Hisense phone targets e-book lovers

Chinese home appliance manufacturer Hisense Group launched its first dual-screen smartphone A2, aimed at young consumers and e-book enthusiasts.

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Bankers see growth slowing, innovation rising

Chinese bankers forecast the nation's economic growth will be slower in the next three years. Technological innovation will be their new focus, according to a report co-released by the China Banking Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers on Friday.

China overtakes US as Germany's top trade partner

China overtook the United States and France as Germany's most important trading partner in 2016, data from the Germany's Federal Statistics Office showed on Friday.

Body mulls grids to link continents

An Asia-based group of entrepreneurs aims to build a transcontinental supergrid that links the continents by 2050.

CIRC cracks the whip on Foresea Life

Illegal action results in heavy penalties, severe ban on chairman

Courier company listing ushers in new era

China's courier industry is expected to enter a new stage in its development with the listing of SF Express, China's largest courier, according to analysts.

Baidu hitches its 2017 rebound hopes to AI

Baidu Inc, the Chinese internet search leader, said it is expecting a sales rebound in the first quarter of 2017 on the back of new revenue drivers like artificial intelligence, after a web advertising scandal last year crushed quarterly earnings twice in a row.

Precision efforts now key to lifting people out of poverty

China is in a critical stage as it strives to eradicate extreme poverty by 2020, as part of the central government's goal to build an all-round well-off society in which no one is left behind.

Cross-regional lawsuit test

The procuratorate of Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, recently filed a lawsuit in the city's intermediate people's court demanding compensation from the authorities of Yangpu district, Shanghai, for dumping the district's household garbage in Wuxi.

Tsinghua has to find better ways to attract international students

THE COUNTRY'S PRESTIGIOUS TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY has come under fire for its 2017 international undergraduate admission requirements, which many have criticized as being "preferential" because they only require foreign applicants under the age of 25 to have a high-school diploma and pass the Level 5 of the HSK language test. Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, commented on Wednesday:

Academicians should not get to hog resources

ON SATURDAY, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that Chen Ning Yang, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics, and Yao Qizhi, recipient of the 2000 Turing Award, have been admitted as academicians as they have renounced their US citizenships and are now Chinese citizens. China Youth Daily comments: