The wide gulf in average annual wages between China’s private and non-private sectors continued to expand in 2025, while regional disparities also remained stark, with Tibet continuing to outshine some coastal provinces in income levels. The findings, based on the latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics this week, underscore the yawning sectoral and regional divides in the world’s second-largest economy. Workers in China’s non-private sector – including government and...

China’s energy security, now buttressed by internal resilience, has withstood a difficult test from the protracted war in the Middle East, says the head of a global energy industry body. “China has domestic production, it has developed a diversification policy and there is also the possibility to switch around different types of energy,” Andrea Stegher, president of the International Gas Union (IGU), told the South China Morning Post on Tuesday. Stegher said the world’s second-largest economy...