China's economic growth slowed to the weakest pace in a year in the third quarter, as a property crisis and trade tensions hurt demand, leaving policymakers with the daunting challenge of rebalancing GDP drivers towards greater consumption over time.

China's leadership is meeting to chart a policy course for the next five years. Beijing needs Chinese consumers to spend more, while at the same time, it is trying to keep up in a high-tech race with the US.

One of China’s most important meetings begins Monday, as leader Xi Jinping and other ruling Communist Party elites gather to map the goals for the next five years. The closed-door gathering — known as the fourth plenum — is expected to last four days and will discuss and put the final touches on China’s next five-year plan,

China’s Communist top party leaders are expected to meet this week to draw the next Five-year plan and decide on the world’s second biggest economy’s key goals and aspirations.

China's economic growth slowed to the weakest pace in a year in the third quarter, matching expectations, as a prolonged property slump and trade tensions hurt demand, keeping pressure on policymakers to roll out more stimulus to shore up momentum.

Airbus said on Wednesday it had opened a second assembly line in China, increasing manufacturing capacity for its best-selling A320neo family of single-aisle jets. The new line completes a jigsaw of 10 global final assembly lines that Airbus says will be involved in a production drive,

The country’s huge role in energy storage raises questions for US projects amid Washington and Beijing’s trade war