China is seeing accelerated commercialization of automatic driving, with pilot projects recently kicking off in Wuhan and Chongqing.

August11,2022

This issue presents predictions on China's monetary policy in 2021 and focuses on the continuous recovery of China’s consumption market amid the country’s great efforts in epidemic control and production resumption.

January21,2021

Southwestern metropolis of China, Chongqing has planned to construct 5,000 5G base stations, while about 30,000 5G base stations will be built to achieve full coverage of the 5G network in the main city by 2022, said Chongqing Communication Administration.

August06,2019

Cities around the world are tapping into self-driving technologies with the hope of solving the "last mile" problem called by urban planners, according to a survey released by Bloomberg Philanthropies Monday.

October24,2017

Electrified autonomous vehicles will revolutionize urban mobility by reducing travel costs by up to 40 percent and cut down CO2 marginal emissions to zero, a World Economic Forum (WEF) report said Tuesday.

February14,2018

The report probes into the future trend of car industry and elaborates on how OEMs can prepare them for the cars of the future. They are suggested acquiring software providers, leaning into mobility as a service and expanding across the value chain to adapt to the coming and disruptive changes that is indisputable to effect the structure of the cars industry.

October22,2020

This issue focuses on the latest development of Chongqing on boosting regional connectivity with Singapore, and Shanghai on building on the international reinsurance center. It also introduces China's guidance policies for industrial structure adjustment.

November08,2019

Hubei Province lies in the middle reach of the Yangtze River with an area of 186,000 square km. Situated at 108'21"-116'07" east longitude and 29'05"-33'20" north latitude, it got its name from being located to the north of the Dongting Lake. The terrain of Hubei Province is high in the west and low in the east and wide open to the south, the Jianghan Plain. <br></br> Situated in south-central China, Hubei Province features a subtropical monsoon climate, with annual average temperature at about 15° C (59° F). The province has distinct four seasons with burning hot summer (June, July and August) and chilly winter (December, January and February). <br></br> Hubei has 12 prefecture-level cities, one autonomous prefecture, 38 municipal districts, 24 county-level cities, including 3 sub-prefecture cities, 38 counties, two autonomous counties and one forest region.

October19,2016

Hunan province, called Xiang for short, lies in the south of the middle Yangtze River valley, with its name meaning “south of the lake” as most of the province locates to the south of the Dongting Lake. It has an area of 211,800 square km, or 81,776 square miles. It is bounded by the provinces of Hubei province to the north, Jiangxi province to the east, Guangdong province to the southeast, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the southwest, and by Guizhou province and Chongqing Municipality to the west. <br></br> Hunan boasts a long history and is one of the places where Chinese agricultural cultivation originated. According to archeological excavations and written records, there were human beings living here permanently over 8,000 years ago, surviving mainly on primitive agriculture and domestic animal rearing. <br></br> By the end of 2015, the number of permanent residents in Hunan reached 67.83 million, including an urban population of 34.52 million with the urbanization ratio at 50.89%, up by 1.61 percentage points from end-2014. The number of newborns was 918,000 in 2015 and the birth rate was 1.358%. <br></br> The province’s gross domestic production (GDP) stood at 2,904.72 billion yuan in 2015, up by 8.6% year on year. Calculated by permanent resident population, Hunan’s gross domestic production per capita was 42,968 yuan, up by 7.9% from 2014.

October25,2016

By end-2016, the number of permanent residents in Hunan reached 68.22 million, including an urban population of 35.99 million. Its urbanization ratio stood at 52.75%, up by 1.86 percentage points from end-2015. The province's GDP stood at 3,124.47 billion yuan in 2016, up by 7.9% year on year. Calculated by permanent population, Hunan's per capita GDP was 45,931 yuan, an increase of 7.3% from 2015.

January18,2017

Situated at the transitional area between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the plain on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Chongqing is the economic center of the upper Yangtze and a hub connecting China's vast west and eastern coast. <br></br> One of the country’s four municipalities directly under the central government, Chongqing is famous for the towering mountains and roaring rivers, which have witnessed the local civilization of over 3,000 years. It is one of the four Chinese cities identified on the world map at the UN General Assembly Hall. <br></br> In the recent 100 years, Chongqing was first the commercial and trade center of the region and then the wartime capital of then China. It was an ancient military fort and China's ancient regional trade center. It was a town specialized in entrepot trade and now the largest industrial and commercial city of the region. It was a port city based in the SichuanBasin and now a municipality opened to the whole world. <br></br> Chongqing is now at a new momentum for broader achievements attributable to three unprecedented opportunities: the construction of the Three Gorges Dam Project and the migration of residents in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region, the establishment of the municipality directly under the central government, and China's Go West Strategy. <br></br> It has a registered population of 33.75 million and 29.91 million residents. In 2015, Chongqing generated 1.57 trillion yuan of gross domestic product (GDP), up 11% year on year.

September30,2016