Premium service with a 'brand promise'

In China's rapidly growing, highly competitive automotive market, where quality vehicle design and production no longer suffice, carmakers are constantly seeking innovative strategies to get ahead of the game.

Short torque

Jaguar unveils nine China variants in its 2012 lineup

New arrival

Dongfeng Peugeot 308

September surprise in sales growth

September vehicle sales in China turned out stronger than expected with volumes up 8 percent year-on-year to 1.6 million units, the second highest this year.

Deals on wheels

Nantong - a national model in so many ways

Jiangsu province's recent program to develop its coastal areas, combined with China's Yangtze River Delta strategy, has benefited a number of places, not least of them the city of Nantong.

An investment hotspot in Nantong

A new science and technology center in Nantong - an industrial city on the Yangtze River Delta in Jiangsu province, 90 kilometers from Shanghai - is focusing on innovative businesses as a way to bring investment and create more jobs.

Science park has a lot to offer businesses

Nantong's new science and technology park now provides a better environment for companies from China and abroad and is a new place for investors to take a look at.

Charity puts a big smile on children's faces

BEIJING - In one of China's most western cities, Kashgar, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, 20 Uygur children aged from six months to 18 years with the disfigurement caused by a cleft lip were given free corrective surgery in July, thanks to the Smile Angels Foundation.

Remote schools get computers and more thanks to HP's gifts

TONGREN, Guizhou - Donating computers to poorly equipped schools in remote mountainous areas is not something new nowadays for enterprises with just a moderate sense of corporate social responsibility. However, some companies choose to go one step further.

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Special train brings sight-saving to poor

BEIJING - Seventeen members of one family in Nanchakaigong, a village in remote Jiuquan, in Northwest China's Gansu province, suffered from genetically inherited cataracts - clouding of the eye's lens resulting in blurred vision.