People's Daily, China

A super smart factory capable of producing 10,000 industrial humanoid robots annually was put into operation on Saturday in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi.

At the invitation of China's Ministry of Public Security, Serbia's Ministry of Interior has dispatched eight police officers to south China's Hainan Province for a two-week joint patrol mission starting September 11, aimed at safeguarding the travel safety of citizens from both countries and deepening bilateral law enforcement cooperation.

Foreign companies, including those from the United States, are welcome to expand their presence in China and seize the growth opportunities arising from the implementation of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said Thursday, expressing hope that U.S. companies would serve as a bridge between the two countries, tap the potential for bilateral cooperation and help bring more collaborative projects to fruition.
The NDRC, China's top economic planner, made the remarks at a roundtable attended by nearly 100 representatives from the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China), the U.S.-China Business Council and more than 60 U.S. companies operating in China.

China, U.S. holding consultations on 30-bln-USD reciprocal tariff reduction arrangement: commerce ministry

The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) opened Wednesday in Beijing, as China steps up efforts to expand opening-up in services trade at the outset of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030).

Running through Sept. 13, the fair has drawn participants from 90 countries, regions and international organizations, with over 1,800 companies exhibiting on-site.

China has unveiled a plan to improve its investment mechanism for rural revitalization as part of broader efforts to boost agricultural and rural development, the country's agriculture ministry said Monday.
By 2030, the country aims to have basically established a rural revitalization investment mechanism aligned with agricultural and rural development conditions, featuring a well-balanced structure, sound approaches and an emphasis on both efficiency and effectiveness, according to the plan.

China's foreign exchange reserves totaled $3.4383 trillion at the end of August 2026, up by $19.5 billion, or 0.57%, compared to the end of July, which was led by combined effects of currency translation and asset price changes, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said on Monday.

At the ongoing 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Andrea Meza Murillo, deputy executive secretary of UNCCD, spoke highly of China's land restoration feats and touching individual desertification-control stories during a thematic side event.

The 25th round of talks between the special representatives of China and India on the boundary question, which was held on Tuesday in Beijing, achieved an 8-point consensus, according to a press release by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.

Profits of China's industrial firms above designated size increased 17.6 percent year on year during the first seven months of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Thursday.

China and the United States should earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, and remove disruptions and overcome obstacles to high-level exchanges between the two countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday, according to a press release issued by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.

Brand evolution creates new growth model for China’s auto industry

Two numbers, 40.3 percent and 77.4 percent, are the respective market shares of Chinese-brand passenger cars in the domestic market for the full year of 2013 and for July 2026.

Clued-in | Young Americans should realize the enemy is at home

As the US government’s false promises of security and prosperity continue to fall apart, it becomes increasingly harder for America’s ruling class to deflect blame or sow xenophobic, jingoistic fear about China among younger generations of Americans. Taking all of this into account, young Americans must, now more than ever, recognize a fundamental truth: the enemy is not China—the enemy is at home.
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China's Ministry of Commerce on Thursday voiced firm opposition to the U.S. government's consideration of an additional 7.5 percent tariff on Chinese imports, calling the move a typical act of unilateralism and protectionism that politicizes trade issues.

Global perceptions of China are undergoing their most profound structural shift since the end of the Cold War, and China is expected to become the major economy that people around the world most aspire to by 2050, according to a new think tank report released in Beijing on Wednesday.