If you are feeling dispirited at work or burned out by the general pressure of life, there is a perfect word for you: "involution." The Mandarin Chinese word for "involution" — neijuan — is now a ...

What will truly shape the industry's landscape over the next five to ten years is not who moves the fastest, but who can move more steadily and endure longer in an increasingly complex environment.

The word “involution”, or neijuan – referring to excessive competition in social and economic life – has become a common slang term in China. Students, workers and even business leaders have been ...

Covid, hawkish policy stance is unwinding, and history suggests that this phase of the cycle tends to reward investors who move early rather than wait for consensus comfort.

THIS is one of the books that most people would be glad to lay aside, and, indeed, it is very difficult to say with what object it has been written. The cycles decribed have nothing to do with ...

Abstract: Currently, on the Chinese internet, the term “involution” refers to intense but meaningless competition for limited resources, also known as “the inflation of effort.” Involution is a ...

Employees work on the production line of a factory in Ningde, Fujian province, in May. Wang Wangwang / For China Daily Editor's Note: Since 2025, "anti-involution" has become a focus of China's ...

Export-bound vehicles awaiting shipment in Lianyungang Port, Jiangsu province. WANG CHUN/FOR CHINA DAILY BEIJING -- China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Saturday it will ...

Abstract: With the advent of the era of Industry 4.0 and the continuous development of point cloud data acquisition technology, point cloud data have been widely used in the unmanned distribution of ...

December 24, 2025 • Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic ...