Purchasing managers' indices data released on Saturday showed factory and service-sector activity declined for a second straight month in April, it said
More than 80 cities have sought to boost demand, with subsidies, smaller down payments, mortgage rate cuts and relaxed purchase rules.
Shuttered since mid-March, the plant will resume operations as the city eases covid restrictions.
Head of Russia's foreign ministry's first Asia department tells news agency Interfax Russia-China trade target could be hit even sooner.
Improved profitability comes on the back of shrinking bad debts.
Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell for second straight month.
Chinese tech stock surge, gaining faster than overall stock market as investors hope China's tech crackdown is easing.
Four of China’s largest five banks have seen their biggest first quarter net profit growth in seven years
Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings, Meituan and TikTok owner ByteDance have been invited to a government-sponsored symposium
JPMorgan has cut its yuan forecasts twice in a week, and analysts at Standard Chartered, HSBC and others have also turned bearish on the Chinese currency
Tesla will recall 14,684 Model 3 cars that were locally made or imported between 2019 and March 2022 to fix a software problem, China's market regulator said.
China accounted for 52% of new coal power station capacity built globally last year, but overall power capacity from the fossil fuel shrank worldwide, a new study shows