The first chunk of funds earmarked for housing projects endorsed by city officials has been issued, as debate rages over plans for far greater state involvement in the sector
 
							Beijing’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the EU and China could avoid confrontation through cooperation
 
							ASML tools are used to make advanced semiconductors that can go into "high-value weapons systems and weapons of mass destruction,” a top Dutch official said
 
							The failure of a Chinese rocket launch in April 2020 gave Elon Musk's SpaceX the opportunity to carry satellites for the Indonesian government
 
							Researchers say Chinese propaganda "has increasingly sought to stoke existing US divisions in the same way Russia has"
 
							National regulators say they "want to build is a socialist financial powerhouse", but warn that businesspeople must avoid graft and "excessive" risks
 
							Financial authorities in Beijing on Tuesday announced the country's biggest ever reduction in its benchmark mortgage rate
 
							COMAC’s narrow-body passenger airliner took to the skies in Singapore as the Chinese outfit ramps up its bid to take on Boeing and Airbus
 
							This is the second consecutive year of declining FDI into China, with numbers for 2023 less than 10% of the record amount of foreign inflows seen in 2021
 
							BASF is getting out and VW may follow. China said in response it hopes businesses in Xinjiang "cherish" their opportunities and not believe "rumours" about forced labour
 
							As investor anger and concern spreads through China's $2.9-trillion trust industry, the popular belief that the government would “step in to resolve any financial instability” is starting to fade
 
							CEO He Xiaopeng said the carmaker would hire 4,000 new workers and invest $486m in AI, as China faces a year seen as the first of a “knockout round” for Chinese auto brands