International business community continues to see opportunities in China as Chinese top leaders make renewed pledges to expand opening-up and create a business environment that is market-orientated, law-based and up to international standards.

November22,2021

More than 150 international businesses have signed up to attend the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai for a seventh time, having attended all previous CIIEs, organizers said on Wednesday.

July25,2024

This is the fourth consecutive year of publication of Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Development Index since Xinhua News Agency, in collaboration with the Baltic Exchange, introduced the “Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index” to the world for the first time in 2014. This report has innovatively added featured topic research on “Global Bay Area Economy And International Shipping Centre” and “Shipping Environment Of The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road”; as well as discussions on other topics like intelligent shipping, arctic waterway, green shipping and rebalancing of shipping capacity. It is to be considered an innovative initiative to conduct in-depth quantitative analysis of the development of international shipping centres globally.

March12,2018

From the perspective of economic aggregate, Hainan Province is still a relatively less developed region. In recent years, focusing on the construction of an international tourist island, Hainan Province has actively integrated into the Belt and Road Initiative and maintained a rapid economic growth. The province realized GDP of 446.25 billion yuan in 2017, up 7.0% from 2016.

March23,2018

As the nation’s political, cultural and educational centre, Beijing is home to headquarters of most of the country’s major state-owned companies, as well as 58 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, and is a major hub for national highway, expressway, railway and high-speed rail networks. The Beijing Capital International Airport is the second busiest in the world in terms of passenger traffic.

January01,2017

Called Yue for short, Guangdong province is located at the south part of Chinese mainland. It borders Jiangxi province and Hunan province on the north, Guangxi on the west, and the South China Sea on the south. It had a population of 109.99 million at the end of 2016.

February09,2018

Heilongjiang province realized regional GDP of 1,538.61 billion yuan in 2016, up 6.1% from the previous year in comparable price. The per capita GDP was 40,432 yuan, with an increase of 6.5%.

March08,2018

Tianjin was given the new orientation as “Flagship” by developing into a core of Beijing-Tian-Hebei Metropolitan Region. With the development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration, Tianjin is seeing a series of benefits: the interconnected and convenient network of infrastructure, stronger advanced manufacturing industry, effective innovation, significant increase in the level of openness, and quicker paces in industrial docking and cooperation. Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) is the most vibrant and fastest growing zone in Bohai Rim, and its IT and manufacturing industry is the leading the industry development in China.

January01,2018

Hubei Province, officially abbreviated as "鄂" (È) and situated in the middle reaches of Yangtze River, is one of the six provinces sitting in central China and the largest integrated transportation and communication hub in the midland, known as the “Overpass of China”. Thanks to its strategic position, the province, also a scientific and educational base of China with rich land and labour resources and relatively complete industrial structure, manages to cultivate as many as 17 advantageous industries with over 100 billion yuan output, which have become important fields for its investment attraction.

May22,2018

Henan Province, birthplace of the Chinese civilization, sits along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in mid-east China. It is a major producer of agricultural products and mineral resources. With the biggest population in China, Henan provides abundant labour and a massive consumer market. At the same time, Henan is a key hub for transportation, communication, and logistics. As China’s biggest grain producer and processor, Henan ranks among the top five in China in terms of economy and is now accelerating its industrialization and urbanization. Under such circumstances, investors are advised to pay attention to investment chances hidden in its pillaring industries including equipment manufacturing, Aluminum, Automobile and auto parts, Food, Coal chemical industry and high-tech emerging industries as well.

June22,2018

Chongqing is the only municipality in central and western China that is directly under the central government. Chongqing is an economic center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, an integrated transportation hub in south-western China, and a pilot zone for overall urban and rural comprehensive reform. It is also a major modern manufacturing base and the largest industrial and commercial city in southwest China.

March19,2018

Hebei is an important grain and cotton producer in China. Hebei has several big seaports with cargo throughput over one million tons each year, such as Port of Tangshan, Port of Huanghua and Port of Qinhuangdao. Its cargo turnover by railways and roads is highest in China. The province’s competitive industries include new energy, automobiles, steel, coal, textile, light industry and medicines.

March30,2018

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

The gross domestic product (GDP) of Guizhou province reached 1,173.44 billion yuan in 2016, with an increase of 10.5% over the previous year. Its GDP ranked the 25th among the country’s 31 provinces and municipalities, but it saw the second fastest GDP growth among its peers in 2016.

March09,2018

Tibet Autonomous Region sits on the southwest part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is known for its splendid, magnificent, and amazing natural scenery with a total area of 1,228,400 square metres, nearly one-eighth of China’s total size. Tibet has an array of important roles: national security shield, ecological barrier, reserve base of strategic resources, as well as base of highland agricultural products, heritage of China’s national culture, and a hot destination for global tourists.

June04,2018

Shaanxi Province, called Shaan or Qin for short, is located in the hinterland of China and along the middle reach of the Yellow River, with a total land area of 205,600 square kilometers. In 2016, Shaanxi's regional GDP realized 1,916.54 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 7.6%.

April11,2018

Sichuan Province, called Chuan or Shu for short, is located in the west part of China. In 2016, the regional GDP of Sichuan reached 3,268.05 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 7.7 percent.

June11,2018

Though Qinghai is one of the largest provinces of China by area, it has the third smallest population. As a multi-ethnic province, Qinghai is home to 43 ethnic minority groups, including Tibetan, Hui, Mongol, Tu and Salar, accounting for 47 percent of the province’s total population. Qinghai, though a less developed economy, is endowed with abundant solar, wind, oil, gas, and grassland resources. It has the largest deposits of lithium, potassium and magnesium ores in China.

June22,2018

Shandong is one of the most economically developed provinces in China. It has been the third largest in the country in terms of regional GDP since 2007. Its GDP accounted for 9 percent of the national total in 2016. Shandong is the second most populous province of China, accounting for 7.2 percent of the country’s total population by the end of 2016. Shandong is also the second largest coastal port province of China. In 2016, the cargo throughput at Shandong’s major coastal ports accounted for 17.6 percent of the country’s total. Shandong is an important production base for grain, cotton, oil, meat, eggs and milk in China. It has well-developed light industries, especially textile and food industries. Shandong is the largest exporter of vegetables, fruits, and aquatic products in the country. Its exports of agricultural products make up nearly one-fourth of China’s total agricultural exports.

May31,2018

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, located in the far northwest of China, is the largest Chinese administrative division, accounting for roughly one sixth of China’s total land territory and a quarter of China’s boundary length. The region neighbours Tibet Autonomous Region to the south, and Qinghai and Gansu provinces to the southeast. It borders the countries of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Xinjiang is administrated as one of China’s five autonomous regions.

July10,2018