It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.

In the heart of Neijiang, a third-tier city in China’s Sichuan province, a queue forms outside a newly opened Starbucks. It’s not the first in town, but it’s the first drive-through. In a city known ...

The government had set out to slow speculation, kicking off a slowdown in real estate values that is still grinding on with wide economic consequences. A China Evergrande development in Beijing on ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Little more than a century after the widespread adoption of plastic, microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) have wormed their way into every ...

Huawei's Luxury EV Is Now Outselling Porsche, Mercedes, and BMW Combined in China. Here's the System That Made It Possible. Huawei's Maextro S800, a luxury sedan launched in May 2025 for around ...

THE FUTURE has already arrived in China, claims Lawrence Lek, an artist, in his influential video-essay “Sinofuturism”. The narration unfolds against a background of cityscapes and factories, ...

Kongjian Yu’s company is designing green spaces to absorb rainfall and mitigate natural disasters. In July 2012, a massive flash flood struck Beijing as rainfall in the Chinese capital caused the ...

As megacities slow, multinationals from Starbucks to Skechers are chasing growth in China's inland cities, where brand loyalty is strong and competition is thinner In the heart of Neijiang, a ...