For years, Shenzhen has been synonymous with Chinese innovation. The southern megacity - and the firms it has spawned over the decades - have become the indisputable champions of the country's drive for technological self-reliance,

Aerial footage shows steel parked at a wharf at a steel market in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China,3, 2025. Vietnam announced on1 that it will levy anti-dumping duties of 19.38%, 26.94% and 27.83% on Chinese steel products exported to Vietnam.

From Beijing trying to reset relations with Tokyo to Hangzhou rivalling Shenzhen, here’s a round-up from today’s China and economy coverage.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek said on Wednesday that between 1630 GMT and 0030 GMT, the cost of using its API, a platform that allows developers of other apps and web products to integrate its AI models,

The southern tech hub has put out an ambitious plan to build up emerging industries like artificial intelligence in its 2025 work report.

China’s joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper - extending to TVs, fridges and robot vacuum cleaners with a slew of home appliance brands announcing that their products will feature the startup’s artificial intelligence models.

Science-based policies and crucial contributions from countries like China were highlighted as key to the global fight against climate change at the 62nd plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which opened on Monday in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province.

Discover how Hangzhou is transforming into China's premier tech innovation hub, driving cutting-edge advancements and attracting global talent.

China's Unitree Robotics has been turning heads with its advanced humanoid robots, whose impressive speed, balance and agility have captured a lot of attention in real life and online. Founded in 2016 by CEO Wang Xingxing,

Chinese President Xi Jinping will host a meeting next week with some of the nation's top entrepreneurs - including six Hangzhou-based start-ups known as the "Six Little Dragons" - to recognise progress in critical areas of technological advancement and show support to the private sector,