China’s provinces and local governments enjoy a high degree of autonomy and this extends to their financing. Local government has the right to raise its own funds through the direct issuance of bonds.

Relations between Russia and China are indeed closer than at any point since the 1950s, but they are shaped more by pragmatism, economic necessity and shared opposition to Western influence than ...

Signals from the broader Chinese art market aren’t particularly reassuring either. China’s total auction sales dropped 46.1 percent in 2024 to $1.9 billion, down from $3.49 billion in 2023 ...

Chinese landscape painting has been passed down for thousands of years, following its own unique artistic principles. China Daily invites Russian contemporary artist Anna Kazmina to explore this ...

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Latest news, features and opinion on China’s technology industry, including AI, the US-China tech war, 5G, smartphone makers and apps, and issues surrounding China’s Great Firewall.

Castiglione, who lived for many decades in China before his death ... and it was under Qianlong that he became the court's favored artist.

Our art critic goes room-by-room through New York’s Gilded Age house museum, reopening after nearly five years. Don’t miss the new upstairs galleries. This week in Newly Reviewed, Seph Rodney ...

Qumu Shiwu, a representative inheritor of the Yi ethnic group's lacquerware craftsmanship ... making it a spotlight at the Ancient China galleries, a long-term exhibition of the National Museum.

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