Mainland stocks settle flat in run-up to New Year

Mainland stocks were little changed on Thursday, with optimism spurred by fading liquidity stress counterbalanced by investors staying wary of the prospect of regulatory measures to curb aggressive investment in stocks by insurers.

CATL aims to plug into the global market

A dusty village on the outskirts of Ningde, a third-tier city in China's southeast, seems an unlikely place for the headquarters of a potential global leader in future auto motive technology.

Northern Rare Earth eyes medical device prospects

China Northern Rare Earth (Group) High-Tech Co Ltd, one of the six large rare earth companies in China, is aiming to upgrade its processing technologies for medical applications.

WeChat calls beat telecom companies

WeChat has eclipsed telecom carriers to become the new darling for Chinese people to make calls, a study has found.

Kaida's $115m potato plant in output trials

The first phase of Beijing Kaida Hengye Agricultural Technology Development Co Ltd's new and fully automated potato processing plant in Ulanqab, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, will start full-scale output in March, a company official said.

Hong Kong stocks climb most in a month

Hong Kong stocks rose, with the benchmark gauge gaining the most in a month, as banks led a rally by Chinese mainland companies after a technical indicator signaled recent losses were excessive.

Wuhan College in funding first

The Hubei Yidan College Education Development Foundation has finished its first round of funding for Wuhan College, marking the first time that a private college has been able to collect donations from individuals, companies and social groups.

KFC donates to fund helping migrant and left-behind children

KFC China, a unit of Yum China Holdings Inc, donated 3.5 million yuan ($503,887) to the China Children and Teenagers' Fund in late November, which aims to provide care for Chinese migrant children and those who get left-behind in rural villages.

AB InBev brings 'smart drinking culture' to Jiangshan, 5 other cities

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, the world's biggest brewer by sales (2015: $43.6 billion), has included a Chinese city in its six-city global project to reduce consumption of alcohol by 10 percent.

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If US won't pay its teachers, China's tiger moms will

Cindy Mi leans forward on a couch in her sun-filled Beijing office to explain how she first got interested in education. She loved English so much as a child that she spent her lunch money on books and magazines to practice.

Chinese parents mired by hefty costs for tech-focused education

It starts with the idea that children must be trained early to prevail over robots in the workforce. Then it snowballs from there - $3,000 a year for tuition, $350 for a Lego robotics set, and $7,300 to test the newly acquired engineering skills at a competition in the United States.