DeepSeek is a cheaply built artificial intelligence language model which outperforms American versions in some measures

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Sunday held a symposium at the Great Hall of the People with representatives of foreign experts who have won the 2024 Chinese Government Friendship Award and those who are working in China.

This sends a clear message: China is waiting for the US to make an offer. Trump, for his part, has stated he intends to "fine-tune" relations with Beijing. Yet, his previous term and campaign rhetoric indicate a desire to curb China's development, particularly in advanced technology.

China is not seeking a trade surplus and is willing to import more competitive and high-quality products and services to balance trade, Ding Xuexiang, the country's vice premier, said on Tuesday.

China's fiscal revenue in 2024 grew 1.3% from a year earlier, slowing sharply from a 6.4% rise in 2023, finance ministry data showed on Friday, as a protracted property market slump and slowing domestic demand weighs on the economy.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of

Friday's debut of new pandas at the National Zoo in D.C. is the latest chapter in a long tale of "panda diplomacy" between China and the rest of the world.

The founder of artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek, touted as 2025's "biggest dark horse" in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena, emerged as the industry's new face in China at a symposium hosted by Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Monday.

China's leaders exhorted industry heads to turn their attention to the country's tech sector in the search for new drivers of economic growth, laying out priorities for the new year as the geopolitical landscape becomes more uncertain by the day.

China's relations are starting to improve with Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to the White House.

At gatherings including figures from tech, Premier Li Qiang urged the industry to serve as a source of economic growth.

Fiscal revenues in 2024 totalled 21.97 trillion yuan ($3.03 trillion), including 17.497 trillion yuan in tax receipts and 4.473 trillion yuan in non-tax income