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, meanwhile, are looking for novel ways to connect with customers in the country’s uber-competitive market. People are flocking to factory tours hosted by EV maker NIO, dairy manufacturer Mengniu, brewer Tsingtao and others.Xiaomi, a top phone maker that launched its first EV in 2024, began offering its public tours after receiving requests from customers.

Donald Trump was targeted in a shooting incident during a rally in Pennsylvania, Chinese online retailers wasted no time in offering souvenir T-shirts adorned with photos depicting the aftermath of the assassination attempt on the former president. According to a report from TOI, Taobao seller Li Jinwei said, «We put the T-shirts on Taobao as soon as we saw the news about the shooting, though we hadn't even printed them, and within three hours we saw more than 2,000 orders from both China and the US.» The rapid production and sale were made possible by digital printing technology, which allowed the T-shirts to be quickly printed and made available for purchase. Companies like Xinflying Digital Printing Production in Guangdong reported their capability of printing 8 election-themed T-shirts per hour using digital printing machines.

Bengaluru's Rameshwaram Cafe set to open from March 9 as probe continues As per the AFP report, explosions are common in China due to lax safety standards and poor enforcement. Last month, at least 15 people were killed and 44 injured in a fire at a residential building in the eastern city of Nanjing.

Xi Jinping in his younger days, standing with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. The image was reportedly captured during Jinping's first visit to the US in 1985.

Xi Jinping rarely bothers to glad-hand or to try charming a crowd. His public appearances in China are carefully crafted, with fawning cadres and adoring fans positioned around him. So, when Xi landed in San Francisco this week to meet with President Joe Biden, to try to stabilize a relationship with the United States that has been spiraling downward, it provided a rare opportunity to see the Chinese leader up close and, at times, less filtered than usual. There were a few moments when Xi turned animated — or the closest he gets to it — like when a group of Iowans he had met in the 1980s came through the receiving line at a gala dinner in San Francisco on Wednesday night.

northeastern China is threatened by flooding as at least 90 rivers have risen above warning levels and 24 have already overflowed their banks, state media reported Tuesday. Crews are standing by to defend homes and farmland across the Songliao Basin north of Beijing, which encompasses more than 1.2 million square km (482,200 square miles). The area includes parts of four provinces and several major cities with a total population of almost 100 million.

death toll from record-breaking rains across northern China rose to at least 78 on Friday, as authorities warned of more flooding and another storm approached the country. Deaths from flooding in Hebei province rose to 29, state media reported Friday, after Storm Doksuri, which hit mainland China as a typhoon two weeks ago, brought on the most severe rainfall since records began 140 years ago. Rescuers have continued to search for people swept away by the floods, as another storm, Khanun, approaches over the weekend.

earthquake struck eastern China in the early hours of Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with state media reporting at least 10 people injured and dozens of buildings collapsed. Videos on social media showed shaking light fixtures, trembling ground and people evacuating their buildings, with one clip showing people walking past bricks scattered on the ground.

BEIJING (Reuters) — China's direct economic losses from natural disasters surged to 41.18 billion yuan ($5.74 billion) in July, more than in January to June combined, driven by severe weather as two powerful typhoons hit the country in one month.

Floodwaters from Typhoon Doksuri continued to deluge farms and cities in northeast China into the weekend, with the country's disaster relief systems struggling to contain the aftermath of one of the strongest storms in years. Almost 15,000 residents were moved out of the city of Shulan in corn-growing Jilin province, where one person was dead and four others missing, according to state media. Rain has fallen continuously in Shulan since Aug.

Heavy rain and high water levels in China's northeastern rivers are threatening cities downstream, prompting the evacuation of thousands

China were threatening cities downstream on Friday, prompting the evacuation of thousands, although the country appears to have averted the worst effects of the typhoon season battering parts of east Asia. Hebei province surrounding the capital Beijing on three sides issued alerts for several of its cities. The province of Heilongjiang to the north, was evacuating entire villages in anticipation of life-threatening deluges.

The storms, which have killed at least 20 people and led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of residents, were the worst to hit China in over a decade, with Beijing experiencing its heaviest rainfall in 140 years. HOW SEVERE WAS THE RAINFALL? The amount of rainfall since Saturday has breached many local meteorological records. A reservoir in Beijing's Changping district logged a precipitation reading of 744.8mm (29.3 inches) between Saturday and Wednesday, the most in the city in over 140 years and far exceeding the previous record of 609mm set in 1891.

«The maximum (amount) of rainfall recorded during this storm, which was 744.8 millimetres, occurred at the Wangjiayuan Reservoir in Changping,» the Beijing Meteorological Service said. It was the «heaviest rainfall in 140 years», when Beijing records began, it added. The largest volume previously recorded was 609 millimetres in 1891, the service added.Storm Doksuri, a former super typhoon, swept northwards over China after hitting southern Fujian province last week, following its battering of the Philippines.

Beijing recorded its heaviest rainfall this year as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri passed through China's capital on Monday, forcing over 31,000 people to evacuate their homes in the city, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Heavy rain continued to fall in the capital as well as Hebei, Tianjin and eastern Shanxi as Doksuri dissipated over northern China, the China Meteorological Administration said.

By Liz Lee, Jenny Wang and Ryan Woo

The Chinese province of Hebei is attempting to spur digital yuan adoption by issuing residents central bank digital currency (CBDC) discount coupons.

China’s pandemic-hit economy needs all the help it can get after a surge in COVID-19 infections triggered mass lockdowns across the country. In an attempt to revive consumption, the southern city of Shenzhen used Beijing’s central bank digital currency, or CBDC, to airdrop free money to local residents. A similar strategy was used in the northern Hebei province, where even more digital yuan was deployed. Think of all the things governments can do when they have full control over fiat money on-ramps. 

BEIJING — Chinese electric car company Nio said Thursday it is gradually resuming production at a facility several hours' drive west of Shanghai, after temporarily halting operations due to the Covid outbreak.

China will allow overseas visitors from around the world to use its digital yuan for the first time at next month’s Winter Olympics, the central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has confirmed.