In the 1950s and ’60s, military bands toured China, part of an effort by the People ... implications of taking up Western instruments like the guitar or piano. Although Shen entered the factory at the ...

Chengdu designer Yann Pu’s work strikes a balance between poles like handcrafted versus factory-produced, or local scale ...

Efforts by the Beijing-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC, to break through innovation ...

HONG KONG -- China's manufacturing activity returned to expansion in August, a widely watched private survey showed on Monday even as the official reading pointed to a deeper contraction.

China's industrial output growth slowed to a five-month low in August, while retail sales and new home prices weakened ...

But with rising wages and an aging population, industrial robots are increasingly common on the country’s factory floors. Now, China wants to produce those robots, too. Being the world’s ...

India's push to become a factory titan has hit a snag: to become a credible alternative to China for global firms, it first ...

Armed with cheap and docile labor, China has steadily increased exports, taking on the role of the global factory since joining the WTO in December 2001, and it has also increased imports by ...

A key measure of China's factory activity dipped again in November, according to the latest official figures. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 48, down from 49.2 in October.

China’s factory activity contracted for a fourth straight month in August, the latest sign the world’s No. 2 economy may struggle to meet this year’s economic growth target. The official ...