China Business & Economy

BEIJING— China’s economic growth cooled to its weakest quarterly pace since the global financial crisis, with regulators moving quickly to calm nervous investors as a years-long campaign to tackle debt risks and the trade war with the United States began to bite. Chinese authorities are trying to navigate through numerous challenges, as the trade war […]

Globalization has transformed China into the “world’s factory.” Eighteen years ago, developed and newly industrialized countries moved their labor-intensive and low-tech industries into the country. However, the onset of the Sino-U.S. trade war prompted a growing number of foreign companies to leave China and move to Southeast Asia, giving Australia new opportunities. China, the “world’s […]

So far this year, 385 chairmen at 376 listed private firms in China have resigned. That means, on average, at least one chairman has resigned each day.

A Chinese company has been using rotten apples in its juice, 95 percent of which is made for export to destinations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other destinations.

BEIJING—China’s politically sensitive yuan sank to a 22-month low against the dollar on Oct. 18 after the U.S. Treasury declined to label Beijing a currency manipulator amid a mounting tariff battle. The closely watched yuan fell to 6.9411 per dollar at mid-morning, coming its closest to breaking the symbolically significant level of seven to the […]

China’s soybean imports are set to drop by a quarter in the last three months of 2018, their biggest fall in at least 12 years as buyers curb purchases amid the China-U.S. trade war and high domestic stockpiles. Soybeans, crushed to make protein-rich animal feed ingredients and vegetable oils, have been at the heart of […]

TOKYO—Sales of industrial robots in China, the world’s biggest market, will grow this year at only about a third of last year as an escalating China-U.S. trade war hits spending on equipment, a global robot group said on Oct. 18. The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) in its annual report forecast Chinese demand for robots […]