China Report Magazine

28 April 2025

AI, new tech and domestic consumption, a roundup of the bold vision for economic, trade and foreign policies, strategies and proposals as set during the annual national congress, to stablise growth and withstand external turbulence (p.20-23), plus China’s top diplomat pledges certainty amid the increasingly unpredictable world (p.24-27). Trapped between zero carbon goals and declining demand, can the steel industry be saved by hydrogen (p.36-40)? Like many in the West, Chinese puritans are worried internet slang and social media memes are downgrading people’s linguistic and cognitive capabilities (p.53-55).