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Chinese President Xi Jinping has collected titles, like commander-in-chief, to signify his ascendance as the country’s most powerful leader in decades. Now he is being hailed as its most thoughtful leader too.

The Chinese economy expanded at a robust 6.8% pace in the third quarter, meeting market expectations, as traditional growth drivers such as manufacturing and exports gained steam.

Opening a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress, Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled his ambition to shape the country far into the future as he set a new goal potentially achievable in his lifetime: to build a modern nation by 2035.

China’s primary social-media platforms—WeChat, QQ and Weibo—all announced system maintenance or upgrades on the eve of the 19th Communist Party congress.

China’s president is likely to emerge from a Communist Party congress that started Wednesday with all of the allies and authority he needs to monopolize decision making for the next five years. But will he step down in 2022?

Ever since China buried Mao Zedong four decades ago, conventional wisdom held that subsequent Communist Party leaders would grow weaker with each generation. President Xi Jinping has shattered that thinking.

A push by the Chinese government to ease local housing gluts and fill empty apartments is creating a different headache by driving indebted cities deeper into the red.

China reported a strong rise in both exports and imports in September, underlining the resilience of the world’s second-largest economy ahead of next week’s major Communist Party gathering.

China’s Communist Party expelled senior official Sun Zhengcai over alleged corruption and abuses of power just weeks before the pivotal leadership conclave where President Xi Jinping plans to bolster his authority.

Construction at the top of China Zun Tower, the tallest building in Beijing, has stalled because of government security concerns, according to people involved in its design and construction.

China resumed North Korean coal imports in August after a nearly half-year hiatus, just before a total United Nations ban on Pyongyang’s coal trade took effect.

China postponed for two years a regulation requiring certificates guaranteeing the quality and safety of all food imports, after pushback from the U.S. and European countries.

China’s Communist Party and President Xi Jinping have intensified steps to bolster party teachings and mute criticism on college campuses.

Beijing has set a goal of collecting and analyzing the genetic data from at least 1 million Chinese citizens to help unearth the causes of diseases from cancer to schizophrenia, and pave the way for targeted treatments.

China condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic-missile test but signaled reluctance to escalate sanctions, saying Beijing has made “enormous sacrifices” in its efforts to rein in Pyongyang.

China’s failure to bring air quality up to global standards is shaving years off the lives of its citizens: 3½ years on average, to be precise.

A Taiwanese human-rights activist pleaded guilty in a Chinese court to charges that he had plotted to overthrow Communist rule in China, a case seen as a marker of soured ties between Beijing and Taipei.

Wu Gan, an influential Chinese rights activist known as “Super Vulgar Butcher,” pulled off a rare act of defiance ahead of his closed-door trial where he was charged with subversion of state power.

After a record-breaking year for Chinese outbound M&A;, Chinese investors are facing wary regulators in foreign governments—and a Chinese government determined to control where they put their money.

China formalized existing measures that curb outbound investment in sectors such as property, hotels, cinema, entertainment and sports teams—but not in technology.

An earthquake shook a mountainous region in southwestern China near a famous national park, killing 19 people, injuring 247 others and knocking out power and phone networks.

China’s central bank is increasing its monitoring of the loosely regulated financial-technology sector—a major source of risk, given the enormous sums involved.

A Chinese court handed a four-year prison term to an activist known for documenting social unrest in China, closing a case that has underscored Beijing’s harsh approach to managing labor tensions.

China unveiled a new, more mobile intercontinental ballistic missile at a parade of advanced weaponry and combat troops, in President Xi Jinping’s latest display of military—and political—muscle.

China’s once-reticent citizens see their country as economically, diplomatically and politically ascendant—and the U.S. in decline. The phenomenon bolsters President Xi’s signature slogan exhorting the “China Dream.”