Fewer Westerners are working in major Chinese cities as high-paying jobs dry up amid slow economic growth, with living costs and China’s geopolitical tensions with the West also taking their toll.

As China’s metropolitans tighten their belts and cautiously spend amid uncertain future economic prospects, a more upbeat narrative is unfolding in the nation’s third- and fourth-tier cities.

More so than North Korea, China has expressed alarm over the Hyunmoo-5’s capabilities. Chinese state media, including the ...

In China's first- and second-tier cities, household leverage ratios exceeded 70 per cent in 2022, according to Wind, a Chinese data provider, while the ratios in third-tier cities stood at just ...

Until very recently, China’s young people, investors, consumers and creators flocked to just four cities: Beijing, the capital; Shanghai, a financial hub; Shenzhen, a tech centre; and Guangzhou ...

Many of the patterns evident in the data for this year’s Nature Index Science Cities supplement will be familiar to watchers of global science trends over the past decade. China’s research ...