Stressing science education, China is outpacing other countries in research fields like battery chemistry, crucial to its lead in electric vehicles.

The solar sector shows how China conducts industrial policy: It chooses industries to dominate, floods them with loans and lets companies fight it out.

The central bank lowered a key rate in its latest effort to steady China’s economy, as Asian stock markets followed Wall Street down.

It was the second such rain-related disaster in less than three months, as extreme weather challenges the country’s extensive network of newly built expressways.

After a strong start to the year, spending has weakened as a real estate downturn weighs on consumers and companies. Communist Party leaders are meeting...

China’s factories have begun an export blitz, prompting worries around the world about the effect on economies elsewhere.

The European Union took the next step toward collecting heavy tariffs on electric vehicles, ahead of a final decision in October.

China’s leaders vowed to kick-start spending by offering subsidies for households to buy cars and appliances. But many consumers aren’t biting.

As the European Union moves to impose tariffs on Chinese cars, Germany, with an auto industry deeply enmeshed with China, is stuck in the middle.

Acting quickly after the European Union imposed extra tariffs of up to 38 percent on China’s electric cars, Beijing opened a trade case on Europe’s...