Major music platforms in rights tussle over Jay Chou's pop songs

Centering around pop singer Jay Chou's songs, a copyright dispute between two Chinese music platforms QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music has hit the headlines in Chinese media.

District riding a wave of innovation to boost trade with Japan

Innovation is a major impetus to activating emerging industries toward higher-level development in international trade cooperation, especially between China and Japan, officials and business insiders said.

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Country embracing guest of honor role

France, one of the "guest of honor" countries at the second China International Import Expo, is bringing some of its best high-end products to China in hope of consolidating its long-term cooperative relations with the country.

Chinese investment boosts French BRI hub

Inspired by a long tradition of friendship and economic cooperation with China, Marseille-Provence in France has emerged as one of Europe's biggest supporters of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Nation's beef imports to China moving ahead

French beef looks set to return to Chinese dinner tables after 17 years in the wilderness, as China's beef import market looks to further open up, according to Chinese media reports.

Powering forward to tackle climate change

In September, China General Nuclear Power released a report on sustainable development in Paris.

Sino-French relations to feature in documentary

Confucianism has been the guiding principle of the daily lives of people in China for thousands of years. Many centuries later, Confucian philosophy began to appear in books across Europe, marking a period of discovery and advancement in East-West relations.

More Chinese toasting champagne

Fan Yibo, a 45-year-old travel blogger from Beijing, just fizzes with excitement about champagne. He fell in love with the iconic French tipple on a visit to the country's Champagne region in 2010 and hasn't looked back since, ordering it on flights and in restaurants wherever he goes.

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Bilateral bonds surge as tourists from China get French connection

The closer cultural ties and tangible results of the development of the Belt and Road Initiative will generate a new forward momentum in the fields of people-to-people exchanges and two-way investment between China and France, according to experts and government officials.

Nexans' cables pull ahead in the Chinese market

Julien Hueber, executive vice-president of the Industry Solutions and Projects business group and the Asia-Pacific region at Nexans shared his insights into the company's growth in China.