​Shenzhen’s foreign trade reached 2.17 trillion yuan (US$302 billion) in the first half of this year, 9.9% of the national total, according to customs data released yesterday. Exports totaled 1.31 trillion yuan, and imports amounted to 858.86 billion yuan.

Shenzhen's commercial real estate showed mixed performance in the first half (H1) of this year — the grade-A office sector grappled with headwinds while the retail market demonstrated notable resilience.

China’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose 5.3% year on year in the first half (H1) of 2025 to 66.05 trillion yuan (US$9.24 trillion), the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday.

Shenzhen-based carmaker BYD has reached a new delivery milestone in Thailand as its local factory in the Southeast Asian country's Rayong Province celebrates one year of operation.

Emirates has officially launched a direct flight route between Shenzhen and Dubai, marking the airline’s first international route from Shenzhen.

Shenzhen-based BYD took delivery of its sixth vehicle carrier, the "BYD Changsha" yesterday, just three days after it received its fifth vessel, the "BYD Xi’an," on Sunday.

The cross-border Payment Connect service was launched yesterday, creating a new channel for real-time payments between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. The service enables secure, efficient, and convenient transactions for both residents and institutions.

At a factory in Shenzhen, workers are busy packing sleek, robotic coffee machines for shipment to Kazakhstan. It’s a scene that shows why their company, RobotAnno, has been operating at full capacity in recent months. The firm specializes in desktop robotic arms and AI-driven retail solutions.