeting, top Chinese leaders reviewed and deliberated on the draft of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), which will lay out the blueprint of the country's social and economic development over the next five years. The plan highlights innovation, green growth and reform of State-owned enterprises as some of the country's development priorities. China Daily invited a group of chief executives from leading multinational companies to provide their insights into the plan.

Equities rise to 11-week high on stability hopes

Resumption of initial public offerings helps deflect gloom over weak data, trade prospects

Bohai to bring Avolon under its fold

Bohai Leasing Co Ltd, a subsidiary of aviation and shipping conglomerate HNA Group, is set to bring Avolon Holdings Ltd under its umbrella after announcing definitive plans to buy the Irish aircraft leasing company for about $2.5 billion.

Yiwu wraps up market in ePackets

City becomes the center of EUBs business for companies in Brazil

Trade between China and Russia expands in digital age

E-commerce has boosted cross-border trade between China and Russia.

E-commerce boosts earnings for farmers

Huo Liang earns about 1,000 yuan ($158) a month running an online shop to sell millet, a humble but nutritious food popular among Chinese customers.

Investors banking on key data

CPI figures as well as inflation numbers and corporate borrowing will be scrutinized

Hedge fund celebrity probe creates a stir LI XIANG

The cult of celebrity in China's hedge fund industry appears to be losing its magic after news broke that a high-profile manager was being investigated for insider trading and market manipulation.

Giving babies a chance at life

The Little Flower project aims to care for orphans

When ignorance and silence are art itself

I was inching slowly forward in a queue at the Palace Museum, the Forbidden City, in Beijing last weekend. Awaiting inspection was a scroll painting from the Song Dynasty (960-1279). The couple next to me began musing about the figures in the painting.