China was widely expected to announce a gross domestic product (GDP) growth target for 2020 of ‘about 6 per cent’ before the outbreak of the coronavirus.

Less than one third of China’s 291 million migrant workers have returned to their jobs because of the coronavirus outbreak, the transport ministry says.

Chinese importers will be able to apply for exemptions to additional trade war tariffs on a total of 697 products lines.

The spike in Beijing’s poor air quality comes despite lower emissions from industry and vehicles due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

Beijing is keen for normal economic activities to resume amid concerns some local coronavirus containment measures are weighing the economy down.

100 deaths in a day for the first time, with all but five coming in the Hubei epicentre, as China’s chief planner warns against draconian limits on business.

Newspaper under People’s Daily questions why five medical workers were detained, fined for sharing information about deadly outbreak.

Guangdong and Shenzhen have gone into partial lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus as the extended Lunar New year holiday ended.

As the Chinese government scrambles to contain the outbreak, the contagion has spread to at least 24 other countries, sickening more than 270 outside China.

Life in Handan city, some 800km from the coronavirus epicentre, has virtually ground to a halt amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak and strict government controls.

As coronavirus has spread from Wuhan, there are signs the economic impact of the disease could be more severe than the Sars epidemic in 2002-2003.

The coronavirus is threatening to test China’s already fragile economy less than a week after it signed the breakthrough trade deal with the United States.

China agreed to buy additional US$200 billion worth of American goods and services over the next two years as part of the trade deal signed in Washington last week.

China’s economy slowed to 30-year low while its birth rate hit a six-decade low in 2019, emphasising the challenges facing the nation, despite trade war deal.

Trade war drives China’s economic growth to three decade low, but still within the government’s target growth rate of between 6.0 and 6.5 per cent.

Vice-Premier Liu He has told Chinese media it would be foolish to chase a phase two trade deal with the United States when the ink on phase one is not yet dry.

Data from China’s General Administration of Customs released on Tuesday showed that China’s imports of US goods dropped to US$122.7 billion in 2019.

China’s exports rose only 0.5 per cent in US dollar terms in 2019, a sharp deceleration from a rise of 9.9 per cent in 2018, according to data released on Tuesday.

China’s Ministry of Commerce confirmed on Thursday that Vice-Premier Liu He will travel to Washington on Monday to sign the phase one deal with the United States.

Pork prices in China rose by 97.0 per cent in December from a year earlier, keeping consumer inflation at an eight-year high of 4.5 per cent.

The Chinese coastal province of Jiangsu is the first to declare a near elimination of absolute poverty as part of President Xi Jinping’s drive to wipe it out by 2020.

‘Provisional’ regulation puts Chinese Communist Party committees in state-owned enterprises ahead of the board of directors.

Central Chinese city’s woes compounded with construction site disaster which trapped 11 for nearly 24 hours.

China will not raise its import quotas for corn, rice and wheat to help meet Donald Trump’s demands included in the phase one trade war deal.

Beijing’s decision to cut the US dollar weighting in a key yuan exchange rate index will promote greater international use of the yuan in financial transactions, say economists.

Profits at China’s industrial enterprises rose 5.4 per cent in November from a year earlier in latest sign of economic resilience.

China’s Commerce ministry calls US defence act ‘full of political biases’, saying sanctions are ‘evidence of government intervention in normal corporate operations’.

Fastener manufacturers in Handan city are seeking to expand foreign sales to make up for weaker domestic demand as China’s economic growth has hit record lows.

China’s removal of the ban on Japanese cows under 30 months old came before this week’s visit to China by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Trade ministers agree to continue to push for three-way agreement as lingering doubts over trade deal with US means China still wants to strengthen ties with its neighbours.