Shenzhen, long the heart of China’s tech industry, may have a new rival as Hangzhou’s companies take centre stage. Will they compete or collaborate?

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. body which brings together climate scientists from nearly 200 countries to assess the planet's health, will meet in Hangzhou, China, next week to plan its next global report.

Alibaba stock (BABA) has rallied hard recently. It got a fresh boost ahead of the bell Thursday from a forecast-smashing set of results. Quarterly profit jumped to about $6.7 billion, the Hangzhou, China-based e-commerce company said.

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Ferrari’s chief executive Benedetto Vigna on Feb. 14 visited the headquarters of electric vehicle maker Leapmotor in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou

Hangzhou, China-based tech firm DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model on GitHub and its website. It reportedly did so for less than $6 million using Nvidia’s less-advanced H800 chips, owing to the export restrictions the US put in place on high-performance computing chips to China.

For years, Shenzhen has been synonymous with Chinese innovation. The southern megacity - and the firms it has spawned over the decades - have become the indisputable champions of the country's drive for technological self-reliance,

The southern tech hub has put out an ambitious plan to build up emerging industries like artificial intelligence in its 2025 work report.

By Eduardo Baptista, Julie Zhu and Fanny Potkin BEIJING/HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors.

From Beijing trying to reset relations with Tokyo to Hangzhou rivalling Shenzhen, here’s a round-up from today’s China and economy coverage.

Science-based policies and crucial contributions from countries like China were highlighted as key to the global fight against climate change at the 62nd plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which opened on Monday in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province.