China Business engagement report
@PDChinaBusiness - 865K followers on X
Measured over 73 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 10 interactions against 865K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 73 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 2.0K times each, and 0.512% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.226% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 73 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 21% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 60 interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post.
Measured over 73 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
China Business's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 33% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.001%, China Business sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 07:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 24, 20266.0x their median
China has recently launched a large‑scale project to recycle and reuse retired wind turbines in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, which involves refurbishing 25 wind turbines that have been in operation for more than 15 years, aiming to fill a gap in the country’s high‑value recycling and reuse of large‑scale wind power equipment. Traditionally, retired wind turbines are either sent to landfills or incinerated. The new project increases the material reuse rate of wind turbines from 30% to 70%, helping reduce pollution and save land.
- Aug 25, 20263.9x their median
China's first floating solar power plant built over a mine-water area has been powering green development in Lingwu, northwest China's Ningxia, since it was first connected to the grid in 2022. With a total installed capacity of 23 MW, the plant generates about 32.39 million kWh of electricity annually, saving 9,875 tonnes of standard coal and cutting carbon dioxide emissions by about 27,000 tonnes a year.
- Aug 25, 20263.4x their median
China's early rice output totaled 28.29 million tonnes in 2026, staying above 28 million tonnes for the sixth consecutive year, with the country's early rice planting area edging up by 22,000 mu (about 1,467 hectares) from the previous year to 71.164 million mu: National Bureau of Statistics
- Aug 21, 20263.4x their median
China launched the "Big Market for All: Export to China" Ethiopia Session on Wednesday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, as part of its effort to encourage and expand exports of Ethiopian products to the Chinese market. A total of 33 cooperation deals were signed between companies of the two sides, with a combined contract value of over $330 million.
- Aug 24, 20263.0x their median
China has recently made significant progress in key technology for rare earth detection, including the inductively coupled plasma tandem mass spectrometry (ICP-MS/MS) method for directly determining rare earth impurity content in high-purity rare earths. The technology successfully overcomes the limitations of traditional methods, which require prior matrix separation and suffer from high detection limits.
- Aug 24, 20262.9x their median
China's exports of surgical robots reached 480 million yuan (about $71.136 million) in the first half of 2026, increasing by 3.3 times, while the export market expanded from 23 countries in 2025 to 49 countries this year. https://t.co/rIB4xuYCIx
- Aug 28, 20262.6x their median
China's central bank has added 5 billion yuan (about $737 million) to its relending quota for agriculture and small businesses in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region to support disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction, the People's Bank of China said Thursday. https://t.co/0hVYzGQdqT
- Aug 27, 20262.6x their median
A robot enters a nursing home in Shenzhen - is it here to replace workers? Not quite. From therapy to daily care, robots are taking on repetitive tasks — so human caregivers can focus on what matters most. This is eldercare, reimagined. https://t.co/QUu4t40IBE
- Aug 21, 20262.6x their median
A cargo ship carrying Made-in-China vehicles and engineering materials departed Yantai Port in east China's Shandong Province for Ghana recently. The port has seen a surge in general cargo shipments to Africa, with the volume exceeding 6 million tonnes since the beginning of this year, a year-on-year increase of 66.1%.
- Aug 26, 20262.4x their median
From follower to trendsetter – How China is redefining auto industry China's NEV production and sales have ranked first globally for 11 consecutive years since 2015. Behind that run is a transformation seven decades in the making — from a country that once struggled to build its first car to an industry now helping redefine what the car of the future looks like. In the first half of 2026, China's NEV production and sales maintained strong growth, while sales in overseas markets surged 120 percent year-on-year. This year marks the opening year of China's 15th Five-Year Plan. Seventy years have passed since the first automobile of the People's Republic of China rolled off the production line at the First Automobile Works in Changchun in July 1956. From the determined first steps to change a reality in which China "could not make a single automobile, aircraft, tank or tractor," to the successive birth of the Jiefang, Dongfeng and Hongqi vehicles; from the difficult exploration of "trading market access for technology" after reform and opening-up, to the rise of globally leading technologies in the new era, China's auto industry has undergone a sweeping transformation that has redrawn the global automotive landscape and established a distinctive Chinese presence. In 2014, during an inspection of SAIC Motor, a major Chinese carmaker, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized the significance of developing products that cater to diverse needs and highlighted the importance of new energy vehicles (NEVs) in strengthening China's position in the automotive sector. Read Full: https://t.co/C8tGVGfh05
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 10 interactions against 865K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 73 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 2.0K times each, and 0.512% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.226% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 73 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 21% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 60 interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post.
- What is China Business's engagement rate on X?
- China Business (@PDChinaBusiness) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 73 original posts from the last 30 days against 864,889 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, China Business sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @PDChinaBusiness have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @PDChinaBusiness post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.53 posts per day across the measured window.