Shanghai, China's commercial center with best urban scale and freight transport, tops the latest list of the best cities for business in Chinese mainland, according to Forbes China.

China's second-largest e-commerce player JD announced on Tuesday a strategic investment in Tiki.vn, Vietnam's leading business-to-consumer e-commerce platform, expanding its presence in the Southeast Asia market amid fierce competition from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Amazon.com Inc.

Car sales in China edged up to a record 28.88 million units last year－but the growth rate plunged to a meager 3 percent year-on-year, the lowest point in six years－according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

Technology and internet-based firms are eyeing the early-age foreign language education market as more Chinese parents nurse high hopes for their kids.

Hanergy, a multinational clean energy company, and BAIC BJEV, a leading new energy electromobile producer, signed a strategic cooperation agreement on thin film solar energy applications on Dec 15.

BAIC BJEV, the new energy vehicle arm of the Beijing-based automaker BAIC Motor, will introduce self-driving vehicles in 2019.