New biz average 26,000 daily in 2025

China registered an average of 26,000 newly established enterprises per day in 2025, official data showed. A total of 25.74 million new businesses were set up nationwide last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. In 2025, the number of new foreign-funded companies in China totaled 70,392, up 19.1 percent year-on-year, the NBS data revealed. Investors from partner countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, including those investing via certain free ports, set up 19,756 enterprises in China in 2025, an increase of 14.7 percent from a year earlier.

Yuan weakens against greenback

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 8 pips to 6.9236 against the US dollar on Monday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.

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