Shanghai is not alone in such efforts, as Nansha district in Guangzhou is implementing cross-border data transfers with Hong Kong and Macau Shanghai is exploring the possibility of allowing businesses in certain areas to bypass the country's Great Firewall and access internet sites overseas,

China announced plans on Thursday to channel hundreds of billions of yuan of investment from state-owned insurers into shares as part of the government's latest efforts to support a struggling stock market.

The Chinese government is trying to encourage people to spend more by ensuring that share prices will rise, ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stock markets.

China’s biggest economic powerhouse seeks to become a ‘global innovation hub’ by developing treatments for blindness and paralysis.

China is set to grant foreign financial institutions the same treatment as domestic ones in offering innovative financial services within some free trade zones. This move, announced by the central bank,

Beijing and Shanghai have recently attained unprecedented levels of investment and development in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. These two cities are propelling China's swift ascent in the global AI competition.

A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death.

Pop quiz: how many British airlines fly to the world’s second largest economy and how many cities in that country do these airlines serve? Don’t be embarrassed if you guessed two – British Airways and Virgin Atlantic – and,

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will grant foreign financial institutions the same treatment as domestic ones in offering new types of financial services not yet available in the country in some free trade zones, the central bank said on Wednesday.

The Chinese Professional Football League (CFL), an independent federation aimed at operating all levels of China's professional football leagues

Chinese platforms have pledged to crack down on hate, but anti-foreigner sentiment still circulates widely online.

The writer, cook and Chinese-food champion gets ready to greet the Year of the Snake. Plus, FT correspondents reveal how their cities will mark the occasion