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Ferrari’s chief executive Benedetto Vigna on Feb. 14 visited the headquarters of electric vehicle maker Leapmotor in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou

Hangzhou, China-based tech firm DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model on GitHub and its website. It reportedly did so for less than $6 million using Nvidia’s less-advanced H800 chips, owing to the export restrictions the US put in place on high-performance computing chips to China.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. body which brings together climate scientists from nearly 200 countries to assess the planet's health, will meet in Hangzhou, China, next week to plan its next global report.

Alibaba stock (BABA) has rallied hard recently. It got a fresh boost ahead of the bell Thursday from a forecast-smashing set of results. Quarterly profit jumped to about $6.7 billion, the Hangzhou, China-based e-commerce company said.

For years, Shenzhen has been synonymous with Chinese innovation. The southern megacity - and the firms it has spawned over the decades - have become the indisputable champions of the country's drive for technological self-reliance,

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An amphibious spherical robot patrols the streets with police officers in Lucheng district, Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. Photo: Courtesy of Lucheng District Public Sec

China rejects dozens of trademark applications for the name DeepSeek, as Hong Kong sees questionable companies bearing the start-up’s name.

Chinese state-backed developers are starting to buy land at a premium again after the government eased limits on home prices to revive a slumping market that’s been a drag on the economy for more than four years.