Shanghai Lingang New Area: it is planned to achieve a year-on-year increase of 25% in regional GDP in 2022

Chinese Restaurant Brands Going Global: What Keeps Customers Coming Back After the Opening?

How long can the queues outside a brand’s first overseas store last? And how many customers drawn in by the novelty will become regulars? For Chinese restaurant brands expanding internationally, opening a store is only the beginning of the challenge of building a local business and retaining customers.

Beyond the Car: China’s Next Wave of Intelligent Hardware

The next chapter for intelligent vehicles is unfolding both inside and beyond the car.

Taobao Takes Double 11 to 20 Overseas Markets, Adding Free Shipping and More Than 1.2 Million Merchants

Taobao plans to run this year’s Double 11 shopping festival across 20 overseas markets, with free-shipping offers in 13 countries and regions and more than 1.2 million Taobao and Tmall merchants participating, the company said on September 21. The campaign extends the platform’s international push beyond small parcels, with furniture and home-improvement goods among the medium and large items it aims to ship directly overseas.

Gaolan Port Ships First Containerized BYD Dolphin Export to Brazil

Zhuhai’s Gaolan Port shipped its first batch of containerized new energy vehicles to Brazil on September 22, opening a two-voyage project planned to move 2,807 BYD Dolphin electric cars to the port of Vitória. The first sailing carried 1,408 vehicles. The project’s total cargo value is about CNY 290 million, according to local reports.

TikTok Shop Plans UK–EU Cross-Border Expansion, With Wider Access Scheduled for October

TikTok Shop, the e-commerce business of ByteDance（字节跳动）, has scheduled a cross-border selling pilot for selected UK and EU merchants from September 21, 2026, with broader availability planned for October 19. The expansion is intended to connect its British and continental European operations through shared seller-management tools, reducing some of the administrative work involved in entering additional markets.