China's major industrial firms saw stronger profit growth in the first ten months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics(NBS) said Monday.

Self-driving vehicles still have a long way to go before they can reach the mass production stage or be used commercially on a large scale due to safety concerns, although such cars have become the development trend, experts say.

The central government is planning to set up a special fund of up to 100 billion yuan to accelerate mixed-ownership reform by the first half of next year.

Chinese State-owned enterprises (SOEs) continued to see rapid profit growth in the first 10 months of the year as the economy held steady, official data showed Tuesday.

China reaffirmed its status as a world leader in the financial technology industry when it secured five of the top 10 places in a ranking of the sector’s best-performing companies of 2017.

A delegation led by Chu Junwei, a top official from Shunyi district in Beijing, visited Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (E-town) on Nov 6, according to local media.