China on Thursday revised up its 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.7% to 129.4 trillion yuan ($17.73 trillion), the head of the National Bureau of Statistics Kang Yi said at a press conference in Beijing.

China says its economy grew a bit more in 2023 than earlier thought, according to an economic census conducted every five years.

China-linked buyers accounted for 203 of 371 land purchases with national security significance in Japan in FY 2023.

A Chinese court has issued a suspended death sentence to a man who rammed his car into crowds outside a primary school in southern China last month, injuring more than two dozen people in one of several violent attacks that has recently rattled the country and prompted officials to ramp up security measures.

Chinese battery manufacturer CATL said on Thursday it plans to seek a listing in Hong Kong, a Shenzhen Stock Exchange filing showed.

There have been at least 20 such attacks in China this year, with a death toll of more than 90 people. Government officials have called these incidents “isolated” and offered explanations emphasizing individual motivations: the driver in the Zhuhai car attack was unhappy with his divorce settlement,

China and Japan have agreed to set up talks on often contentious security issues. The two countries are seeking to improve a relationship riven in recent years by a range of issues, from territorial disputes to the discharge of water from Japan’s tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant.

Former Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer told BI that automakers ditching EVs for hybrids risked falling even further behind their Chinese rivals.

China kept a key interest rate unchanged — a move widely expected by economists — as it seeks to keep its powder dry ahead of possible escalation in trade tensions with the US.

The US probe into China’s semiconductor industry seeks to determine the potential danger it represents. According to the White House, Beijing is targeting the semiconductor indu

As it turns out, linebacker David Long Jr. will not be rejoining Tennessee. The Titans announced on Thursday that the club failed Long’s physical after claiming him off waivers from the Lions. Long, 28, was waived after playing five games with Detroit, starting one. He began the season with Miami, playing eight games with six starts.