Echo Huang

One of China’s biggest electric car makers is increasingly looking for business outside China.

In the 1990s, oil companies and and car makers once worked together to scupper the electric vehicle industry in the US, according to the documentary Who Killed the electric car? about America’s first mass-produced electric car. That was the EV1, which General Motors rolled out in 1996, and terminated just a few years later.

People in China may soon be free to have any number of kids they want after four decades of strict limits. Yet makers of diapers, infant milk and other children’s products may not see the sustained baby boom they’re hoping for.

Neil Armstrong walked on the near side of our moon half a century ago. On Monday, China’s embarked on the first step of a mission to probe its far side, and even more ambitiously, search for glimpses of the universe’s origin.

A Chinese double amputee who finally made it to the peak of Mount Everest on his fifth try has won the hearts of Chinese internet users in awe of his bravery and perseverance.

When a female passenger was murdered last week, the backlash against Didi Chuxing was swift, prompting the Chinese ride-hailing giant to apologize and temporarily shut down one of its carpooling services so it could review how it could make the platform safer.

China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is suspending one of its ride services and promising sweeping driver checks and operation reviews after the murder of a female passenger this week. The announcement came after its initial responses—seen as gimmicky and insensitive—resulted in an online backlash against the company.

China has moved in recent months to allow autonomous car tests on city roads, and has said it hopes that smart cars will make up half of new cars on the road by 2020. That’s a goal that, for now, requires US and German technology.

Thanks to a methodically butchered rhino, we now know that premodern humans were active in the Philippines earlier than previously believed. Much earlier.

Scientists are scrambling to learn why the distinctive black patches around the eyes of giant pandas are fading away in some animals.

A Labor Day celebration display created by over a thousand drones dotting the night sky in the Chinese city of Xi’an should have been a sight to behold. And for the 100,000 or so spectators, it was—but not necessarily for the right reason.

China’s top science institute is in trouble for mixing science with religion.

The cartoon character Peppa has become an internet darling in China. But the country’s censors have taken notice—and, it appears, they don’t particularly like her.

In one of China’s most famous folktales, a woman named Chang’e flew to the moon after consuming an elixir of immortality, choosing to live in a lunar palace so she could remain close to her husband on earth.

The world is racing to put self-driving cars on the road, and outside the US, no country is moving faster than China. The nation’s tech giants and startups are both investing in automotive technology, and Beijing is accelerating that push through policy. In January, China’s top economic policy agency called for half of new cars on China’s roads to be partially or fully autonomous (link in Chinese) in two years.

Two decades ago, a 21-year-old college student at Beijing’s revered Peking University killed herself. Now her story has become a touchstone for students at one of China’s top schools, as #MeToo simmers at college campuses in the country.

A review of nearly 40,000 job ads posted in the last five years shows how blatant sexism can be when it comes to hiring in China—even on the part of some of the country’s most global tech titans.

To many, Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is the face of success. The 53-year-old shot to fame in India after he appeared in a Romeo-and-Juliet-like romance three decades ago. After a decade of movies, few as commercially successful as that one, Khan began producing and starring in his own films—and his career really took off, starting with the 2001 smash hit Lagaan, about a group of villagers who go up against their British colonial rulers in a game of cricket.

For a long time, there were only two options for foreign car makers who wanted to sell in China —pay a 25% import tax on your cars or partner with a local manufacturer entitled to an equal or controlling stake in your joint venture. Now China’s overhauling its investment rules for foreign car makers.

If there’s one thing China’s tech giants are known for, it’s their ability to venture into everything from social media, to online payments, to delivery services. The latest thing they’re all speeding towards? Autonomous driving.

Almost half a century ago, the first human landed on the moon, marking “a giant leap for mankind.” This year, China is sending seeds of plants and insects there.

The recent Uber and Tesla fatal crashes in the US don’t seem to have dented China’s confidence in self-driving technology. On the contrary, China is easing rules to make it easier for domestic developers of driverless cars to test and improve their vehicles in the real world.

In 2014, Tesla founder Elon Musk said that in the long run, a quarter (video) of the company’s made-in-California vehicles could go to China. Today, China is Tesla’s second-largest revenue generator, with some $2 billion in sales last year. It’s relying on China for nearly 10% of its revenue this year, according to Bloomberg.

China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is determined to rebalance its energy mix, and incorporate more clean energy. That determination is reflected in the money it put into renewable energy last year, dwarfing spending by the next biggest investor, the US.