China Business engagement report
@PDChinaBusiness - 864K followers on X
Measured over 107 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 864K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 107 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 15,519 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 704 times each, and 1.56% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.081% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 107 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 19% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 60 interactions, about 5.5x its own typical post.
Measured over 107 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
China Business's engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 62% 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 156,396 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.127% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 08:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 99% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 19% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 99% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 19% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 631 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Aug 24, 20265.5x 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, 20263.5x 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.
- Sep 8, 20263.5x their median
China’s imports and exports of goods totaled 34.78 trillion yuan (about $5.18 trillion) in the first eight months of 2026, up 17.6% year on year, 0.3 percentage points faster than the growth recorded in the first seven months, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Tuesday. In August alone, the imports and exports of goods grew by 18.6% and 21.7% YoY, respectively, registering double-digit growth for four consecutive months.
- Sep 4, 20263.1x their median
China has built the world's largest and most complete power battery industrial system after more than two decades of strenuous efforts, with leading technologies and output and sales ranking first globally for years, Wan Gang, honorary president of the China Association for Science and Technology, said at an industry conference on Thursday. The country accounts for over 70% of global output of new-energy vehicles, power batteries and key materials and it supplied about 70% of the world's battery materials and 60% of batteries, according to latest data.
- Sep 2, 20263.1x their median
The world’s longest undersea high-speed railway tunnel under construction in east China’s Zhejiang Province has achieved a milestone after a tunnel boring machine (TBM) reached a tunneling mileage exceeding 4,000 meters from the Ningbo side on Monday, leaving less than 1,000 meters remaining. Stretching 16.18 kilometers, the Jintang undersea tunnel features an 11.21-km shield section, which is being drilled simultaneously by two TBMs operating from the Ningbo and Zhoushan sides.
- Aug 25, 20263.1x 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, 20263.1x 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.
- Sep 4, 20263.0x their median
What Shenzhen's transformation reveals about the path to an Asia-Pacific community The transformation of a single city can reflect the prosperity of an entire region. As a window into China's reform and opening-up, Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong province has grown from a small border town into an international innovation hub over the past four decades. Its development has been closely intertwined with the process of economic integration across the Asia-Pacific. This year, Shenzhen will host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. In just a few days, a high-level media forum for Asia-Pacific will also convene in the city. A closer look at Shenzhen's transformation offers a vivid glimpse into the interconnected development and shared prosperity that define the Asia-Pacific region. Trade connectivity serves as a telling starting point. According to data from Shenzhen Customs, Shenzhen's imports and exports with APEC economies grew from 267.5 billion yuan ($39.81 billion) in 1996 to 3.13 trillion yuan in 2025, an average annual growth rate of 8.5 percent and an increase of more than tenfold. In 2025, distinctive products such as the "new trio" of exports -- electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic products -- as well as AI-powered products and medical instruments and equipment, accounted for 25.6 percent of Shenzhen's exports to APEC member economies. Read full: https://t.co/3rPLkzSlzL
- Aug 24, 20262.7x 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, 20262.6x 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
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 11 interactions against 864K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 107 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 15,519 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 704 times each, and 1.56% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.081% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 107 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 19% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 60 interactions, about 5.5x 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 107 original posts from the last 30 days against 864,437 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 156,396 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 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.63 posts per day across the measured window.