China's trade surplus will continue to shrink this year despite the fact that the September figure was the lowest since May, economists said.

If you were to bet on who is the wealthiest self-made woman in the world, you might be tempted to back the talk show queen Oprah Winfrey or Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, but the name at the top of the list in 2010 is Zhang Yin, the head of a Chinese recycled paper company.

Chinese companies are increasingly looking toward Europe to extend their business operations.

China's rich are investing more in equities than their Asian peers on average, with property purchases also being popular targets during the previous year.

Self-funding foreign students are set to become the largest overseas group in China, as the country plans to attract 500,000 of them in 2020, a senior official of the Ministry of Education (MOE) said on Monday.