AI developers in are offering free tea, free use of cars and even robots in promotions aimed at locking in users.

Profits of China's major industrial firms returned to growth in 2025, snapping a three-year streak of declines, with emerging sectors such as equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing ...

Baijiu, China’s favourite firewater, is losing its bite. This year retail prices have been hovering around the benchmark of 1,499 yuan ($212) a bottle, as set by Kweichow Moutai, a state-owned giant.

If you are feeling dispirited at work or burned out by the general pressure of life, there is a perfect word for you: "involution." The Mandarin Chinese word for "involution" — neijuan — is now a ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the CIO of KraneShares, a China-focused ETF provider. Asian equities were mixed on rising expectations of another US interest ...

China’s “anti-involution” policy to tackle deflation, announced in 2024, is still in its early stages. Lower import prices for Chinese goods can ripple through trading partners’ economies. Investors ...

China is gripped by an insidious problem that is eroding its economy: It is trapped in a cycle of competition so fierce that it is destroying profits, driving a brutal rat race among workers and ...

Mr. Davis is an economics reporter and an author of “Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War.” Competition in China is often far more cutthroat than in the ...

When the Chinese term first emerged in popular culture in China a few years ago, the initial application was to Chinese students and young people trapped in highly competitive schools and jobs that ...

Instead of being a story of evolution and technological development, the story of China and EVs is one of “involution.” The Chinese economy suffers from an excess of competition. Too many products are ...

HONG KONG, August 13 (Reuters) - Overcapacity has made its way into China’s domestic market, with price wars leading to collapsing profitability and accelerating deflation. The government has ...