Service robot: Zhou Fengyu (right), director of Shandong University's Cloud Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, displays newly developed robots that can help the elderly detect intruders, gas leaks and other dangers. The robot is expected to be on the market by year's end at an affordable price. Wang ...

On her way from Xuzhou high-speed railway station to the hotel, Kee Wei Sin was shocked by what she saw. "There were so many trees of so many different colors outside the bus," said the Malaysian national, who was on her first visit. "The 30-minute route impressed me a lot. Such picturesque views ca...

Companies and marketsJD takes stake in a software companyJD.com, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is taking a 10 percent stake in software firm Kingdee International Software Group Co Ltd, an investment holding company, for HK$1.3 billion ($167.71 million) in a deal that could see JD enter the software...

"I realized that it was easy to sell goods on the Internet," Sun said. "I felt like a new world had opened for me." Several months later, after visiting IKEA Shanghai with his wife, Sun decided to invest in the furniture business. "The structures of the furniture there were not complicated," said Su...

'One Belt, One Road' initiatives offer hope to firms like Zoomlion amid stagnant sales in domestic marketPlans by China's leaders to revive ancient intercontinental land routes and develop maritime links are being seen by many makers of heavy machinery as the key to survival in a brutally competitiv...