Kazakhstan's Ambassador to China, Gabit Koishibayev, confirmed that the extreme groups that Kazakhstan has been cracking down on amid domestic unrest run no risk of spilling over to Kazakhstan's border with China, and the government thanked China for providing decisive ...
At a time when global cooperation and help are most needed, many countries on the African continent are facing "vaccine nationalism" from the West. Several countries have been forced to discard more than 3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines ...
The ascension of leftist leader Gabriel Boric in Chile as the nation's new president in October 2021 was widely believed to represent a broader fast-rising left-wing political shift across Latin America, following the left-wing's sweep into power in Mexico, Argentina, ...
What is life like for the Afghan people after four months since the Taliban seized power of the country? A group of Chinese scholars and analysts concluded a field investigation and on-site inspection in Afghanistan in the end of November ...
Launched on October 23, 2018, the 55-kilometer-long Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which is known as the longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing in the world, links China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Zhuhai of South China's Guangdong Province and Macao SAR, and ...
With the upcoming 2021 Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) elections, it is hard to fathom how chaotic the past few years have been with opposition lawmakers using the filibuster and other malicious tactics to paralyze the legislature and causing ...
CanSinoBIO's COVID-19 vaccine can provide a decent level of protection against the Omicron variant, the Chinese vaccine company said, and the company can quickly produce vaccines targeting mutations if a new variant that can evade immune resistance built by current ...
Editor's Note:This year marks the 20th anniversary of China joining the World Trade Organization (WTO). But 20 years on, China-US ties are at a low point, leading some US scholars and politicians to reflect on "what went wrong" with the ...
Representatives from five Mekong countries applauded the Beijing Initiative raised by China that calls for further enhanced dialogue, technical cooperation, and information sharing on water resources in the Lancang-Mekong Basin at the recently concluded second Langcang-Mekong Water Resources Cooperation Forum. ...
The virtual "Summit for Democracy" held by the US kicked off on Thursday, but Chinese analysts said that Washington just exposed its shortage of confidence over its own political system since it dares not invite many countries, including China, to ...
Lifting the curtain of the long-prepared Summit for Democracy on December 8 amid its own issues, the US invited a batch of notorious buffoons, turning its summit scheduled from December 9 to 10 into a circus full of political clowns. ...
When Chinese agricultural experts visited Mozambique a couple of years ago, they found a lot of rich but mismanaged soil. Highly dependent on weather, the rice yield per mu was only 100-200 kilograms there without scientific planting techniques.
The eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia was once regarded as a "golden zone" in the world for wine grape growth with sufficient sunshine, little precipitation, a large temperature fluctuations, and low humidity. It is the fruit of the ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping said that climate change can well become a new highlight for China-US cooperation during a virtual meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden on November 16.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on phone as both sides prepare for a virtual meeting of Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden scheduled on ...
Explosions at the biggest military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed at least 25 people and injured more than 50 on Tuesday, deepened the international community's concerns over the security situation and stability in Afghanistan. Analysts urged the Afghan Taliban ...
Chairman Mao Zedong once said, "It was our fellow developing countries that 'carried' the People's Republic of China into the United Nations." The word "carry" aptly captures the profound friendship between China and other developing countries, especially those from Africa. ...
On November 15, 1971, headed by then Vice Foreign Minister Qiao Guanhua, the delegation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) made its debut at the United Nations (UN) Assembly Hall after its lawful seat at the UN had been ...
The latest real-world observation data in Chile has shown that the third shot of the CoronaVac inactivated COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac can clearly increase the strength of protection. Specifically, increased effectiveness against COVID-19 14 days after the booster shot ...
Hehrt curiously watches workers install a satellite TV at the hospital in which he works. He rushes to the TV and changes channels after it's been installed, and becomes very excited when there is a kung fu movie. “And it's ...
China's wisdom in minimizing environmental harm when building the world's longest sea crossing bridge, which runs across water that is the primary habitat for Chinese white dolphins, has served as a science-oriented inspiration for averting risks to marine life.
Minning, a model town that reflectes China's most successful poverty alleviation efforts through a pair off support scheme between east and west China, is in the spotlight again after China's recent emphasis on common prosperity.
China's first International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo kicked off on Sunday in Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with a national passion for world-class wine producing areas and a new bridge to worldwide wine lovers.
The world's first aerosolized inhalable adenovirus type-5 vector-based COVID-19 vaccine (Ad5-nCoV) is progressing well toward obtaining emergency-use approval, and it is expected to be in wide use soon thereafter with proven safety, more robust immune responses, and better effects as ...
The latest farce in which entertainers from the island of Taiwan, represented by Janine Chang Chun-ning (Chang), have been labeled as secessionists has exposed potential political maneuvers of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority who deliberately seeks to provoke, smear ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 21st meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and a joint summit of the leaders of the SCO and the Collective Security Treaty Organization(CSTO) member ...
In the final stop of his four-nation Asia trip, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday, with both sides agreeing to boost ties, and Moon called on China to continue ...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) council summit, to be held on Thursday and Friday amid the 20th anniversary of its founding, is expected to address SCO's past success in security and development of the region, membership expansion, as well as ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang urged a closer connection and stronger political mutual trust among Mekong countries amid challenges, including the uncertain world economy and the still rampant COVID-19 pandemic at the 7th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Leaders' Summit held on ...
China's first mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 production base located in Southwest China's Yunnan Province set up recently is expected to be put into use in October. The facility is expected to have an annual production of 200 million doses of ...
The withdrawal of the US military from war-torn Afghanistan has been widely seen as a failure in politics. However, analysts pointed out that the 20-year war means rather an "extraordinary success" for the American Military-Industrial Complex (AMIC) composed of private ...
Lab studies of China's booster shot continue to reveal promising immune efficacy, as the latest data show that taking a booster shot with CanSino's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine demonstrates an increase of at least 78-fold in average neutralizing antibody levels, with ...
Chinese researchers and drug manufacturers are among the frontrunners in COVID-19 drug research and development (R&D), and they are closely working with international partners, experts said, after Sinopharm revealed the world's first COVID-specific drug based on vaccinated patients' plasma at ...
The world's first COVID-19 drug based on human immunoglobulin developed from plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients will enter clinical trials, vice president of China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a Sinopharm subsidiary has said.
After twists and turns, the long-awaited BioNTech-Fosun COVID-19 vaccines reached the island of Taiwan on early Thursday, bringing hopes to Taiwan residents to build immunity barrier against COVID-19.
It is a serious misjudgment of China's strategic intention to say China aims to displace the US, Chinese Ambassador to the US Qin Gang said, stressing that China does not bet against the US but is glad to see the ...
The situation in Afghanistan has entered a crucial phase after the US pulled out most of its forces and peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government remain at an impasse. As the deadline of August 31 for the ...
The situation in Afghanistan has entered a crucial period after the US pulled out most of its forces and peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government are in a stalemate. In a recent exclusive interview with Global Times ...
One of China's most valued contributions to the global fair accessibility to COVID-19 vaccines is to enable more developing countries to hone their ability to produce vaccines by themselves, Zha Daojiong, professor of International Political Economy from Peking University, who ...
“How a Western ideology like Marxism can take roots and grow in an Eastern country and make the second largest economy even more prosperous than the Western country where it originated? There must be scientific and magical answers,” This is ...
A booster shot six months after the dose of CanSinoBIO's vaccine increased the level of neutralizing antibodies by about 8 times, the latest lab study shows, Zhu Tao, cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer of CanSinoBIO, announced in a forum on ...
China on Thursday vowed to make efforts to provide the world with 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines this year and donate $100 million to COVAX to promote global vaccine provision amid the rampaging Delta variant, which is bringing about ...
The island of Taiwan approved the emergency use of the BioNTech-Fosun COVID-19 mRNA vaccine on Tuesday for people over 12, the Global Times learned on Wednesday.
Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), underlined the CPC's leadership in military systems and achieving the centennial goal set for the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) prior to China's Army Day - the 94th anniversary of the ...
After being hit by four days of unprecedented torrential rain, the city of Zhengzhou, in Central China's Henan Province, suffered from an unexpected disruption of communications and Internet which almost collapsed the city of 12.6 million people who live in ...
The world's first aerosolized inhaled adenovirus type-5 vector-based COVID-19 vaccine (Ad5-nCoV), jointed developed by CanSino Biologics (CanSinoBIO) and researchers from the Institute of Military Medicine under the Academy of Military Sciences led by Chen Wei, was proven safe in Phase-I ...
The death toll from the subway flood tragedy on July 20 in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province, caused by torrential rain, has risen to 14 after two more bodies were found, the local government said on Tuesday. However, families of ...
The long dike breach along the Gongqu Canal in flood-stricken Xinxiang, Central China's Henan Province, has been closed as of Monday morning, presenting a turning point that will hopefully see the flood discharged in Xinxiang and neighboring cities like Weihui, ...
Residents in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province laid flowers to mourn the dead in the flooded line 5 subway at the line's Shakou Road exit. On July 20, an unusually heavy rainstorm in Zhengzhou caused 12 deaths in subway line ...
The flood-stricken cities of Xinxiang and Hebi in Central China's Henan Province are engaged in an intense emergency evacuation of residents from low-lying areas due to lingering and potentially perilous waterlogging. More than 1.71 million people, or about a quarter ...
At least 56 people were killed in the downpour and floods in Central China's Henan as of Friday and the rain-induced torrents still threaten Xinxiang and Hebi cities after the Weihe River and several reservoirs breached and overflowed, submerging fields ...
While storm-ravaged Central China city Zhengzhou downgraded its emergency response level on Thursday after days of rainfall subsided to allow the provincial city of Central China's Henan to clean up debris and mud, heavy rain continued to pound other parts ...
As the unprecedented heavy rainfall in Henan Province severely strained local disaster rescue capacity and central authorities dispatched soldiers and rescue teams, ordinary residents in Zhengzhou have been offering help to those struck by emergencies or in need, making themselves ...
Rescue workers transported relief goods to stranded people in an area flooded with deep water in Central China's Zhengzhou, late Wednesday night.
Death toll caused by the unprecedented heavy rainfall in Central China's Henan Province has climbed to 33, with eight still missing, local emergency management bureau said on Thursday.
The Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) self-aggrandizing attitude over the just-concluded vaccine deals for the island of Taiwan has been widely mocked and received severe backlash on the island since Monday.
The signing of a vaccine purchase deal between companies based on the island of Taiwan with Chinese mainland-based Fosun Pharm proves that smears claiming the mainland is preventing the island from purchasing vaccines were ill-founded, an official of the State ...
Shanghai-based Fosun Pharma has signed a deal with Taiwan-based Foxconn, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and a medical firm to sell 10 million COVID-19 mRNA vaccine shots to Taiwanhelp fight against the resurgence of COVID-19 in the island of Taiwan, ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, and the leaders agreed on upholding multilateralism and cooperation.
The plight of residents rushing to scramble for left-over COVID-19 vaccines in the island of Taiwan, due to scarce doses amid the still-rampant coronavirus outbreak, brought a new round of public lambasting against Tsai Ing-wen's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority ...
China's cyber watchdog asks APP stores to remove ride-hailing app DiDi Chuxing due to user data collection violations
The debut of an exhibition, held at the former Peking University's Red Building and depicting stories of how the way was paved for the establishment of the Communist Party of China (CPC), attracted on Tuesday 1,000 visitors who came to ...
The world's first trial results on minors aged 3-17 showed China's inactivated COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac had good safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity in youths aged 3-17 years, the Global Times learnt from Sinovac on Tuesday.
With the National Security Law (NSL) for Hong Kong having been enacted in the Hong Kong Special Administration Region (HKSAR) for a year, many ordinary Hong Kong residents have considered the law to be a "silver bullet" or a guardian ...
How does a Western drama master interpret the leading figure in modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun, and his depiction of the bygone China of the 1910s? The European theater giant and drama master from Poland Krystian Lupa gives his answer, ...
Descendants of the foreigners who had forged a close bond with China since years before the founding of the People's Republic of China like Edgar Snow recently visited Northwest China's Yan'an. Yan'an served as the base of the Communist Party ...
Hungary's parliament approved a government proposal on Tuesday to donate state-owned land to a planned Chinese university in Budapest, despite the country's opposition party's call to postpone the project for political gains. Chinese observers called the approval a positive step ...
After the World Health Organization (WHO) officially approved two Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines, South Korea became the first country to fully exempt travelers vaccinated with shots of Sinopharm and Sinovac from its original mandatory two-week quarantine starting on July 1, a ...
While people of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on Monday applauded the arrival of a batch of 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine made by China's Sinopharm, a storm of criticism and mockery swept the US Embassy after its announcement of 80 ...
The in-person meeting between foreign ministers of China and ASEAN countries scheduled to be held in Chongqing from Monday to Tuesday carries "special significance," as China and the bloc are set to have comprehensive discussions on jointly weathering the pandemic, ...
As the US keeps making promises without actual moves and India, a previous major global vaccine manufacturer, is struggling to fulfill their production contracts amid the serious domestic COVID-19 epidemic, China is taking the leading role to support the global ...
More and more Taiwan residents, including political figures are losing faith in the poor epidemic handling and the incompetent governance of the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority, which has also set ideological barrier to block cross-Straits cooperation as the ...
China's vaccine developer Sinovac is leading the initiative to develop the Chinese branch of the BRICS vaccine research and development center, a joint vaccine cooperation effort by the five BRICS countries.
Assistance from the Communist Party of China (CPC) in battling the COVID-19 epidemic, and China's steady support on challenges such as climate change have extensively contributed to the sustainable development of the Pacific region, representatives and senior politicians of 10 ...
College graduate Zhou Ying, 22, had never thought she would one day become addicted to learning about the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) through playing a mobile game.
The latest batch of 200,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines donated by China to Ecuador was shipped from a refrigerated storage facility near Daxing airport in Beijing early Wednesday. The consignment is expected to arrive in Ecuador on Saturday.
China is expected to produce more than 3 billion doses by the end of this year and become the first in the world to have administered 500 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines, despite temporary shortages in some places due to ...
After an in-person visit to China's reservoir and learning dam-building skills, the Mekong River envoys relay how infrastructure projects undertaken by China in their countries, especially hydropower projects, have served local people, boosting their wellbeing and socio-economic development along with ...
Brazil-based Butantan Institute who locally produces the Chinese-developed inactivated COVID-19 vaccine, in partnership with China's Sinovac, has confirmed the reception of a batch of 4000 liters of materials from China for the production of about 7 million doses of vaccine ...
Videos and pictures of long queues of people lining up to receive COVID-19 vaccinations during the late night in strong winds and heavy rains in both East China's Anhui and Northeast China's Liaoning provinces vividly illustrates that many Chinese people ...
With the G7 group urged by civil society organizations to share COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing technology and provide financial support to the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative, China is issuing more licenses to its global partners to locally produce Chinese-developed vaccines ...
In Southwest China's Yunnan Province, the reservoir of Jinghong Hydropower Station sparkled with green waves merging with the blue sky of late April when diplomats from the Mekong countries paid a visit. This gave them a complete new perception of ...
The Global Times reporter Hu Yuwei (GT) recently talked exclusively to the German-based vaccine developer BioNTech's CEO, Ugur Sahin (Sahin) who expressed his strong confidence in the marketing prospects of the vaccine in China. The approval has entered the final ...
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started a rolling review of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, the EU's top drug regulator announced Tuesday, and experts said that once the vaccine is approved, China will further fulfill its international responsibilities as a ...
Mekong River countries' diplomats expressed that they value the scientific, regulatory effect of Chinese dams on water resources, following their latest in-person visits to the main hydropower stations along the Lancang River, recognizing China's role in bringing practical benefits to ...
China's potential approval of BioNTech's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine has entered the final stage in decision-making processes, and the conversation with Chinese authorities is very "encouraging," German-based vaccine developer BioNTech's CEO Ugur Şahin told the Global Times in an exclusive interview ...
Recipients can accept a second COVID-19 shot developed using the same technique but by a different producer under special conditions, a Chinese health official said on Thursday, vowing to increase supply to ensure success of the injection of the second ...
The Global Times recently visited Tianjin-based CanSinoBIO's third production plant as it rolled out the latest batch of COVID-19 vaccines. The 15,000-square-meter plant complies with the international Good Manufacture Practice of Medical Products (GMP) standards and has an automatic line ...
The Global Times reporters Hu Yuwei and Bai Yunyi (GT) recently interviewed the Brazilian Ambassador to China Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita (Estivallet) to review remarkable moments in their joint fight against the coronavirus.
CanSino Biologics (CanSinoBIO) is expected to increase the annual production capacity of its recombinant adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccine - the only single-dose vaccine approved in China - to 200 to 300 million doses after its third plant comes into full ...
A Saturday commemoration of Ping-Pong Diplomacy was seen by observers as "more relevant" when China and the US have increasingly confrontational relations and "require flexible people-to-people exchanges" to retain positive exchanges and push forward cooperation, observers said.
As public trust in the Japanese government was shaken like the earthquake that hit Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, China's top nuclear scientist joined the chorus of criticism to express deep disappointment over Japan's recent decision to dump nuclear-contaminated Fukushima wastewater ...
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine co-developed by German-based BioNTech and China's Fosun Pharma can be rolled out in the Chinese mainland very quickly once it receives authorization, as key steps for mass production are close to ready, the Global Times learned ...
Fosun Pharm has submitted the clinical trial data of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine it co-developed with German BioNTech and relevant materials to China's state regulator for rolling review, a source close to Fosun told the Global Times on Sunday. This ...
China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine has 50.7 percent efficacy and has proved to be effective against the variants known as P1 and P2 that are prevalent in Brazil, latest data showed. Moreover, the Sinovac vaccine's efficacy rate can climb to 62.3 ...
On the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the ping-pong diplomacy, Chinese and US veteran table tennis players recalled the memories of the visit by US table tennis players to China in 1971 and looked back to how a bouncing ...
50 years after “ping-pong diplomacy”, Chinese player Zheng Minzhi and US player Dell and Connie Sweeris made a video call. The three old friends recall and share memories of the ice-breaking trips to each other's countries in the 1970s.
Gong Yunzun, Party chief of Ruili, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, has been dismissed from his post for serious negligence in epidemic control, where more than 100 local infections had been reported so far in the latest flare-up.
While some US political forces keep inciting hostility against China, and an inherited Sino-skepticism that has continually caused raising antagonism and discrimination against the Chinese, and by extension, other Asian communities, the Global Times found that there are many Americans ...
China issues Poverty Alleviation White Paper after declaring complete victory over poverty. It unveils what China and CPC can share in its innovative approaches and how it can cooperate with more countries in poverty alleviation.
China is running the world's largest nationwide campaign to encourage COVID-19 inoculation via creative, considerate, and non-coercive measures to persuade people to get vaccinated. Choices made by the public will be crucial in achieving the herd immunity goal of immunizing ...
The Indian health authority announced on Wednesday that a new "double mutant" variant of the COVID-19 has been found in the country, raising concerns over whether the unique variant would be more infectious and could reduce efficacy of existing COVDI-19 ...
China's leading vaccine producer CanSino Biologics obtained the national drug regulator's approval on Monday to start clinical trials of its latest recombinant COVID-19 vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) in inhalation form.
Shortly after European Union foreign ministers signed off on a slate of punitive measures on Monday over alleged human rights abuses, including sanctions directed at China, China hit back with tit-for-tat countermeasures by sanctioning 10 individuals and four entities that ...
As the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar urged measures to stop violence and punish the perpetrators who smashed, looted and burnt Chinese-funded factories in Yangon, some "NGOs," such as the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN), acting in the name of human ...
As one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers in China, Sinovac has expanded its annual production capacity to 2 billion doses and offered its inactivated vaccines to over 16 countries and regions. The Global Times reporters Hu Yuwei and Leng ...
On the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 falling on Wednesday, relatives of the missing Chinese passengers are planning to set up a foundation to offer rewards for continuing the search.
Zhu Tao, a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, proposed accelerating China's mass vaccination program to inoculate 70 percent of the population and achieve herd immunity by the end of 2021.
China's pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm will expand COVID-19 vaccine production capacity to 3 billion doses per year, becoming the world's biggest vaccine producer for the virus, Chairman of Sinopharm Group Yu Qingming told the media.
It is extremely unlikely that the death of a Hong Kong resident who received the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine is linked to the vaccine, and Hong Kong's vaccination program will not be affected as the incident was a mere coincidence, health ...
China is ramping up efforts to vaccinate 560 million people, or 40 percent of China's population, by the end of June, and another 330 million people will be vaccinated by the end of the year, covering 64 percent of the ...
While its own people in Texas are in dire straits amid an electricity-related crisis, the US has turned its attention to the Mekong water resource issue, while turning a blind eye to China's efforts to resolve the problems.
The virus vector used in the vaccine produced by Chinese company CanSinoBIO is safer for the human body and easier to produce, the company CEO said Sunday after China and the US both approved their single-shot recombinant adenovirus vector COVID-19 ...
The first batch of 685,000 doses of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine co-developed by Germany's BioNTech and China's Fosun Pharma arrived in Hong Kong on Saturday, the Global Times learned.
China's COVID-19 protein subunit vaccines have reported encouraging progress as a leading Chinese vaccine producer, Sinopharm, plans to bring its newly developed recombinant subunit vaccine candidate into clinical trial.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Gou Jinbo, who was spearheading the Chinese scientific team in Pakistan for the COVID-19 vaccine Phase III clinical trials, scoffed up a few dumplings and rushed back to the clinical trial site.
Pakistan became the first country to receive the third batch of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines, as it approved on Monday the final phase of clinical trials of the Chinese vaccines, co-developed by the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of ...
Chinese experts and netizens called on the WHO to launch probe mission on the origins of virus in wider scale across the world, especially those with evidence of coronavirus found earlier than the outbreak in Wuhan, after the WHO said ...
The migrant workers who stay in Beijing due to #COVID19 control measures celebrated Spring Festival with a community gala in Pi Village, one of the largest urban villages. They made dumplings, sang songs and read poems with their children to ...
CanSino's COVID-19 single-dose vaccine reported overall 65.7% efficacy at preventing symptomatic cases and 90.98% against severe disease in Phase III trials interim result.
While many central and western European countries, who put all faith in Western-produced COVID-19 vaccines, continue to scramble for scarce doses, those left behind have urged "it is time to trust Chinese vaccines." As Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia and Serbia keep ...
China's drug regulator has given conditional approval for the mass use of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, China's second COVID-19 vaccine.
Chinese pharmaceutical company Fosun Pharma, a partner of German Biotech company BioNTech, is on track to seek approval from the Chinese regulator for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in the Chinese mainland, Dr. Aimin Hui, President of Global R&D and Chief ...
The development of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may not have come so fast without the efforts of a scientist from China who has invested years in laying the groundwork.
Amid a white-hot global vaccine battle, where a row caused by the EU and the UK, and US pharmaceuticals over the delayed delivery continues to flare, another Chinese vaccine, developed by CanSino Biologics, which guarantees dual protection after only one ...
More than 80 people were arrested and 3,000 doses of fake COVID-19 vaccines were confiscated in a special campaign that China has carried out to crack down on vaccine-related crimes. The suspects had been profiting from the illegal manufacturing and ...
The AD5-nCOV vaccine candidate developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics has met its pre-specified primary safety and efficacy criteria at interim analysis, with no serious adverse events, and the company will continue to advance its phase III clinical trial ...
Rich countries have been accused of “modern piracy” after reportedly using diverse tactics to source life-saving COVID-19 vaccines. Recent quarrels over scarce vaccines bring back memories of the wrestle for life-saving masks in the early stage of the outbreaks last ...
Given concerns that wealthy states are fueling a gap in COVID-19 vaccine access around the world, rich states, which are jostling for early jabs, are urged to share, not hoard, at the virtual Davos Agenda 2021 summit of global leaders ...
What are the approval criteria for COVID-19 vaccines in China? Are Chinese vaccines still effective against mutant strains? How to view compliment, doubt and smearing over the safety and efficacy of China's vaccines?
Chinese drug authorities had obtained the final-stage data of Chinese-developed inactivated vaccines as early as late October, ahead of most countries, Shao Yiming, a leading expert advising on China's vaccine research and development, who participated in vaccine data analysis and ...
Chinese inactivated vaccines are effective for all coronavirus mutants spread to China from overseas in recent outbreaks, according to lab tests conducted by Chinese scientists, Shao Yiming, a leading expert advising on China's vaccine research and development, told the Global ...
Chinese inactivated vaccines are effective for all coronavirus mutants spread to China from overseas in recent outbreaks, according to lab tests conducted by Chinese scientists, Shao Yiming, a leading expert advising on China's vaccine research and development, told the Global ...
After a coronavirus strain in Beijing's recent cases was reportedly found to be the same as a variant in the UK, public concern arose over the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines, especially after scientists found that new variants in the UK, ...
While surrogacy services continued throughout the pandemic, the virus did bring about risks and even tragedy. Media reported that some babies born to surrogate mothers have been left stranded overseas due to lockdown measures.
Brazil has begun its COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Sunday with doses developed by Chinese producer Sinovac, soon after the regulatory approval for its emergency use, bringing relief amid a surge in cases.
Indonesian Ambassador to China Djauhari Oratmangun (Oratmangun) pinned hopes on Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines in a latest exclusive interview with the Global Times reporter Hu Yuwei (GT).
A video of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic welcoming the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines in the cold wind went viral on Chinese social media platforms over the weekend, touching millions of Chinese netizens who applauded Vucic's strong endorsement of Chinese ...
Brazil's health regulator Anvisa on Thursday urged AstraZeneca and Sinovac-Butantan to submit further documentation required for their COVID-19 vaccines' getting emergency use approval on Sunday.
Indonesian Ambassador to China Djauhari Oratmangun cast hopes on Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines on controlling the pandemic in Indonesia in an exclusive interview with the Global Times on Thursday, and applauded Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's pledge for ...
More countries announced they would purchase China's COVID-19 vaccines or start mass inoculations using them, as senior officials of various countries stressed the safety of the Chinese vaccines despite some Western media questioning their efficacy and safety.
China's CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac has been proven safe and effective after phase III trials conducted in several countries, boosting public confidence over its global rollout as Indonesian President Joko Widodo received his first shot of the CoronaVac ...
Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing severe and moderate infections, 77.96 percent effective in preventing mild cases, and has an overall efficacy of 50.4 percent in Brazil's final-stage trials.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday started his visit to Indonesia as part of his four-nation tour of Southeast Asia, which comes after Indonesia announced on Monday an emergency approval of a Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccine in ...
China has likely vaccinated more than 10 million doses in mass inoculation efforts for first high-risk groups so far, experts estimated, as health departments ramped up the national immunization plan, racing against infection resurgences in a number of provinces including ...
Chinese expert Tao Lina stressed that Chinese inactivated vaccines are safe and said VOA twisted his words to mean the opposite in its news article.
India expects to export its homemade coronavirus vaccines "within weeks" to satisfy the global market, according to media reports, which experts said could be a good news given India's competitive vaccine research and production capacity.
More Chinese cities have begun mass COVID-19 vaccinations after the New Year holidays as China has approved its domestically produced vaccine for general use and expanded its scope of vaccination during the winter and spring seasons with the country soon ...
With China's first domestically produced COVID-19 vaccine getting conditional approval for general use, local health systems throughout China have unveiled public vaccination campaigns starting with the high-risk groups, aiming to administer shots to millions of people before the travel rush ...
The largest COVID-19 vaccination site in Beijing's Chaoyang district entered the fourth day of its operation on Monday. It vaccinated more than 2,000 people on Monday, who were taken in groups to the site in minibuses.
China's capital city Beijing, along with East China's Shandong Province, has started its first round of free mass COVID-19 vaccinations for key groups amid sporadic cases. Beijing has set up 220 vaccination sites where more than 70,000 people have received ...
Chinese vaccine producers Sinopharm and Sinovac have denied selling unapproved vaccines overseas, after Japanese media accused China of seeking to expand its influence through smuggled vaccines, the Global Times learned from sources. Chinese experts slammed such allegations as coming "out ...
A Chinese vaccine expert predicted that China is likely to realize herd immunity by the end of 2021 after up to 1 billion Chinese residents, or 70 percent of Chinese people, are vaccinated.
China on Thursday officially issued approval for conditional mass use of the first homemade COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed by Sinopharm, marking a monumental step in the battle against the pandemic that has killed 1.79 million globally.
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the world, vaccines have become a life-saving straw that many people are eager to grasp. But at the moment, the availability is limited and the first batches are earmarked for those in the most ...
The United Arab Emirates has become the world's first country to offer Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines to all citizens and residents for free as part of its efforts to achieve nationwide immunity against the coronavirus.
China approved the country's leading vaccine producer Sinopharm's application for market rollout of its COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, which marks China's first approval for a vaccine to combat the coronavirus.
Sinovac Biotech Ltd may further optimize its vaccines in late-stage clinical trials and release efficacy data along with results obtained from Indonesia and Turkey in 15 days to meet the increasing international demand for its vaccines, Chinese experts said on ...
As European countries have ramped up their lockdown measures amid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases and the US broke the global record for daily new infections on Friday with more than 400,000 cases, China is moving on with vaccine research ...
As the world holds high hopes for a vaccine to emerge amid the pandemic, global biological and drug firms are racing on research and development (R&D) efforts and rolling out their products as early as possible, and the participation of ...
China is calculating how many people working in high-risk professions, including cold-chain, medical and port workers, will need to receive COVID-19 vaccines, health officials said Monday.
Chinese COVID-19 vaccines do not strive to be the first or the best, but that vaccine research and development should demonstrate a respect for science, health officials said Monday in response to concerns over China's vaccine R&D lagging behind in ...
China is calculating how many people working in high-risk professions will need to receive COVID-19 vaccines, health officials said Monday, as the travel rush of the Chinese New Year, also known as the world's largest annual human migration, draws close. ...
China's leading vaccine maker Sinovac is working around the clock to prepare for mass production, with the first production line to secure 300 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine annually, the Global Times learned after an exclusive visit to the ...
The Global Times reporters on Sunday visited the COVID-19 vaccine Beijing manufacturing plant of leading Chinese vaccine producer Sinovac to see how vaccines go through a complex packaging process - from vaccine bulk grouting to packaging - before they are ...
Chinese vaccines are gaining momentum as more countries order China-produced COVID-19 vaccines, with Brazil being the latest to put China's Sinovac Biotech vaccines into its national immunization plan.
China is preparing for mass production of COVID-19 vaccine, said national health authority on Wednesday.
Tangyuan county in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Tuesday opened registration for the public to sign up for two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines for 420 yuan ($60) in total, becoming the first region in China to officially open early ...
China has seen a nationwide logistics rehearsal to prepare for the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine mass use, as some leading vaccine producers have been conducting large-scale transport drills across the country since Friday.
Chinese-developed inactivated COVID-19 vaccine has 86 percent efficacy against the virus, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) health ministry said on Wednesday, based on their interim analysis of phase three clinical trials.
China's diplomatic style is increasingly more assertive and confident as it faces up against stigmatization and provocative behaviors from the West, even becoming more significantly active in condemning Western nations over blatant violations of human rights worldwide, but now the ...
As global vaccine providers speed up trials and various countries scramble to set up distribution, December has become a flashpoint for the global vaccine race as COVID-19 vaccine candidates approach the end of late-stage testing.
Brazil on Thursday received 600 liters of Chinese-produced COVID-19 inactivated vaccine concentrate, for S?o Paulo's plan to inject its state citizens in a mass vaccination in January. The vaccine will assist Brazil in its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, which ...
As more countries, including the UK, Japan and Russia, are eager to roll out massive vaccination programs to combat the deadly coronavirus, China stressed a scientific and diversified pathway to mass vaccination that can satisfy global criteria.
Amid an escalating war of words around a cartoon depicting atrocities committed by Australian soldiers against Afghan civilians, an Australian who has lived in China for 10 years has something to say: "Today, as an Australian, I feel ashamed. The ...
Chinese vice premier Sun Chunlan stressed a scientific and rigorous preparation is required for the mass production of Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines during an inspection tour of vaccine production lines of some leading manufacturers in Beijing on Wednesday, the same day ...
African and some Latin American countries would prefer Chinese-developed inactivated vaccines, due to their competitive costs and easier logistics, to stop their pandemic crisis, said analysts in both the vaccine and drug transportation services.
China made good on its promise to share year-round hydrological data on upper reaches of the Mekong River with the kickoff of an online information sharing platform on Monday. The platform aims to provide reliable forecasting and early warning services ...
China has always taken a responsible attitude towards the development and utilization of cross-border rivers, and adopts a policy that protection goes together with development, China's Embassy to India said in relation to China's Yarlung Zangbo River hydropower project ...
Diplomats from countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and representatives have acclaimed China's COVID-19 vaccines, expressing their confidence in promising results and expectations for further cooperation. The praise contrasts sharply with some Western media claims that Southeast ...
With Chinese President Xi Jinping crediting China-ASEAN relationship as "the most successful and vibrant model for cooperation" in the Asia-Pacific, the bilateral relations between the two economies will navigate toward a diamond decade after 10 years of "golden era" - ...
Southeast Asian countries envision greater involvement in China's development and look forward to working with the Communist Party of China (CPC) to promote regional multilateralism, said representatives to a dialogue between the CPC and political parties of Southeast Asian countries ...
November has witnessed an information explosion of global COVID-19 research and development. In the 16 days from November 9 to 25, three Western vaccine producers - Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca - have revealed their interim Phase-III clinical trial data, and ...
China's leading vaccine producer Sinopharm announced Wednesday that it has submitted an application to Chinese authorities for marketization of its COVID-19 vaccine.
China said it will prioritize the strengthening of international cooperation on vaccine development, and make concrete efforts to promote equal distribution, as the Chinese leader has promised to make the vaccines accessible to developing countries on major diplomatic occasions, including ...
Shanghai Pudong Airport started on Sunday night testing all staff after the airport found several cargo handlers and close contacts tested positive for the coronavirus over the past several days.
Chinese vaccine makers said that China's full-throttled development of COVID-19 vaccines remains in the lead among a roster of effective vaccines, although some Western media and politicians have questioned China for delays in releasing late-stage trial data after US drug ...
Brazil's sudden suspension of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine trials on November 9 raised concerns about obstacles China faces in exporting its vaccines. Although clinical trials of the vaccine soon resumed in Brazil, political wrangling behind multi-layered stakeholders and commercial interests in ...
The most cutting-edge Chinese self-produced unmanned helicopters were recently equipped to People's Liberation Army (PLA) Tibet Military Command troops at the border with India. The command had ordered smart weapons and customized equipment - from portable oxygen generators to a ...
Chinese-developed COVID19 vaccine CoronaVac has made progress in its late-stage clinical trials in Turkey as there have been 1,111vaccinations in 638 volunteers - all healthcare workers - across local 25 medical centers as of November 16, the trials study coordinator ...
The first batch of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, developed by Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech (SINOVAC), has finally left for Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is believed to be a positive sign of the two sides' agreement on SINOVAC providing the South ...
With Joe Biden being declared the winner of the US presidential election, many have discussed what changes his administration might bring to China-US relations. Policymakers and analysts around the world are speculating what policies and tools Biden will use to ...
Biden's win marks a more transparent, predictable and disciplined way of dealing with China as opposed to the shotgun approach to threaten or address bilateral concerns, said US economist Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for ...
China is willing to provide the necessary convenience for a Brazilian delegation to inspect the research and development of China's COVID-19 vaccines, in accordance with relevant laws and international practices, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday, as Brazil plans to ...
Brazilian authorities may resume the trials of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine in two to three days after a review process, a source close to the matter told the Global Times, as the reported "severe adverse" case was said to be ...
The death of a volunteer participating in tests of the Chinese-produced Coronavac vaccine was caused by suicide, local media reported, quoting a local police report on Tuesday.
Nepali Congress, a political party in Nepal widely tagged as a pro-India force, was considered the main institution behind the rumors.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry, the Chinese vaccine producer and a Brazilian institute clarified that Brazil's health regulator's decision to halt trials of a Chinese-produced COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil is not related to the vaccine itself, after foreign media said the ...
US drug maker Pfizer said its mRNA vaccine candidate is more than 90 percent effective, while Sinopharm's inactivated vaccine showed 100 percent efficacy at one case in Mexico, both are promising results and have brought about hope of wider use ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Brazil's health regulator's decision to halt trials of a Chinese-produced COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil is not related to the vaccine itself, after foreign media said the suspension is due to a "severe adverse ...
