A fire at a giant Chinese factory making almost one sixth of the world's supply of a key high-tech component shows how vulnerable global manufacturing chains can be to an unexpected event, analysts say.
The operator of KFC in China is rolling out a futuristic system of paying at a fast-food counter via facial recognition, as the country embraces the technology for everything from toilet paper to travel.
Chinese factory activity picked up pace in August as strong foreign demand boosted business confidence, independent data showed Friday, the day after a better-than forecast official reading.
China is gearing up to ban petrol and diesel cars, a move that would boost electric vehicles and shake up the world's biggest car market in a country that is plagued by pollution.
The designer of China's largest home-produced commercial jet expects strong interest from domestic and overseas buyers when it starts taking orders next year, state media reported Wednesday.
China "disappointed" after EU rejects EV exports proposal as talks approach
Wealthy mainland Chinese looking to buy the new iPhone 6 next week could expect to pay an eye-watering US$2,500 for the handsets in Hong Kong, following Apple's decision to delay the launch in China.
China announced Thursday that it would delay until 2019 the enactment of a quota requiring automakers to produce a minimum number of electric cars after some foreign firms and Germany raised concerns.
China's data centres -- the backbone of the country's fast-growing digital economy -- are on track to guzzle more electricity by 2023 than all of Australia last year, said a Greenpeace report published Monday.
Police in Shanghai have arrested five people for making fake iPhones, state media said Friday, just as Apple fans overseas wait with bated breath for the launch of the US giant's newest model.
Leading carmakers boasted at the IAA auto show in Frankfurt on Tuesday about resurgent sales in Europe but said they were keeping a close eye on slowing demand in China.
Shares in China's biggest chipmaker tumbled Monday on reports that the United States had imposed export controls on the company, the latest salvo in the countries' battle for technological dominance.
Chinese regulators have approved the country's first domestically produced large passenger jet, local media said, with Beijing hoping the plane will…
China's auto sales returned to double-digit growth in August, despite the summer being a traditionally slow period, an industry group said Tuesday.
China's auto sales jumped 55.7 percent year on year in August, boosted by Beijing's new subsidies scheme for energy-saving vehicles, state media said Thursday.
Car sales in China fell 2.98 percent in August from a year ago, an industry group said Thursday, as concerns rise over slowing growth in the Chinese economy.
