In the latest sign ties are improving between the two countries, business visa processing times have reportedly been cut to within four weeks
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The bank now expects GDP to grow 4.9 percent in 2025 and 4.4 percent in 2026
The fund’s China mission chief said a new 5 percent forecast reflected the country’s ‘notable resilience despite facing multiple shocks’
China’s Consumer Price Index rose at its fastest annual rate since March 2024, official data showed, driven primarily by an increase in food prices
While exports have resumed, experts point out that Chinese demand for Nvidia’s H200 AI chips may now be limited by cybersecurity and strategic concerns
Nvidia will be allowed to sell its second most powerful chip to ‘approved customers’ in China, with the US government set to receive 25 percent of the revenue
Outbound shipments grew 5.9 percent year-on-year, reversing October’s contraction, and bring China’s trade surplus for the year to date to over US$1 trillion
There are significantly more flu cases this winter than the last, with kids aged between 5 and 14 being hit the hardest
With the NBA back in Macao, China aims to deepen international basketball ties and expand overseas partnerships