There is something of a celebration going on over in China. For the country has now worked out how to make a ballpoint pen. No, really--this is being touted as a victory. The point (sorry) being ...

Only Switzerland, he said, has a machine with the precision required to make the best ballpoint pen tips. China, Qiu said sadly, hasn’t developed a machine like this.

Until now. China, while being the world’s biggest manufacturer of ballpoint pens, has not been able to manufacture the pen tips without relying on foreign imports.

Why MAGA Wants to Make Mexican Coke in the US Ballpoint pens aren't actually new to China. Its 3,000 pen manufacturers make around 40 billion of them a year and fulfill 80 percent of the world's ...

China's inability to produce a complete, high-quality ballpoint pen came to widespread attention in 2015, when Prime Minister Li Keqiang singled out the products at a seminar in Beijing, noting ...

Despite making almost 40 billion ballpoint pens a year, until recently China was struggling to manufacture one component domestically. WSJ explains what made it so difficult. Illustration: Menglin ...

Premier Li Keqiang has lamented China’s inability to “make ballpoint pens with a smooth writing function.” After five years of research, a state-owned steel company now says it can.

Without this technology, China's pen manufacturers, which produce 38 billion ballpoint pens per year, have had to purchase the crucial component from overseas markets, costing the industry $17.3 ...

“ China’s scientists are so damn lovable. Rebel Pepper marvels at the juxtaposition of the ballpoint pen comments and the forced demolition deaths. “Please forgive my schadenfreude,” he wrote.

Company president Huang Xinghua says he’s heard Premier Li’s complaints about China’s dismal ballpoint pens. “I guess he must have used a crappy pen,” says Huang. “He was probably angry.