The per capita disposable income of urban residents in China reached 28,844 yuan (US$ 4,518.20) in 2014, up by nine percent year on year. Incomes for residents of Shanghai, Beijing and Zhejiang ...

The Chinese economy has started off in an upbeat note, with most provinces across the country showing a stepped-up recovery trajectory in the first quarter of the year — fueled by robust industrial ...

Several of China’s largest and most influential provinces are targeting gross domestic product growth of at least 5% in 2024 as attention turns to how aggressive Beijing will be with its national ...

A China-Europe freight train loaded with 100 standard containers of goods departs from a railway station in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang Province, on March 31, 2025. Photo: cnsphoto All of China's 31 ...

Each year, China’s government spends billions on foreign propaganda and until recently those efforts were largely driven by departments in the central government and state media. Now, a growing number ...

Many provinces in China including the financial hub of Shanghai have set modest 2024 economic growth targets after missing their previous goals, in a sign that a nationwide recovery to pre-pandemic ...

As deflationary pressures persist across China amid weak domestic demand and knock-on effects from industrial overcapacity, Beijing appears hard-pressed to lower the national inflation-control target ...

Hang Zhou receives funding from TransOceanic Fishers (European Research Council, Grant No. 802223, 2018) and Changing Work at Sea (SSHRC Insight Grant, # 435-2024-1435, 2024) for this research.

A near-decade-long decline in marriages in China might have finally snapped last year, according to data from across the country. Figures from civil affairs bureaus in Hunan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Henan ...