American buyers rushed to stockpile Chinese goods before Donald Trump returns to the White House with a threat to impose tariffs of between 10 and 60 percent.

Under leader Xi Jinping, the ruling Communist Party is promoting upgrading of factories and a shift to more high-tech manufacturing. The report Monday said China’s export of mechanical and ...

In a year, China had added the equivalent of a medium-sized country to its already huge trade volume, he said. Notable too was the fact that high-tech products made up an increasingly large ...