Insiders say there's a silver lining to stagnant box office takes in 2016. Box office takes for China's film industry remained stagnant in 2016, but most industry insiders see it as a blessing in disguise. Last year's box-office total was ...
Tags: Film Industry, Turning Point
China Investment Corp chief says it is seeking Belt and Road opportunities China's $800 billion sovereign wealth fund aims to be a long-term investor in international investments and increase its close work with partners to seek ...
Tags: Belt and Road, Long-Term Investor
Despite the global economic slowdown and tougher competition to attract capital, Shanghai attracted $18.5 billion in overseas investment in 2016, marking the 17th consecutive year of growth. According to official figures released by the ...
China will permit foreign firms to be listed on domestic stock exchanges to expand their financing channels, an official said Friday. The firms will be able to go public on the main board, the SME board, the ChiNext board and debut on the ...
Online retail volume of China's farm produce is expected to grow by about 50 percent in 2016 as more farmers use e-commerce platforms to sell their produce. Online produce sales might reach 220 billion yuan ($32 billion) this year, up ...
Tags: Farm Produce, Agriculture
China plans to seal free trade agreements with 40 percent of the countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017, officials said on Tuesday. The nation had already established FTAs or is in talks with 25 countries and ...
Tags: FTA, Belt and Road
China's manufacturing activity expanded for a fifth month in December. The manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) came in at 51.4 in December, lower than 51.7 in November and staying above the 50-point boom-bust line for the fifth ...
Tags: Manufacturing Activity, PMI
At the Peking University SOE Forum held in Beijing on Wednesday, China’s energy experts and scholars pointed out that the development of natural gas as an energy alternative to curb air pollution is crucial to China’s future ...
Tags: Natural Gas, energy
Automobile sales are expected to slow next year after a boom in 2016, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. Growth in auto sales in 2017 could slow to an annual 2 percent to 6 percent, said MOC spokesperson Shen Danyang, citing ...
Tags: Automobile, Car Sales
China's National Energy Administration (NEA) announced to receive additional capacity target for PV projects for 2016, filed by provinces, region, or municipality by up to 1GW each, in order to cope with surge in such projects as a result ...
Tags: PV projects, PV
If you couldn't justify spending the money to replace your old iPhone with an iPhone 7, you're not alone. And if you feel somewhat left out because of it, you're also not alone. Giving your old phones an iPhone 7 makeover is reportedly on ...
Remember the black MacBook that was on sale from 2006-2008? It was the first Mac I'd ever considered buying. It made the company look like a rebel at a time when Apple was anything but. (It was during the height of the "Apple white" design ...
During its MacBook event today, Apple announced single sign-on (SSO) for Apple TV apps will be included with a new "TV" app that bundles all TV content into one place. The app will be available for Apple TV and iOS devices. Now, instead ...
Tags: MacBook, Apple, Apple TV apps
They came for the optical drive. They came for the headphone jack. And now, Apple is changing the keyboard on the MacBook Pro, too. Those deep, comfy Chiclet-like keys are being replaced by a thin, shallow keyboard, one that probably feels ...
Tags: Apple, headphone jack, MacBook Pro
Apple's revamped line of MacBook Pro laptops -- its first major update in more than four years -- will keep the standard headphone jack as one of the ports. That means you'll be able to plug in any pair of headphones -- except for Apple's ...
Tags: Apple, MacBook Pro, iPhone 7