China's new Beijing Stock Exchange will launch on Monday and is poised to help boost fund-raising options for cash-starved smaller companies.

Environment Ministry says cumulative trading volumes hit 1 billion yuan ($156m) after the emissions trading scheme was set up in mid-July

Chinese e-commerce giant records $84.5 billion in gross merchandise sales, but growth was lowest since the shopping event was created in 2009

Didi is preparing to relaunch its ride-hailing apps in China by year-end as it anticipates a regulatory probe into the company will end by then, three people directly involved in the relaunch said.

New Beijing stock exchange has approved applications from 10 companies to list shares next week, two months after President Xi Jinping announced the bourse for small and medium-sized firms

Foreign firms complain about lack of transparency, insufficient lead time for new rules and less access to policy and standard drafting – but realize that China is bigger player now

Trade officials reject efforts by 'breakaway' group of solar energy firms to seek tariffs on imports from three SE Asian nations; main trade group says move could have caused loss of 46,000 jobs

Foreign Policy calls attempts to bully Australia a "spectacular failure" while Japan's Itochu Research Institute notes Canberra's resilience

Changes mean travellers who have received China's Sinovac and Sinopharm will be considered as 'fully vaccinated' in Britain

The owner of games such as Honor of Kings, PUBG mobile and Clash of Clans has also seen advertising spend fall because of the crackdowns

China’s slowdown is likely to intensify, according to analysts at Nomura. They say four negative shocks will hit growth until a threshold is reached in early 2022

Researchers say a property crash in China similar to the ones in Spain and the US during the global financial crisis could scar the global economy for years