China's economy is increasingly becoming a tale of two contrasting realities. While provinces driven by artificial intelligence, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and exports are experiencing rapid economic growth, regions dependent on tourism, real estate, and traditional industries are struggling to keep pace.

The latest provincial economic data highlights a widening K-shaped economic divide, with technology hubs such as Zhejiang, home to Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Unitree Robotics, outperforming the national average. Other manufacturing powerhouses including Shanghai, Anhui, and Shandong have also recorded strong growth, fueled by rising global demand for high-tech products.

China's K-Shaped Economy Deepens as AI Boom Widens Regional Gap

Shanghai has sent 12,111 people who were close contacts or people who had come in contact with COVID-19 positive patients to the province of Zhejiang, according to Xinhua press agency.

Shanghai moves a number of COVID-19 patients to neighbouring province of Zhejiang

The e-commerce industry in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has gained huge development in both sales and personal trainings since east China's Zhejiang Province launched its latest round of specific program to aid the region.

East China province helps Xinjiang make great e-commerce progress

Rescue and repair work is underway in east China's Zhejiang Province after super Typhoon Lekima landed there early Saturday, bringing about life-threatening rainstorms and floods. In Shanzao Village of Yongjia County, a Lekima-caused barrier lake burst killed 22, with 10 still missing, as of 20:00 on Saturday. The rescuers are continuing to race against time to spot and deliver the trapped people. A landslide blocked the rivers with a maximum 10-meter water level, trapping 120 villagers. Many of the houses along the river banks were damaged.

Rescue underway after Typhoon Lekima lands

The death toll from Typhoon Lekima rose to 30 in eastern China, local authorities said Sunday, as rescue teams worked to find more than a dozen missing after the storm triggered a landslide and forced more than a million people to evacuate.

Typhoon Lekima death toll in east China rises to 30

Torrential rain in east and south China has affected more than 1.63 million people, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Tuesday. Rainstorm which has battered Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces in east China, Hunan Province in central China, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China, Chongqing Municipality, Sichuan Province and Guizhou Province in southwest China, affecting the lives of 1.

Torrential rain affects over 1.63 million people in China

About 400 rescuers have been deployed to Sucun Village in Suichang County and 18,000 have been relocated

32 missing after typhoon triggers landslide in eastern China

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