The country’s central bank also freed commercial banks to lend more money in a package of moves aimed at rekindling growth in a stagnant economy.

China’s central bank announced a blitz of measures to support the country’s weakening economy and energize its moribund stock market, an unusually broad package that signals growing unease in Beijing after a run of downbeat numbers on jobs,

China has rolled out a raft of measures aimed at countering a prolonged downturn in its property market that is dragging on the world's second largest economy.

China said it will investigate US apparel maker PVH Corp. for suspected boycotting of cotton sourced from its Xinjiang region, a probe that could lead to punishment for the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein.

The U.S. PVH Group is suspected of violating normal market trading principles and unreasonably boycotting Xinjiang cotton and other products without factual basis, seriously da

The country's commerce ministry accused the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger owner of "unjustly boycotting" Xinjiang cotton without proper cause.