Tag: #Shanghai

Hong Kong residents inspired by Xuelong 2, calling it ‘a big gift’ to enhance pride of national identity

Chen Qingqing April 07, 2024

Hong Kong residents inspired by Xuelong 2, calling it ‘a big gift’ to enhance pride of national identity

The Xuelong 2, China's first domestically built polar research icebreaker, arrived in Hong Kong on Monday morning for a five-day pit stop amid a warm welcome by local residents. This also marks the vessel's first visit to the city as well as the return of a Chinese polar...More

Global fund managers ramp up investment portfolios in China, boosted by rising confidence

Global Times March 17, 2024

Global fund managers ramp up investment portfolios in China, boosted by rising confidence

Global asset management companies are expanding their investment portfolios in China, boosted by their growing confidence in Chinese assets. China's industrial upgrading and ramped-up policy support remain the major attractions for overseas investors, Hu Qimu, a deputy secretary-general of the digital-real economies integration Forum 50, told the Global...More

Night school boom reflects Chinese youth’s pursuit of personal fulfillment, defying ‘lying flat’ narrative

Lin Xiaoyi and Xie Wenting December 07, 2023

Night school boom reflects Chinese youth’s pursuit of personal fulfillment, defying ‘lying flat’ narrative

Working during the day and acquiring new skills at night is becoming a new way of life for young people in China. From dancing to vocal training, from traditional handicrafts, beauty, and fitness classes, to wine tasting and vlog filming, the list of possibilities for new learning experiences...More

Xiconomics in Practice: Xi’s inspection tour elevates Shanghai’s leading role in high-quality development

GT staff reporters December 06, 2023

Xiconomics in Practice: Xi’s inspection tour elevates Shanghai’s leading role in high-quality development

Chinese President Xi Jinping's six-day inspection tour of Shanghai has further elevated the major Chinese economic powerhouse's exemplary role in leading the country toward high-quality development, as he stressed expediting building Shanghai into a modern socialist international metropolis, local officials, businesses and experts said on Monday. During the...More

What is behind recent changes in policies toward China by US and Australia?

Roland Boer December 01, 2023

What is behind recent changes in policies toward China by US and Australia?

Recently, two important events took place that have a close relationship with each other, but the relationship is not what one would initially expect. Most recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping and the large delegation he led to San Francisco were warmly welcomed by large sections of the US...More

Pulse on China’s economy: Listed firms report improved Q3 financial results, as experts hope for a significant A-share market rally in 2024

Zhang Hongpei November 02, 2023

Pulse on China’s economy: Listed firms report improved Q3 financial results, as experts hope for a significant A-share market rally in 2024

More listed firms in China have published their third-quarter financial performance reports, which indicate a broad improvement from the second quarter with the nation's economic recovery gaining rising momentum. The public companies, which have become a major base of China's economy, are reporting resilience in growth, backed up...More

Memorial hall of the CPC 1st National Congress attracts young visitors with creative cultural products

Huang Lanlan in Shanghai October 29, 2023

Memorial hall of the CPC 1st National Congress attracts young visitors with creative cultural products

The Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Shanghai, one of China's most renowned "red tourism" attractions, is flooded with visitors from across the country all year round. During this year's eight-day National Day holidays alone, the memorial received more...More

Young couples practice environmental protection via carbon neutral weddings Reducing footprints

Huang Lanlan in Shanghai October 12, 2023

Young couples practice environmental protection via carbon neutral weddings Reducing footprints

Yang Yin held her wedding ceremony in Shanghai during the just past National Day holidays, a traditional wedding peak in China. The wedding, in her words, "couldn't be simpler, environmentally-friendly and low-cost." Yang only invited some 20 guests, all of which were her and her husband's close relatives....More

It is necessary to expose the ‘foreign ghosts’ spreading rumors about Chinese economy: Global Times editorial

Global Times September 18, 2023

It is necessary to expose the ‘foreign ghosts’ spreading rumors about Chinese economy: Global Times editorial

Has China's Shanghai turned into a "ghost town"? This "nonsense" that can be easily distinguished by both Chinese people and foreigners with basic common sense has astonishingly become the headline of an article in the well-established American news magazine, Newsweek. There are indeed people playing tricks behind this...More

Over 90% of global businesses expect more trade with China under RCEP: survey

GT staff reporters November 10, 2022

Over 90% of global businesses expect more trade with China under RCEP: survey

Thanks to the colossal Chinese market and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which came into force at the beginning of the year, multinationals remain optimistic over the Chinese market, with more than 90 percent of the surveyed firms from the RCEP members expecting to expand trade with...More

Shanghai Office Buildings Set Up CPC Branches To Serve Firms, Unite Members

Cao Siqi for Global Times December 16, 2018

Shanghai Office Buildings Set Up CPC Branches To Serve Firms, Unite Members

More than 1,400 commercial buildings in Shanghai have set up branches of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to better serve the companies and unite CPC members and the masses. Shanghai has been extending Party branches in every company in commercial buildings, and 90 percent of its 1,410...More