Editor's Note: The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China ended in Beijing on Tuesday. In the runup to the meeting, China Daily asked business leaders from major multinational companies for their views on economic developments here and the country's global leadership role.
Alasdair Jelfs is managing director of Merck Holding (China) Ltd, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical conglomerate Merck Group KGaA in Germany.
Chuan Neo Chong is Accenture's senior managing director and chairwoman of Accenture Greater China. Accenture is one of the leading global professional services companies.
China is building a new facility to detect primordial gravitational waves - tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time that were generated during the birth of the universe.
URUMQI - Machines are replacing hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who pick cotton in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the nation's biggest cotton production base.
The sharing business is so common in Shanghai that soon you may not be able to get into a basketball court in Shanghai if you forget your phone.
A court in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, has turned to social media to pressure people who deliberately ignore court judgments and refuse to pay what was ordered.
Doctor Robert McNamara is in charge of emergency medicine at the distinguished Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia.
Item from Oct 23, 1990, in China Daily: Beijing Jeep Corp's newly completed engine plant was officially launched yesterday - and the first locally made engine for the Cherokee Jeep rolled off the production line as soon as the ribbon was cut. Construction of the 135 million yuan engine plant started in 1988, and it can now produce 30,000 engines annually.