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Storm brewing in China’s solar-panel sector threatens to spiral out of control

Within days of a nascent Opec-style agreement by Chinese solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers to end a bruising price war and…

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A bleak 2025 awaits China’s 30,000 car dealers as price war piles on US$24 billion losses

More than 30,000 car dealers in mainland China are facing another bleak year in 2025, with many turning from profit-generators…

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December EV sales of BYD, Nio, Xpeng, Li Auto, Leap, Zeekr soar on China’s buying spree

Half a dozen assemblers in China delivered record numbers of electric vehicles (EVs) to customers last month, as they rode…

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Chinese EV makers face ‘do-or-die moment’ as competitive screws tighten

Unprofitable Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers, ravaged by a discount war at home and higher tariffs abroad, are stepping up…

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Temu owner PDD sees 10% plunge in pre-market trading despite 44% revenue growth

PDD Holdings shares plunged by more than 10 per cent in pre-market trading, despite a 44 per cent rise in…

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China’s embattled restaurants, embroiled in price war, struggle to stay afloat

In Beijing, profits of the catering companies with annual revenues exceeding 2 million yuan (US$280,750) fell to 180 million yuan…

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Tech

ByteDance’s CapCut, Doubao top global AI app downloads, outpacing ChatGPT: report

Video-editing app CapCut recorded 38.42 million downloads in July, while chatbot Doubao achieved 27.45 million downloads to outperform OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…

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JD.com profit surges in second quarter after slashing prices, installing trade-in programme

Chinese online shopping giant JD.com reported a 92 per cent year-on-year jump in quarterly net income to 12.6 billion yuan…

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China hits 100 billion deliveries as couriers grow part and parcel with e-commerce

This equates to an average of 71.43 packages per person, 5,144 packages delivered every second, or 440 million packages moving…

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Tech

Chinese AI start-up Moonshot cuts LLM feature price amid fierce domestic competition

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm Moonshot AI has halved the price of a new feature on its Kimi large language…

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