Beijing

Ownership of social media app puts it at centre of rising geopolitical alarm, but you wouldn’t always know it

Data issues addressed by regulators are the same as those that preoccupy legislators in Europe

Li speaks of how the China-US relationship benefits both parties, in contrast to Xi Jinping’s tone

The Asian superpower’s president was speaking at the conclusion of the Two Sessions of the National People’s Congress in Beijing

After last year’s protests and the scrapping of zero-Covid, China’s president is looking to tighten the party’s control over the country’s policy levers

The country’s most important annual conference opens on Saturday, with Xi Jinping preparing to tighten grip on political power while Washington declares an ‘existential struggle’, writes Denis Staunton

Party leadership is taking special measures to avoid a re-run of last year’s demonstrations

Beijing is battling to get the global upper hand by mining rare earths from the seabed

Foreign minister says China will work with international community to find peaceful resolution to the conflict

Most economists say the mechanism for limiting internal migration impedes growth, but others warn against to loosening restrictions too soon

Beijing Letter: Schools have guidelines for dealing with the next outbreak, including possible return of online lessons

Tania Branigan explores the horrors of Mao’s decade of turmoil and disruption and how it relates to Xi’s preoccupation with order and discipline

Beijing Letter: In a formidable surveillance state, plenty still passes under the radar

Coronavirus galloping through country, 60,000 fatalities with disease in hospitals between December 8th and January 12th

For the past three years, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the annual migration for Chinese new year and many will return home this year for their first festival since 2019

With Covid restrictions lifted, China's capital is getting back on its feet

In the News podcast: Economic benefits, potential new variants and a lingering distrust

Doctors and nurses say working conditions are rapidly deteriorating and staff are infected

Liu Xia has been detained at home since Liu Xiaobo won the peace prize in 2010

Local media said officials claimed the 36.6-metre structure was ‘not approved’

Ursula Gauthier article had said state was cracking down on Muslim Uighur minority

Blamed for dire pollution, coal makes up two-thirds of China’s energy consumption

China’s producer-price index, measuring prices at factory gate, fell 5.4 per cent in July

Missing include human rights lawyers and some are believed to be in detention

Now it’s the Porsche Macan’s turn to be ‘photocopied’

The AIIB threatens to cause a rift between Washington and its allies

Irish dairy farmers will have to surf turbulent times to exploit long-term growth

Speakers look to slowing growth in China

Innovative design of concept SUV inspired by Starship Enterprise

To stay on target as it moves people to its cities, the country has to construct the equivalent of a major European capital every month. The result is astonishing, as visitors can see in Tianjin, which invited writers from around the world to witness ‘the greatest realignment of effort in human history’

$10,000 prize offered for the first team to break through Model S firewalls

Families frustrated at lack of information about missing aircraft hold staff for 10 hours

Plus BMW’s hot new convertible and Lexus’ first compact SUV

Two names listed on manifest of missing flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand