Science & Tech
How Fifty-Four Chinese Cities Built Metros
By the end of 2024 fifty four cities in mainland China were running some form of urban rail transit, according to the Ministry of Transport.
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Science & Tech
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze
China does not build small.
Science & Tech
China’s Private Rockets Bet on Methane and Reuse
China’s private launch sector opened with a 2014 State Council investment note, took its first orbital flight in July 2019 with i-Space, won the global methane-to-orbit race with LandSpace’s Zhuque-2 in July 2023, and is now closing in on booster recovery while state-backed constellations drive demand.
Places
How Chongqing Became a Province-Sized City
Chongqing is often introduced with a number that sounds impossible: more than thirty million people, an area the size of Austria, larger than many countries, skylines that look like science fiction layered onto cliffs.
Economy
Why China Tops the Container Port Rankings
Open a ranking of the world’s busiest container ports and the pattern is hard to miss. Shanghai sits at the top. Ningbo-Zhoushan, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Guangzhou and Tianjin fill much of the rest of the upper table.
Places
How Chengdu Became a Hub Without a Seaport
The standard story of China’s economic rise begins at the coast. Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta grew as workshops for Hong Kong capital. Shanghai rebuilt itself as a trading and financial gateway.
Places
How Dongguan Became a Manufacturing City
Dongguan sits on the eastern bank of the Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou to the north and Shenzhen to the south. Before reform it was a Guangdong agricultural county of paddies, orchards and fishing villages.
People
Wu Jing and the Wolf Warrior Legacy
In the mid 2010s Chinese cinemas were already crowded with imported franchises and domestic comedies.
Culture
How Ne Zha Remade Chinese Animation
Chinese cinema has produced many expensive spectacles. Few have changed what audiences expect from a Chinese cartoon. The Ne Zha films did.
Economy
How China Came to Export Its Excess Capacity
For two decades China has repeatedly built more industrial plant than its own households and builders could absorb in a normal year.
Economy
Baowu and the Making of China’s Steel Industry
China Baowu Steel Group made about 125 million tonnes of crude steel in 2025. That was enough to keep it first in the World Steel Association’s company ranking, roughly twice the tonnage of ArcelorMittal in second place.
Economy
How China Came to Dominate Rare Earth Magnets
When Western officials talk about rare earths, they often begin with mines and maps. China digs a large share of the world’s rare earth ore.
