According to National Health Commission figures, the average life expectancy in China had reached 79 in 2024 — same as in the ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Labubu appears to be yet another sign of China’s global success. Figurines of the grinning, pointy-eared elf, ...

In medicine, meanwhile, China has turned itself from a copycat maker of generics into the world’s second-largest developer of ...

The Chinese government is taking steps to rein in what it calls “involution,” or excessive competition that is hurting local companies and fueling the country’s deflationary spiral. Auto parts inside ...

Dan Wang argues that the battle between China and the United States is simply a conflict between engineers and lawyers. The situation is much more complicated than that. A man takes a photograph at ...

As China struggles with economic discontent, internet censors are silencing those who voice doubts about work or marriage, or simply sigh too loudly online. By Lily Kuo China’s censors are moving to ...