About 30 years ago, construction worker Song Aimin believed a lifetime of labor could earn him a spot among China's growing urban middle class. He left his village in the northern Hebei province and ...

It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.

In the past 50 years, China has built around 500 new cities. The country’s sprawling new urban areas have been instrumental ...

Johannes Eisele / AFP via Getty Images Major cities across China are sinking, putting a substantial portion of the country's rapidly urbanizing population in harm's way in the coming decades, ...

Almost half of China's major cities face potentially devastating subsidence, raising the flood risk for tens of millions. A Newsweek map shows the fastest-sinking areas. The threat is exacerbated by ...

China’s capital city of Beijing eased homebuying requirements for downpayment and mortgages, joining the country’s other mega cities to support the real estate sector. Beijing reduced downpayment ...

China has made the transfer of smart city technology one of the dimensions of its security diplomacy towards Africa. How concerned should Washington be about this development? As China seeks to expand ...

From several kilometres away China 117 Tower, the world’s sixth-tallest skyscraper, is an extraordinary sight—rivalling anything Dubai, Hong Kong or New York has to offer. On closer inspection, ...

The next generation of mobile technology promises lighting-fast speeds. Three of the biggest mobile companies in China have launched 5G services in 50 of its cities, according to China's state-run ...

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