Foreign visitors once left China with little more than a handful of souvenirs. Now many arrive with empty suitcases and leave with them packed. On TikTok, the trend has a name: China Haul.

China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 4.6% year on year in the first three quarters of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Monday. See the charts below for more key economic figures.

One way to gauge a region's appeal to investors and entrepreneurs is to listen to those already embedded in its ecosystem. Take a European founder based in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province, who has called the city home for over a decade. He reports receiving daily inquiries from overseas

China's total retail sales of goods and services, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, increased by 2.6 percent year on year in the first three quarters of this year, official data showed Monday.

China's investment in real estate development went down 20.6 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Monday.

China's value-added industrial output increased by 5.3 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2026, official data showed on Monday.