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  • Feature: Chinese art scholar recreates literary classics with brushstrokes

    In a quiet gallery tucked along Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City, centuries whisper through pigment and mist.

    June17,2025


  • South China Guangxi's Baise celebrates traditional Sanyuesan ethnic festival with various joyful activities

    Ethnic groups in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, including those in Youjiang District of Baise City, celebrate the Sanyuesan Festival with cheerful tunes of folk songs, lively bamboo stick dances and colorful traditional food.

    April12,2024


  • New Opportunities of China-Laos Economic and Trade Cooperation in New Era

    The report mainly presents the fruitful results achieved in bilateral economic and trade cooperation, the key cooperation construction projects between the two countries, and the vast opportunities for bilateral cooperation in the future.

    December08,2023


  • Cross-border e-commerce brings new opportunities to China-Africa economic and trade co-op.

    Cross-border e-commerce has become an important engine for the fast growing economic and trade cooperation between China and Africa, bringing a large number of African goods to China, the Xinhua-run Economic Information Daily reported Thursday.

    April13,2023


  • Shanghai to accelerate construction of characteristic industrial parks

    Shanghai will accelerate the construction of characteristic industrial parks and promote investment in local industries, according to policies issued by Shanghai last Friday.

    May18,2020


  • Fblife holds First China-Thailand Rally Racing to promote hero culture

    Fblife, China's leading club platform for domestic SUV and off-roader fanciers, held the First China-Thailand Rally Racing (CTRR) on Sunday, in Xingyi city of Qianxinan Bouyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in China's Guizhou province.

    December02,2019


  • History

    July09,2015


  • Belt and Road Initiative boosts China's e-commerce

    Even in his wildest dreams, Wu Zhen never expected to run a business with annual sales of 100 million yuan (about 14.5 million U.S. dollars) when he started his cross-border online store in 2015.

    May02,2017


  • Jiangxi3

    April21,2016


  • Diverse events embody deep cultural roots

    ​In downtown Jing’an, cobblestone alleyways and avenues lined with sycamore trees are more than just walking paths or driveways. 

    September24,2019


  • Spotlight: Resumption of businesses in China boon for global supply chain

    As the coronavirus has spread to more countries around the globe, there are mounting worries about a disruption to global supply chains. Against this backdrop, the resumption of production in China, known as the world's factory, bears global significance.

    March19,2020


  • Jiangxi Business Environment & Assessment Report (2015)

    Jiangxi Province, called Gan for short, lies on the southern bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It borders Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei and Anhui to the north. Jiangxi dominates the Yangtze River on the north, and connects Wuhan in the upper stream, and Nanjing and Shanghai downstream. It is close to the coastal opening cities in the southeast. Two trunk railways -- Beijing-Kowloon and Zhejiang-Jiangxi lines -- run through the whole province, which provided with convenient transportation and superior location. By the end of 2013, Jiangxi’s population had reached 45.22 million. There are 38 ethnic groups in the province, with Han people accounting for more than 99 percent of the total population. Jiangxi is famous for its Blue and White Porcelain. The Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) is a key period for the development of the firing techniques of the Blue and White Porcelain in China. Its unique characteristics were based on the techniques of former dynasties. The Blue and White Porcelain had become major porcelain product of China by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties (1368-1911). Entering the 21st century, Jiangxi has insisted on applying scientific outlook on development, emphasizing on innovations, entrepreneurship, and development in a harmonious way. Taking ecological protection as its first priority, the province aims for a balanced and fast economic development. Since China’s reform and opening up policy was launched in 1978, its average annual economic growth rate in the years between 1979 and 2013, 1991 and 2013, 2001 and 2013 reached 10.7 percent, 11.7 percent and 13.2 percent, respectively. Jiang’s gross domestic production (GDP) rose 9.7 percent to 1.57 trillion yuan in 2014. Jiangxi province’s economic structure has been improving in the recent years. In 2014, added value of the primary industry totaled 168.37 billion yuan, rising 4.7 percent from the previous year; added value of the secondary industry grew 11.1 percent to 838.83 billion yuan; added value of the tertiary industry increased 8.8 percent to 563.66 billion yuan. Implementing a strategy for new pattern of industrialization, Jiangxi has nurtured and developed industries with its own characteristics, such as optoelectronic industry, high-precision copper-rod, high-grade and special steel products, special car and ship, precision machinery, bio-medication, particular chemical industry, green food, holiday-making tourism, and new-pattern service.

    June30,2016


  • Global Fashion Industry Index - Fashion Week Vitality Index

    Global Fashion Industry Index - Fashion Week Vitality Index, as the pilot version of “Global Fashion Industry Index”, has adhered to the keynote thought of “fashion consumption, industrial upgrade”, built a closed-loop ecologic system featuring “consumption leading with fashion, industry driving with consumption and fashion promotion with industry”, formed the integrated “fashion + industry + consumption” development path with Oriental cultural characteristics, neither unilaterally emphasized “shows” nor purely valued “business”, but attached more importance to the promoting effect of fashion on the harmonious development between industry and consumption, the revolutionary influence of e-commerce and other internet + technological revolutions on the fashion industry as well as the deep adjustment of global fashion layout resulting from consumption upgrade in great powers.

    June26,2018


  • Jiangxi Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)

    Jiangxi Province, called Gan for short, lies on the southern bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It borders Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei and Anhui to the north. Jiangxi dominates the Yangtze River on the north, and connects Wuhan in the upper stream, and Nanjing and Shanghai downstream. It is close to the coastal opening cities in the southeast. Two trunk railways -- Beijing-Kowloon and Zhejiang-Jiangxi lines -- run through the whole province, which provided with convenient transportation and superior location. <br></br> By the end of 2015, Jiangxi’s population reached 45.65 million. There are 38 ethnic groups in the province, with Han people accounting for more than 99% of the total population. <br></br> Jiangxi is famous for its Blue and White Porcelain. The Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) is a key period for the development of the firing techniques of the Blue and White Porcelain in China. Its unique characteristics were based on the techniques of former dynasties. The Blue and White Porcelain had become major porcelain product of China by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties (1368-1911). <br></br> Entering the 21st century, Jiangxi has insisted on applying scientific outlook on development, emphasizing on innovations, entrepreneurship, and development in a harmonious way. Taking ecological protection as its first priority, the province aims for a balanced and fast economic development. Jiang’s gross domestic production (GDP) rose 9.1% to 1.67 trillion yuan in 2015. Jiangxi province’s economic structure has been improving in the recent years. In 2015, added value of the primary industry totaled 177.30 billion yuan, rising 3.9% from the previous year; added value of the secondary industry grew 9.4% to 848.73 billion yuan; added value of the tertiary industry increased 10.0% to 646.35 billion yuan. <br></br> Implementing a strategy for new pattern of industrialization, Jiangxi has nurtured and developed industries with its own characteristics, such as optoelectronic industry, high-precision copper-rod, high-grade and special steel products, special car and ship, precision machinery, bio-medication, particular chemical industry, green food, holiday-making tourism, and new-pattern service. <br></br> Thanks to its advantageous position and rich resources, Jiangxi has attracted investors from 70 countries and regions to invest in the province. The investment involved not only traditional industries, such as light industry, textile, mechanical, chemical industry, but also high-tech industries, such as photovoltaic industry, LED (light-emitting diode) materials, copper refining, automotive and spare parts, IT, as well as trade and services.

    October11,2016


  • Belt & Road Weekly Vol.5 No. 11

    This issue provides insights of China's medicine trade with B&R countries and presents resumption of businesses in China, which played a key role in global supply chain.

    March19,2020


  • Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index (2019)

    The development index results show that the top ten international shipping centres in the world in 2019, by order of ranking, are: Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Dubai, Rotterdam, Hamburg, New York-New Jersey, Houston and Athens. Compared to 2014-2019, the overall evaluation results are relatively stable.

    July25,2019


  • 2017 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development

    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


  • Jiangxi Business Environment & Assessment Report (2017)

    Jiangxi Province, also known as “Gan” for the Gan River, is located on the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The province has rich resources and is one of the largest copper industrial bases in Asia. It is reputed as “World Tungsten City”, “Kingdom of Rare Earth”, “China Copper Capital” and “Hometown of Nonferrous Metals”. Thanks to its abundant and rich ecological resources, its green industries, such as green agriculture, electronic information, bio-pharmaceuticals and advanced manufacturing, boasting high technological content and low environmental pollution, have shown a strong momentum for development and are sound investment choices for investors.

    June07,2018


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