The favourite for the role, Li Qiang, will have to drive growth just as Xi is putting ever more stress on national security

The Japanese and Chinese automakers will jointly produce the Toyota bZ3

China exported 10.56 million masks to North Korea in September, up from just 210 in August, and 40,000 pairs of rubber gloves

China's top exports to Russia included smartphones, generator sets, excavators and containers, while imports from Russia also rose 55%.

CATL reported profits of $1.3 billion in Q3, with revenue also rising by 232.5% to $13.41 billion

All six members of the party's new executive committee boast scientific expertise, from nuclear power to rocket science, reported the SCMP

Group cuts prices by up to 9%, which a CMBI analyst said "underscores the possible price war which we have been emphasising since August."

The Chinese memory chipmaker YMTC has asked US employees to leave group in a bid to comply with the export restrictions imposed recently by the Biden Administration

New home prices fell in China for the second straight month in September, with falls in 54 cities, official statistics showed on Monday

Hong Kong stock index falls over 6% to levels last seen in the 2008 crisis, with shares of Alibaba and Tencent down 10% and 8% on fears economic growth will be sacrificed for ideological policies

Gross domestic product (GDP) rose 3.9% in the July to September quarter over 2021, official data showed on Monday, with exports up but home prices down and youth unemployment near 18%

Having packed his leadership with allies, and the constitution amended to enshrine Xi's ideas as its "core", Xi has a free hand to make and implement policy, for better or worse.