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China has made several moves in recent months to advance its ambitious aim to become the trade and transportation hub of Asia.To its west, China has agreed to build a rail line across Central Asia....

China’s domination of electric cars, which is threatening to start a trade war, was born decades ago in university laboratories in Texas, when researchers discovered how to make batteries with...

Over the past 15 years, China has come to dominate the global market for solar energy. Nearly every solar panel on the planet is made by a Chinese company. Even the equipment to manufacture solar...

Chris BuckleyThe author reports on China and Taiwan for The New York Times from Taipei, focused on politics, social change and security and military issues.Xi Jinping, China’s leader, and 370 or so...

With billions of dollars in trade at stake, China and the European Union have agreed to engage in talks to try to resolve an escalating dispute over tariffs.China’s commerce minister, Wang Wentao,...

China is taking the rare step of sharply increasing fares for riders on four major bullet train lines, in its broadest move to address rising costs and heavy debts since construction of the system...

From the top of the government, China is heavily promoting a plan to fix the country’s stagnant economy and offset the harm from a decades long housing bubble.The program has a fresh slogan,...

China’s factory exports are powering ahead faster than almost anyone expected, putting jobs around the world in jeopardy and triggering a backlash that is gaining momentum.From steel and cars to...

China unleashed the full might of its solar energy industry last year. It installed more solar panels than the United States has in its history. It cut the wholesale price of panels it sells by nearly...

China’s BYD was a battery manufacturer trying its hand at building cars when it showed off its newest model in 2007. American executives at the Guangzhou auto show gaped at the car’s uneven purple...

China’s trains, planes, stores and beaches were a little fuller last month than a year ago, and the pace of activity picked up at factories, particularly those making mobile phones and...

China, which has lent nearly $1 trillion to some 150 developing countries, has been reluctant to cancel large debts owed by countries struggling to make ends meet. That is at least in part because...