Frank Hossack

Ningbo overtook Dongguan as China's fourth-largest exporting city in 2024, shipping ¥945.5 billion of goods abroad against Dongguan's ¥889.7 billion, ending a run of more than a decade during which Dongguan had trailed only Shanghai, Shenzhen and Suzhou. 二零二四年,宁波超越东莞,成为中国出口总额第四大城市,当年出口额达九千四百五十五亿元,而东莞为八千八百九十七亿元;这也结束了东莞此前长达十余年、仅次于上海、深圳与苏州的出口排名。 Dongguan was...

Sun Yat-sen registered at a hotel in Japan in 1897 under a Japanese name a friend invented to protect him from the authorities hunting him; the surname on that hotel register, Nakayama, became his adopted name Zhongshan, and later...

This day, 27 September, in 1988, China successfully completed the test launch of a carrier rocket into a predetermined sea area. The launch vehicle for this test was a domestically-developed nuclear submarine. Accurately landing in the target area, the...

This day, 26 September, in 2017, President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 86th General Assembly of the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) held in Beijing and delivered a keynote speech entitled, “Adhere to Cooperation, Innovation, Rule...

Susu has sold wedding banquets at one of the biggest hotels in her small town in northern China for a decade, and every year the run-up to China's National Day holiday was her busiest season. This year, only two...

China's e-bikes are turning up in bike lanes far from home, quietly reshaping how people get around cities abroad. Manufacturers there exported 26.7 million electric two-wheelers worth $6.829 billion in 2025, with e-bikes driving much of that growth. 中国的电动自行车正悄然出现在远离本土的自行车道上，改变着海外城市的出行方式。2025年，中国制造商出口了2670万辆电动两轮车，总价值达68.29亿美元，其中电动自行车是增长的主力。 Walk along...

This day, 25 September, in 1972, Japanese Prime Minister, Kakuei Tanaka, visited China, whereafter the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement was signed, announcing, “The abnormal state of affairs between the People’s Republic of China and Japan has ended. ... The Japanese...

Chinese robots are moving out of viral clips and onto real shop floors, but first they graduate from an unglamorous kind of school. Near Beijing's Shougang Park, nearly 270 machines spend their days on chores nobody would normally film...