China's economic growth beat market expectations in the first two months, an indication that the world's second-largest economy is expanding steadily and can achieve its preset growth target of about 6.5 percent, analysts said.
Amid mounting fears over the specter of escalating trade tensions haunting the global economy, China's role as a visionary leader of open and free trade is taking on a new significance, an expert said.
Chinese companies should play a bigger role in global steel production and trade, rather than just export basic products, and utilize the Belt and Road Initiative for expanding reach, a top industry official said.
China's plan to launch crude oil futures on March 26 will enable it to develop its own benchmark for oil pricing in addition to current global benchmarks, said Jonty Rushforth, senior director of the energy price group at S&P Global Platts, an energy industry information service provider.
Ant Financial Services Group is making a foray into Pakistan through a deal that will give the financial technology giant a 45 percent stake in a local mobile financial services provider.
For Chen Hua, 28, an automobile engineer in Shanghai, reading out English text aloud after taking pronunciation lessons on a mobile app has become an evening routine.
In Central China's Henan province, a group of veteran teachers with an average teaching experience of more than 17 years were participating in a "special contest" with an artificial intelligence-enabled machine.
Chinese parents prefer that their children receive music education mainly for a couple of reasons: music could make for a decent career and increase their chances of hitting the big time; if not, music qualification can add weight to their applications for a place in coveted universities.
Chinese delivery giant SF Holding announced on Tuesday evening that its net profit in 2017 rose 14.12 percent, representing a slowdown in growth as the nation's overall delivery industry is going through a transition period.
The country's second-largest e-commerce site JD will ramp up efforts to establish logistics facilities in impoverished areas and build brands for local agricultural products, said its chairman and CEO Liu Qiangdong.
Selling 2,000 metric tons of dates and receiving about 700,000 orders within just three months is not an easy task for farmers living in Lin county of Shanxi province, a poverty-stricken area some eight hours by car from Beijing.
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