China's factory-gate prices continued to move upward in October, posting the biggest increase in more than four years amid surging global energy prices and a boom in artificial intelligence investment worldwide, even as consumer prices remained fairly stable, analysts said.

The scorching summer that gripped Europe this year remains a fresh memory. Extreme weather is also posing a growing threat to China, underscoring the shared challenge facing a warming planet.

As the ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE) is underway in Shanghai, Maria Simo, Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Economic and Commercial Office of Spain in Shanghai, has highlighted the growing economic ties between China and Spain, while calling for more opportunities to expand

As tariffs rise, trade restrictions multiply and geopolitical tensions weigh on global economic ties, the case for keeping markets open has become increasingly urgent.

At the recent EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, Italy, the crowd around the CFMOTO booth was so thick that you could barely move. Expo visitors' enthusiasm reflects a broader reality. In 2025, China became the EU's second-largest motorcycle supplier, accounting for 27.1 percent of imports and roughly

"AI doesn't scale in laboratories. It scales on the shop floor." Siemens is positioning China as a real-world test bed for industrial AI, moving beyond treating the country as a sales market to leveraging its end-to-end industrial value chain.