Factory activity in China unexpectedly returned to growth in November for the first time in seven months, but the gains were meagre with more U.S. tariffs looming within weeks unless Beijing and Washington agree to defuse their damaging trade war.

People in China are now required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of the country's hundreds of millions of internet users.

China raised $6 billion in its biggest ever international sovereign bond sale on Tuesday, as it pounced on the year's sharp dive in borrowing costs.

China said on Sunday it would seek to improve protections for intellectual property rights, including raising the upper limits for compensation for rights infringements.

"If we don't make a deal with China, I'll just raise the tariffs even higher," Trump says.

Samsung's plan to outsource a fifth of its smartphone production to China next year may help it compete with low-cost rivals such as Huawei and Xiaomi but it's a strategy fraught with risks, people with familiar with the move said.

Huawei's foldable smartphone, the Mate X, has, briefly, gone on sale in China.

China has announced a curfew on online gaming for minors among new measures aimed at curbing video game addiction.

ASML, Europe's largest manufacturer of specialized chipmaking machines, has fallen prey to Washington's desire to curb Beijing's technological ascent and delayed shipment of a crucial tool needed to develop China's semiconductor industry.

China is studying the application of blockchain and artificial intelligence in cross-border financing with a focus on risk management, and will further liberalize its capital markets, a senior foreign exchange regulator said on Sunday.

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed four pieces of legislation taking a hard line on China, three related to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and one commending Canada in its dispute over the extradition of a Chinese telecom executive.

The producer price index (PPI), considered a key barometer of corporate profitability, dropped 1.2% year-on-year in September, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data showed on Tuesday.

China's Huawei Technologies is ready to enter into a "no backdoor" agreement with India to allay security concerns, the telecom group's local head said on Monday, as the giant South Asian country prepares to launch next generation 5G networks.

Microsoft does more research and development in China than it does anywhere else outside the United States. But, as US-China relations continue to sour on issues of trade and cyber-security, the decades-long ties Microsoft has in China are coming under close scrutiny.

In late September, electronics distributor Avnet Inc. formed an alliance with e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to boost its online capabilities in China. E-commerce shopping sites such as Amazon and Alibaba, which sell electronic devices and components, are considered distribution's competitors. The announcement stirred up a lot of interest in the electronics industry.

Just a few years ago, one in every five smartphones sold in China was made by Samsung. How times have changed.

Chinese officials are growing hesitant to pursue a broad trade deal with the U.S. in negotiations set to begin this Thursday, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.

Samsung Electronics has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the world's biggest smartphone market.

China's central bank has approved PayPal's acquisition of a 70% equity interest in GoPay, the companies announced Monday.

"For years, Silicon Valley looked down on China tech and believed it was only copying. But today, there is awareness that China is innovating and getting ahead in certain tech arenas," says Rebecca Fannin, author of "Tech Titans of China."

There will still be a human operator onboard, but Baidu says these autonomous cars are Level 4.

Alibaba unveiled its first chip to power artificial intelligence (AI) processes called the Hanguang 800.

China needs to develop a better system for financing small businesses that drive innovation in the economy but currently struggle to access the funds they need for growth, a leading Chinese think-tank said in a report published Sunday.

Beijing hopes its social credit system will use vast troves of data to quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing. U.S. firms could get hit, too.

China's search engine giant Baidu said on Tuesday it will invest 1.44 billion yuan ($202 million) in artificial intelligence firm Neusoft Holdings.

Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn on Monday rebutted allegations of lapses in people management leveled by a non-profit monitor of worker rights, though confirmed they employed too many temporary workers.

Microsoft's most powerful executive has said US President Donald Trump's treatment of China's telecoms giant Huawei is unfair and un-American.

The ISM U.S. manufacturing PMI declined to 49.1% in August, the lowest reading in more than three years.

The United States and Poland believe suppliers of 5G network equipment should be rigorously evaluated for foreign government control, a joint declaration signed on Monday said, as Washington pressures allies to exclude China from 5G networks.

China has lodged a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over U.S. import duties, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said on Monday.

China's massive manufacturing industry unexpectedly expanded last month, according to a closely watched private survey. But the country's economic outlook is still cloudy as the US-China trade war intensifies.

China plans to provide more support for its economy, including investing in infrastructure projects and regional development, while maintaining a prudent monetary policy with "reasonably" ample liquidity, the State Council said on Sunday.

Musk's presence at the important Beijing-endorsed AI symposium lends credence to China's vision of becoming the world leader in the technology by 2030 and comes as Donald Trump wages a campaign to rein in the world's No. 2 economy.

China's central bank will launch a state-backed cryptocurrency and issue it to seven institutions in the coming months, according to a former employee of one of the institutions who is now an independent researcher.

China's Huawei has begun talks with Russia about installing Russian operating system (OS) Aurora on 360,000 of its tablets to conduct Russia's population census next year, two sources told Reuters.

Google announced Thursday that it had disabled 210 YouTube channels that were uploading videos "in a coordinated manner" about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.

President Trump told reporters on Sunday that Apple CEO Tim Cook privately made a "very compelling argument" that the administration's tariffs on Chinese-assembled goods have made an unfair impact on the California-based tech giant, because its chief rival, Samsung, has conducted most of its manufacturing in South Korea and did not have to pay the levy.

Saudi Arabia's crude shipments to China have doubled in the span of a year. During the same period, its oil exports to the U.S. have dropped by nearly two-thirds.

Japan has $1.12 trillion Treasury securities, and China, $1.11 trillion.

Industrial production in China grew just 4.8% in July compared to a year earlier, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. That's the worst growth for that sector in 17 years.