This year’s biggest winners may have been China’s uber-wealthy business leaders, who amassed an astonishing amount of wealth despite the global pandemic. Many of them have fashion to thank for part of their fortunes.

Global brands need to up their game if they want to compete with fast-moving Chinese beauty players building billion-dollar businesses that are fine-tuned for the local market.

Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty, Drunk Elephant, Charlotte Tilbury and others are using a variety of tactics to bypass a Chinese law that mandates animal testing for foreign brands.

China's streetwear market is turning to women, Kim Kardashian is hoping to keeping up with the country's consumers, and Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was released on bail in Canada. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.

The world’s longest sea-crossing bridge could impact the region's retail and manufacturing sectors, Gucci and Zegna are victorious in their intellectual property disputes, and Bytedance is now the world's most valuable startup. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.

No one is pushing the country's fashion market further or faster than billionaire rivals Jack Ma and Pony Ma, the founders of Alibaba and Tencent.

BoF investigates how brands are leveraging WeChat’s mini-programmes to create dopamine-fuelled shopping experiences that are viral, interactive and hyper-social.

Alibaba switches focus to brick-and-mortar shops in the department store sector as part of global expansion, weeks after Amazon closes deal with Whole Foods Ltd.