The transition to robotaxi services comes at a time when China is in a race to lead the world in the adoption of autonomous vehicle and artificial intelligence technologies.

The environment inside a highly automated plant appears a far cry from the days when mainland Chinese factories were known as ‘labour-intensive’ sweatshops.

The third plenum of the 20th Central Committee offers a chance for Chinese authorities to address the country’s population problem using a ‘top down’ approach.

OpenAI has fired a warning shot by blocking developers from mainland China and Hong Kong, showing the new reality of an increasingly divided world in AI.

While American investors helped build China’s most successful internet companies, they now find themselves quickly losing relevance in the country.

At first glance, the odds are not in favour of Chinese tech firms in the era of generative AI, but the country has the talent, the market, and the determination to stay at the top of the game.

Established by a Chinese University of Hong Kong professor in 2019, SmartMore has been tasked with boosting the city’s technology ecosystem.

Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin used third plenary sessions to usher in new eras of growth. Beijing should do it again.

Alibaba.com is projecting US$60 billion in GMV this year, according to the sourcing platform’s president, who dismissed competition from PDD and ByteDance.

Apple and Tesla have each won two small but significant consumer-led lawsuits in China, in a sign that Beijing is trying to win back the confidence of foreign investors.

The authorities decided that the best way to deal with a prominent statue of a famous peasant leader was not to destroy it, but move it to a less noticeable place.

The rapid development of AI has offered hope to ease some of the problems caused by China’s demographic crisis, but Beijing should think carefully before rushing to any one-sided conclusions.

Chinese cities are rushing to dismantle a long-standing housing policy regime designed to keep speculators at bay, a remarkable U-turn that is just the beginning of a new chapter in the nation’s real estate market.

The rural town of Lishui is allowing individuals to participate in a land auction in an experiment that, if successful, could be a model for other cities over time.

The trick of piecing together two or three ‘golden weeks’ on a yearly calendar should not replace initiatives such as promoting wage growth, reducing taxes on households and enhancing social welfare coverage.

China officially connected to the internet in April 1994. Today, its online influence is stronger than ever.

The flow of domestic migrants is increasingly moving in the direction of the Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta and a handful of local economic hubs.

Beijing sees US criticism of overcapacity as an excuse for Washington to ratchet up protectionist measures against Chinese-made products.

Beijing-based ByteDance has left the US TikTok team lead its own response in countering legislation that would kick it out of domestic app stores, sources say.

Chna’s youth are facing the ‘four curses’ and only more economic liberlaisation can banish this threat to the country’s future.

Alibaba has scrapped the planned Hong Kong IPO for its logistics unit Cainiao, deciding to double down on its investment in the strategically important unit.

The fallout from the accounting fraud at China Evergrande will not be limited, and the handling of the case is just a piece of the puzzle showing how China manages its property slowdown.

Without Hong Kong’s thriving entertainment industry and open culture, the genius and creativity of the literary giant and his martial arts epics would have no chance to shine.

The much-anticipated press conference at the close of the National People’s Congress was cancelled, discontinuing a customary practice that was established in the early 1990s.

The concept of ‘new productive forces’ shows that China’s top leadership has realised that the traditional model of relying on debt-fuelled investment to drive growth has reached its limit.

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming and other key voices at the company view AI as a battle that it cannot afford to lose, one source says.

Foreigners having trouble making mobile payments in China is just a trivial issue when it comes to the cost of its walled internet.

Twenty-seven years have passed since the death of China’s reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, but it seems that today there are different interpretations of his legacy – a worrying and disappointing development.

ByteDance founder reportedly asked village in Fujian province to remove the commemorative stone tablet amid online speculation.