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What are China’s hottest jobs as AI reshapes the labour market?

China’s job market is entering a decisive phase of structural transformation as the country retools its growth model after years…

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How the ‘world’s supermarket’ rode out Trump’s tariffs – and grew even stronger

Wang Nan, a hardware trader in China’s eastern city of Yiwu, expected her business to feel some pain when the…

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China sellers brace as EU preps US-style move to tighten rules on low-value parcels

Three years into the cross-border e-commerce trade, Shenzhen-based seller Xiong Hao is grappling with the fallout from Washington’s decision to…

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China ups e-commerce delivery fees to stave off harmful price spirals

China’s express delivery industry is responding to a broad government push to limit downward price spirals by raising courier fees…

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Hard to pivot: why China’s exporters struggle to sell at home despite trade war

A Chinese company that exports straws and food packaging materials spent 30 million yuan (US$4.16 million) last year to comply…

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Chinese traders in world’s largest wholesale market adjust to fewer US buyers

The American accent is conspicuously scarce among foreign buyers wandering the aisles of China’s largest wholesale market – a sprawling…

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Yiwu sold China’s goods to the world. Now, it wants to do the opposite

For decades, Yiwu has been China’s shop window to the world. The city in the eastern province of Zhejiang is…

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Chinese firms, trapped in Trump policy maelstrom, struggle to stay on course

From tariffs to package deliveries, unexpected policy declarations – and in some cases, near-immediate reversals – from US President Donald…

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