The Caixin China General Manufacturing PMI unexpectedly rose to 50.4 in June 2025, up from 48.3 in May—which had marked the steepest contraction since September 2022—and beating market forecasts of 49 ...

Factory activity in many Asian economies shrank in June as U.S. tariff uncertainty kept demand low, but signs of modest ...

The Caixin China General Manufacturing PMI for June 2025 registered a modest increase, rising to 50.4 from 48.3 in May, thereby indicating a return to expansionary territory for Chinas manufacturing ...

The private survey appeared to diverge from the country’s official PMI report, which showed manufacturing activity contracted ...

Overall new orders increased in June after falling in May, with factory bosses citing an improvement in trade conditions and ...

A private gauge of China’s manufacturing activity bounced back into expansionary territory in June, as a temporary trade ...

Granted rare access to a BYD plant near Shanghai, celebrated photographer Edward Burtynsky documented how automation is ...

YOU know that things have reached an inflection point when China’s People’s Daily newspaper warns against “involution” in an industry, noting that firms and factories have been racing to produce the ...

Unified standards and centralized purchasing and sales have created a production landscape, where "every household is a ...

Many people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built on the same foundations as in the West. The ...

BANGKOK — China's economy managed a mixed economic performance in May, as retail sales jumped while factory output slowed in the face of higher U.S. tariffs. Data released Monday showed retail ...

BEIJING, China - Retail sales in China grew at a faster rate than expected last month, official data showed Monday, a positive sign for the world's second-largest economy during its grinding ...