revenue in the mini-drama industry surged 35 per cent to 50.44 billion yuan (US$6.91 billion) last year, surpassing China’s cinema box office, according to a government-backed industry association.

Tonight will be cloudy and dry to start, but spells of rain will soon move in from the west, this falling as sleet locally. Drier briefly towards the end of the night. A chilly night. Saturday ...

The O3 Mini is expected to be made available to enterprises within a week, broadening its scope beyond individual users. DeepSeek, China’s AI chatbot, has quickly gained traction globally ...

The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government efforts to encourage young people to tie the knot and have babies to halt demographic ...

In a news release on Friday morning, China's National Bureau of Statistics reported its economy grew 5% in 2024 from a year ago, meeting its official target. Analysts polled by Reuters had ...

Venture capitalists and startups convened at the Conrad Beijing hotel in mid-December, looking to exploit the newest phenomenon in Chinese media: the mini soap opera. Unlike traditional TikTok ...

McKinsey & Co. partners have been questioning the consulting giant’s presence in China, worried that doing business there may not be worth the risks given the Asian superpower’s increasingly ...

China’s president has been supplying his “dear friend” Vladimir Putin with advanced technologies and helping to prop up the Russian economy, and he is studying Russia’s ability to ...

Han said Beijing was ready to work with Washington to “implement the important consensus reached between President Xi Jinping and president-elect Trump”, said China’s official news agency ...

Earlier this week, reports emerged that China’s rulers viewed the world’s richest person and Donald Trump’s informal adviser Elon Musk as a suitable buyer of TikTok, which will be banned in ...

China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, which is now ...

Trump’s threat of a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods in retaliation for China’s role in America’s fentanyl crisis could be interpreted in Beijing as encouraging. Not only is it lower than ...