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 ...

Chinese authorities are working to transform the Pearl River Delta, the most populous region on Earth, into a powerful ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

NEARLY 12m STUDENTS will graduate from Chinese universities this month. Where they go after that is increasingly difficult to predict. For decades graduates were drawn to the same four cities: Beijing ...

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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