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Source: World Bank
Currency: RenminbiGDP: 13.61 trillion USD (2018)
GDP per capita: 9,770.85 USD (2018)
GDP growth rate: 6.6% annual change (2018)
GNI per capita: 18,170 PPP dollars (2018)
Gross national income: 25.3 trillion PPP dollars (2018)
Internet users: 54.3% of the population (2017)
Sinomach pumps $29bn into Greater Bay Area
Sinomach is planning to build a US$28.6 billion smart industrial complex in Huizhou in China's Greater…
Hong Kong crisis makes Tokyo walk the line
Japan wants to use the Hong Kong crisis to persuade its bankers to mover to Tokyo,…
Pandemic and environmentalists put pressure on New Silk Road
Governments want China to restructure, delay repayments or forgive tens of billions of dollars of loans…
Secondary Hang Seng listings open new front in US-China trade war
China’s largest online retailer JD.com will tomorrow become the latest in a growing roll call of…
Israel sucked into US-China trade war while India waits in the wings
US-China trade war: Israel has turned down a Hong Kong firm’s $1bn investment bid for the…
Lenovo bounce-back sign of things to come for PC industry….
Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest maker of personal computers, is expecting year-on-year PC sales to begin…
‘Travel bubbles’ give trade and tourism grounds for hope
The global tourist industry is estimated to account for more than 10% of the world’s GDP…
Maersk halves train times from China to Europe via Turkey
The journey time for the movement of goods between China and Europe was effectively slashed in…
Healthcare diplomacy helps consolidate China’s soft power
China’s soft power: The coronavirus pandemic has given President Xi Jinping’s administration the opportunity to continue…
Huwaei wins Russian 5G contract as Trump pushes Xi and Putin into each others’ arms
Huawei is to build Russia’s first 5G wireless network after it struck a deal with MTS…
BASF winning out in US-China trade war
BASF has emerged as one of the early winners from the fall-out between Washington and Beijing…
Fears of trade war and slowdown in recovery with US set to slap $60bn tariff bill on China
Fears of a trade war and a subsequent downturn in the global economy grew this week…
Tencent boss Pony Ma climbs Forbes rich list in rise and rise of e-commerce
With Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wresting top spot in the Forbes rich list from Microsoft’s Bill Gates …
A clash of symbols: Li pledges to open China up to foreign ownership as Trump slaps on steel import tariffs
Within days of US President Donald Trump declaring his intention to impose tariffs on steel imports, …
Exxon withdrawal and CEFC chief’s fall from grace double whammy for Rosneft
In what can without exaggeration be described as a bad day at the office, Rosneft was…
China pips India in battle for stake in Dakha Stock Exchange
This week’s announcement from Bangladesh that it had rejected a bid for a 25% stake in…
Russia and China set to join forces in Saudi Aramco IPO
A joint Russia-China investment fund is gearing up to participate in Saudi Aramco’s forthcoming IPO, the CEO of…
Apple’s Chinese data centre to open in 2020
Apple’s Chinese $1bn data centre should be up and running by 2020, sources close to the…
Liu steps out of Davos shadows to fuel speculation about Chinese succession
Speculation that the Harvard – educated economist Liu He is being groomed as successor to Chinese…
City of London looks to China and BRI to soften Brexit blow
Brexit: Around 200 British and Chinese government representatives and business leaders will gather in London this…
China’s thirst for energy drives trade with Russia to new heights
Russia has reached its goal of increasing bilateral trade with China to $80bn a year ahead…
Realities of Chinese FDI in Russia come home to roost by Baikal
The day-to-day implications of Russia’s pivot eastward are gradually unfolding for its Far Eastern and Siberian…
Sri Lanka leases Hambantota port to Chinese to cover loans – from China
Sri Lanka has formally handed over its loss-making southern port of Hambantota to China on a…