The data for China's gross domestic product had been highly anticipated after its economy grew just 0.4% in the second quarter. Other economic data has also been suspended.

Researchers in China's hypersonic and missiles programme have managed to obtain specialized US technology, such as advanced software products, via private resellers or research bodies

China's slowdown has hit the capacity of provinces to fund intrastructure projects and led many to shed staff, data from provincial governments shows

The move follows export restrictions imposed by the Biden Administration. YMTC is also being investigated by the Commerce officials on whether it sold chips to blacklisted Huawei

State banks sold a high volume of US dollars and used swaps and spot trades to defend the weakening yuan on Monday, sources said. One said the operation was 'rather huge'

"Complete reunification of the motherland must be achieved, and it must be achieved!" said Xi Jinping, as he was met with a long round of applause.

Xi said his ruling party will continue to wage an "all out people's war to stop the spread of the virus."

Economy minister Wang Mei-hua said she received "great interest" from meetings with Cisco Systems Inc, NVIDIA Corp, Applied Materials Inc and Synopsys Inc.

Taiwan's politicians felt Musk's views were driven by his business interests in China, Taiwan News said.

The world's poorest countries face $35 billion in debt-service payments, with more than 40% of the total due to China, the World Bank said.

Volkswagen will invest $2.33bn and take a 60% stake in a joint venture with Chinese tech firm Horizon Robotics for autonomous driving software and hardware

Consumer inflation accelerated as food prices rose 8.8% on year in September, data from the National Statistics Bureau showed on Friday