Travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic have helped boost China’s snow sport economy ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Many are hoping the high-profile sporting event will take involvement a step further.

A sweeping crackdown on Chinese celebrity and fan culture, which the government accused of causing ‘chaos’, has drastically changed the country’s multibillion-dollar fan industry.

Long-held perceptions that blue-collar work is inferior and for people with a poor education partly explains labour shortages in the manufacturing sector, educators and business owners say.

Taiwanese official says that US sanctions have led to a significant increase in mainland demand for Taiwan’s chips, and that strong demand will continue until the mainland’s chip technology is upgraded.

The number of duty-free shoppers to Hainan increased by 73 per cent year on year in 2021, amid suggestions the island’s booming duty-free sector is growing at the expense of Hong Kong.

The China Health Insurance Fund, which covers 96.8 per cent of the world’s most populous nation, is under enormous strain from the coronavirus pandemic and a rapidly-ageing society.

China Development Bank will provide additional funding support to upgrade the China Railway Express, which links 89 Chinese cities with 23 countries in Europe.

Shanghai Dowell Trading, which is the main operator of cosmetics and skin care products brand TST Tin’Secret, has denied the allegations that it is operating a pyramid scheme.

China revised its 2020 gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate to 2.2 per cent year on year, down from 2.3 per cent previously, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.

Premier Li Keqiang laid out how Beijing will adopt a market-based approach to increasing financial support for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) during Wednesday’s State Council meeting.

The Chinese city of Chengdu in Sichuan province and the municipality of Chongqing will invest in a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster, an industrial internet zone and a port logistics system, among other areas.

Local authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi said they found further problems during an investigation of 82 Starbucks stores in response to earlier claims by The Beijing News that expired ingredients were used in two shops.

An undercover report on Monday by a state-backed newspaper showed staff at two Starbucks shops in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi using expired cocoa liquid, matcha liquid and cream.