Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng expressed his willingness for cooperation with the US on tackling climate change in a video conference with US climate envoy John Kerry on Friday, which Chinese experts believed sent a message that China expects the ...
Japan escalated its interference in China's affairs as leaders of Japan and the US made China a focus of their meeting on Friday and for the first time in half a century mentioned China's Taiwan in their joint statement.
China inaugurated the Biosecurity Law on Thursday, which is expected to further fortify the legal shield for the establishment and safe operation of more bio labs as China attaches greater importance to biosecurity as part of national security.
Chinese nuclear power industry insiders on Wednesday urged third-party supervision to ensure every drop of radioactive water that Japan's Fukushima dumps into the ocean conforms to standards, given the previous infamous record of the Japanese nuclear power operator in handling ...
In a move that startled people all over the world, Japan has decided to dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the sea. But netizens have been surprised by the relatively muted coverage of it in mainstream Western media.
Washington's indulgence on Tokyo's decision to discharge radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean is a "political deal" in exchange for Japan's closer strategic adherence, said Chinese experts.
Calls for probes into the US' mysterious bio-labs in order to better understand coronavirus origins are growing after Russia said it has every reason to believe the US is developing biological weapons in labs mainly near the China-Russia border.
China and its partners that are promoting regional health code recognition can be pathfinders for a global vaccine passport program in the future, Chinese experts said, adding that although WHO had reservations over vaccine passports, China's efforts do not conflict ...
Indian media should not make eye-catching sensational reports on Taiwan question, and if Indian government challenges China's bottom line it will result in a tit-for-tat response from China, Chinese experts warned, after the Chinese Embassy in India condemned Indian media ...
A sandstorm gradually drifted out of Beijing on Sunday afternoon after it had enveloped the Chinese capital for about 12 hours, 13 days after the city was hit by the largest sandstorm for the first time in a decade.
“Can you tell us what unfair treatment you have suffered, Miss scarecrow?” a reporter in a Klan hood asked a scarecrow who is being nailed to a column of shame while ignoring real slaves picking cotton behind their backs.
As H&M, Nike and some other multinational companies were caught on their stance over Xinjiang cotton supply issues, the Chinese Ambassador to the US blasted the attempt of the US to counter, suppress and split China behind the Xinjiang cotton ...
China has set the acceleration of its vaccination drive as a political task and the top priority mission of governments at all levels following a video meeting convened by the State Council on Monday, which experts said is a sign ...
Two days after an extremely intense but impressive dialogue with the US in Alaska, China will welcome its close and powerful strategic partner Russia at home to share information and strengthen cooperation as Chinese experts said the Biden administration is ...
The US' attempt to build an Asian alliance to counter China has proved bleaker than expected, perhaps even fizzling out, after two of the three countries, India and South Korea, were reluctant to directly point fingers at China in their ...
After at least 28 Chinese embassies released measures offering facilitation to visa applicants who have been inoculated with Chinese COVID-19 vaccines, an official from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( China CDC) said China so far has ...
Anti-epidemic policies in Hong Kong should be given more understanding amid a public health crisis, experts said, after some media including CNN made sensational reports questioning whether the city should isolate COVID-19 infected children for treatment.
Chinese experts blasted Indian media for their sensational coverage of India's illegal exploration of uranium in South Tibet, reflecting their stubborn position of taking the occupation of China's territory for granted, and warned that such illegal behavior will only complicate ...
Blue sky returned to Beijing on Tuesday after the city was enveloped by the largest sandstorm in a decade for a whole day. But a new "storm" was brewing online after Chinese netizens found that South Korean media blamed the ...
Two employees of the US Consulate General in Hong Kong who tested positive for COVID-19 have been hospitalized and one of their daughters is suspected of being infected, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday.
A powerful sandstorm originally from Mongolia has swept across much of northern China on Monday, creating the strongest and most extensive sandstorm in the country in a decade.
Beijing was engulfed by the largest sandstorms in a decade on Monday morning, which originated in Mongolia, causing the visibility in most areas to be less than 1,000 meters and bringing the PM10 close to 10,000 micrograms per cubic meter ...
Promises by the US and its allies to pump up India's COVID-19 vaccine production capacity to 1 billion doses by the end of 2022 across Asia is more of an exchange of interests, and whether this effort is able to ...
China has simplified its visa policy for foreigners applying to enter the Chinese mainland via Hong Kong who have received China-produced COVID-19 vaccines, which experts said shows the authorities' confidence in the efficacy and safety of the Chinese vaccines and ...
As soon as Friday, the Hong Kong regional government will issue detailed guidelines, including blood pressure and blood glucose readings, for doctors to decide whether a person can take COVID-19 vaccines, according to local media.
Beijing's subway may exempt passengers with good credit records from mandatory security checks as part of its new smart measures to speed up commuters' entry into the subway.
Beijing's subway is mulling exempting people with good credit records from mandatory security checks as part of its new smart measures to speed up city commuters' flow of entry into the subway.
The US CDC said on Monday that individuals who are fully inoculated against COVID-19 can gather indoors, visit unvaccinated people from other households without wearing masks. The CDC even said the vaccinated could get close to the COVID-19 infected patient ...
The World Health Organization on Monday once again expressed practical and ethical concerns over using a vaccination passport as a certificate for international travel, while China on the same day launched its version of a health code for people who ...
China's top legislature will work on legislations against external sanctions, interference and long-arm jurisdiction in the coming year, aiming to perfect the foreign-related legal systems for the country to cope with challenges and risks brought by foreign forces, top legislator ...
The real definition of multilateralism is respecting the UN Charter, promoting democratization of international relations, and not playing with group politics or selective multilateralism, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized on Sunday.
China should establish a national-level virus strain and gene sequences database and carry out pre-research on vaccines against threats posed by COVID-19 mutations, Chinese deputies and political advisors suggested, in order to ensure the country's achievements against the epidemic are ...
Is English really that important? A Chinese lawmaker at the two sessions has proposed removing English as a core subject for Chinese students receiving compulsory education, triggering heated discussion on Chinese social media.
China should completely ban smoking in indoor public places and enact a national-level smoke-free law to protect the health of non-smokers, a Chinese lawmaker said in a proposal brought to the two sessions, stressing a nationwide law on smoking bans ...
Attracted by the huge market potential of the new-energy vehicles (NEV), a good number of Chinese companies from diverse sectors - including online search company Baidu, telecom company ZTE and home appliance maker Hisense - have rushed into the new ...
Chinese Embassy in India and the country's cybersecurity insiders have refuted a Reuters report which cited Goldman Sachs-backed cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma on Monday as claiming that a "Chinese state-backed' hacking group had attacked two Indian vaccine makers in recent ...
China's vaccine producer Sinopharm has completed clinical trials for groups aged 3-17 and will submit its data for approval soon, which industry observers said is likely to expand China's mass vaccination for minors.
It will take at least two to three years to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 worldwide, leading Chinese respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan said, calling for global cooperation and unity in ending the pandemic.
As China has basically contained the virus and the speedy rolling out of vaccination in countries around the world is anticipated to help them control the epidemic in summer, several Chinese lawmakers and political advisors said they will propose the ...
Chinese students on Monday returned to campuses amid zero domestic COVID-19 transmissions for 14 consecutive days.
Schools across the country ushered in the new semester on Monday by teaching Party history to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) this year.
Chinese President Xi Jinping solemnly declared "complete victory" on eradicating extreme poverty in China at a national commendation conference on Thursday - four months before the centennial of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) - marking another ...
President Xi Jinping solemnly declared China's "complete victory" in eradicating absolute poverty during a conference in Beijing on Thursday. The announcement of this great miracle in the human history of poverty reduction came four months before the centenary of the ...
More than 1,800 people have sacrificed their lives while fighting on the frontline of China's battle against poverty over the past eight years, underscoring the country's targeted efforts to lift 100 million rural people out of poverty since 2012 through ...
On Tuesday, the first day that reservations opened for Hong Kong residents to get their COVID-19 vaccines, all slots in the following two week were immediately booked. Observers believe that the city may achieve an immunity barrier by year-end.
China hopes the US to lift its restrictions on Chinese educational and cultural groups, media outlets and institutions for overseas Chinese affairs in the US, remove its obstructions for US local governments and social sectors to engage with China, State ...
The H5N8 strain of bird flu has been detected in seven workers at a poultry farm in Russia, the first time it has been found in humans, according to media reports. Chinese experts said although it may not become a ...
Beijing has launched a massive COVID-19 vaccination campaign after it basically finished the inoculation of key groups around the Spring Festival holidays, with many districts expected to complete the drive in May.
A recombinant strain of the novel coronavirus has likely been detected in the US, leading Chinese experts to warn that a more dangerous virus could emerge if SARS-CoV-2 recombines with other coronavirus.
As the World Health Organization expert team is busy finalizing the origins-tracing report after its visit to Wuhan, conspiracy theories have arisen in Western media trying to undermine the trustworthiness of the report. Observers said these politically driven acts will ...
Some high-income countries have snapped up about 70 percent of coronavirus vaccines that would be available in 2021, which, together with other issues such as production capacity, would largely threaten equal and timely global vaccine provisions, said a recent report ...
WHO experts who just visited Wuhan slammed the New York Times for twisting their words and casting shadows over scientific efforts to uncover the origins of the virus, after the newspaper wrongly accuses China of refusing to hand over sensitive ...
The Chinese mainland for the first time reported zero new domestic COVID-19 cases on Sunday since December 17, some 53 days after the latest outbreak hit the country across several regions this winter. Chinese health experts believed this signals a ...
A media report revealed that at least nine newborns at a care center in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province were diagnosed with pneumonia, a finding that prompted experts to call for evaluating risks and plugging loopholes in postnatal care centers ...
The Hong Kong radio host known as Giggs was again arrested by the National Security Department of Hong Kong police on Sunday on suspicion of having behavior with seditious intent, making him another media figure to be arrested on charges ...
Promising interim data released by China's COVID-19 developer Sinovac regarding its vaccines on elderly people will push forward China's efforts to streamline its vaccine rollout for the seniors and consolidate the country's plan to establish herd immunity. Yet scientists urge ...
Chinese cities have rolled out measures to guarantee the well-being of left-behind children, arranging for at least one qualified person to look after them who live apart from their parents during the upcoming Spring Festival holidays, the first time that ...
WHO team in Wuhan visited an animal health facility on Tue morning, Reuters reported. A member of the team said in a Tweet they are “meeting with key staff in charge of livestock surveillance in the province. Tour of laboratory ...
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 ...
The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus reportedly visited a cold storage area in Wuhan Sunday morning. The team is expected to visit the Huanan seafood market Sunday afternoon, an expert from the team told the ...
While the EU medicines regulator gave AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine the green light for all adults with conditional marketing authorization, and deemed Pfizer's vaccines safe on the same day despite the reported deaths of some elderly people in Norway, Chinese observers ...
While China's central government has released guidelines for the management of flows of population amid the Spring Festival to reduce epidemic risks, local governments in a few places are adding further restrictions or adopting one-size-fits-all approaches in implementing the policy, ...
China has administered 22.77 million coronavirus vaccine doses, Chinese authorities said on Wednesday, marking a step closer for China to reach the target of inoculating 50 million people before the Chinese New Year.
While India media was "relieved" by the high rate of coronavirus antibodies found in the New Delhi population, seeing it a step closer to "herd immunity" and almost victory for the city in the battle against coronavirus, Chinese experts believe ...
While Indian media hailed the high rate of antibodies against novel coronavirus in the New Delhi population, seeing it as a step closer to achieving "herd immunity," Chinese experts expressed shock at the epidemic situation in the country, and warned ...
The large-scale use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines including those produced by Pfizer and Moderna may contain unknown risks, Chinese experts warned, and called for the cautious use of such vaccines following the death of a patient in the US.
Low-risk regions in North China's Hebei Province, many of which had been locked down due to outbreaks of coronavirus, are reopening as new infections continue to decline.
Facing an online uproar, a deputy mayor of the Northeast Chinese city of Tonghua apologized on Sunday for slow deliveries of daily necessities to residents, after the city placed its entire 500,000 population under home quarantine amid rising infections.
Chinese health authorities released on Wednesday an extra strict guideline especially for people returning to their hometowns in rural areas during the upcoming Spring Festival holidays, stipulating tough measures including a 14-day health monitoring period at home after arrivals. Many ...
Officials tied a man to a tree during a COVID-19 lockdown; villagers got slapped when playing mahjong when coronavirus was still rife … incidents that occurred in Chinese rural areas' epidemic prevention efforts have stirred a firestorm of online criticism, ...
China has rolled out measures to guide the public on their return journeys to their hometowns and urged them to stay in their working cities during the upcoming Spring Festival holidays. Among the measures are mandatory nucleic acid tests within ...
Public security organs opened investigation into a village official in North China's Hebei Province after he had a villager who insisted on going out to buy cigarettes during COVID-19 lockdown tied to a tree.
Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province held 16 officials accountable for being slack in anti-epidemic control work, seen by many as the latest example of China's increasingly strict accountability mechanism to build strong state governance and Party discipline.
Doubts of vaccine safety lingers as India rolled out the so-called world's largest vaccination program starting this weekend. At least one death and 447 cases of side effects were reported among 224,000 people, reports said.
As the novel coronavirus sees a resurgence in China, at least 11 regions in three provinces adopted de facto lockdown measures and rolled out massive free nucleic acid tests among populations to curb the spread of the virus.
The latest round of COVID-19 infections in North China's Hebei Province remains at a high level despite more than two weeks of anti-epidemic control measures, with experts saying the province will take another week to see a turning point.
Loudspeakers in villages started blasting, long alert banners were hung on walls, excavators and metal gates were set up to examine vehicles and visitors…Chinese villages are fighting the novel coronavirus in its own way as virus resurgence occurs in multiple ...
North China's Hebei Province reported a death from COVID-19 on Thursday, becoming the country's first coronavirus fatality in about eight months. The case might not be a direct indication that the virus has become more pathogenic but sounds an alarm ...
China on Thursday reported its first local COVID-19 fatality in about eight months since May 17, a female patient from North China's Hebei Province who had an underlying disease and had been extremely ill before she died on Wednesday afternoon. ...
To probe the origin of the COVID-19 virus is a scientific task, and World Health Organization experts' team needs to make similar trips to other countries, in addition to China's Wuhan, Chinese officials said Wednesday, a day before the WHO ...
Asymptomatic infections, sporadic cases and outbreaks in a few places will not cause another major COVID-19 epidemic in China, an official from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) told the public at a press conference Wednesday. ...
The outbreak in North China's Hebei Province saw a new daily high of infections on Wednesday, with 90 confirmed and 15 asymptomatic COVID-19 patients discovered, since the first case on January 2. Experts say this round of high infection numbers, ...
Gu'an, a North China's county neighboring Beijing, will impose a seven-day quarantine on its entire 500,000 population and will roll out free nucleic acid tests to residents after one person was confirmed to be infected with COVID-19. The patient works ...
The Chinese mainland is facing a rising virus outbreak in multiple cities ahead of its biggest annual festival following the lockdown of a county in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Monday, after the de facto lockdown in Shijiazhuang, capital city ...
A clustered outbreak of COVID-19 infections has emerged in a village in Beijing, amid warnings that China's villages could be a potential weak spot in the country's epidemic control efforts.
Wangkui county in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province has entered lockdown with restrictions on transportation and residential communities after detecting 26 COVID-19 asymptomatic patients on Monday. The outbreak has also spread to the neighboring Jilin Province.
After the shocking and historic incident that happened at the Capitol Hill in Washington DC last week, Democrats and establishment elites in the US are trying their best to launch a comprehensive offensive against US President Donald Trump and his ...
The virus strain found in coronavirus-hit Hebei Province in North China is believed to be from overseas and patient zero had emerged before December 15, Hebei authorities revealed on Sunday, but how the virus was imported remains a mystery.
India has not only threatened the peace and stability in the region around Pangong Tso Lake by inciting frequent tussles along the lakeshore, it is also threatening the unique ecosystem of the high-altitude, 134 kilometer-long lake that forms part of ...
Experts warned of potential loopholes among China's villages in the country's COVID-19 prevention efforts due to lack of awareness and measures for detecting COVID-19 virus in clinics, amid surging cases in North China's Hebei Province.
Using intelligent seat cushions to monitor employees may be against the law, experts warned Tuesday following reports that a company in East China's Zhejiang Province had used such intelligent products to check on its employees' behavior.
North China's Hebei Province entered “wartime” mode after recording 59 cases in three days and its capital city is rolling out a city-wide testing, which prompted many to ask if the epidemic is making a big comeback in winter and ...
Chinese experts have warned there are risks of new coronavirus outbreaks with the arrival of Spring Festival holidays, although super spreaders and a patient testing negative 11 times before being confirmed were "exceptional cases."
The year 2020 is a difficult year for not only China but also the rest of the world due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and a series of knock-on effects on the world.
China confirmed on Sunday a second imported case of the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant that has been spreading wildly in the UK. China's chief epidemiologist and public health experts said the current prevention mechanism will be effective in warding ...
Central China's Wuhan, where the COVID-19 epidemic first broke out, has released a list of emergency materials that Chinese families should stock, and called on the public to make preparations in the event that another serious outbreak occurs.
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 ...
Doctor Ai Fen, who had fought the early outbreak of coronavirus in Central China's Wuhan, is accusing an ophthalmology hospital in the city of botching operation that has left her nearly blind in her right eye. AIER Eye Hospital Group ...
China's national rail operator issued a notification of ticket pre-sales for the 40-day 2021 Spring Festival travel period, known as chunyun, on Tuesday. For the Chinese people, who spent an unforgettable Spring Festival this year due to the COVID-19 outbreak, ...
With more countries reporting coronavirus cases related to the new variant over the weekend and the world again escalating control measures, people are asking at the end of 2020: Will the world be mired again in a pandemic nightmare like ...
Churches in downtown Beijing suspended festive events on Christmas Eve after a new asymptomatic COVID-19 case was reported in the Chinese capital on Thursday.
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 voices alleging that the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is seeking political ends in the fight against the epidemic, some representatives from the city expressed the hope of seeking nucleic acid tests and vaccine assistance ...
Chinese coastal city Dalian rolls out citywide nucleic acid testing on Tue
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.
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 has tightened requirements for passengers flying in from the US amid a spike in imported COVID-19 cases among those traveling from the US.
China's top respiratory diseases expert Zhong Nanshan said environment-to-human transmission has become a new pattern in the spread of COVID-19, and called on scientists to look for answers to this growing problem.
Wuhan may not be the location where the coronavirus made the zoonotic jump from animals to humans, with the transmission chain in the city potentially originating from humans, Chinese analysts said regarding the World Health Organization (WHO) international team's scheduled ...
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.
British Ambassador to China Caroline Wilson has just finished her four-day visit to Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, which was hit the hardest by COVID-19 in the country early this year. During the visit, she acknowledged the city's efforts in ...
A team of international experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to visit China in January as part of their global study on the origins of the novel coronavirus. One team member believed the China trip will start ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has set up a 10-person international team on the global study of the origins of the novel coronavirus to visit China soon to investigate what one team member said was "where the virus first jumped ...
Turpan, an inland city in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has become the latest city where coronavirus strains from the genotype of the European family were detected after previous outbreaks in Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing. Experts warned that the ...
Recent outbreaks of COVID-19 in multiple cities are scaring off some Chinese people from going on their annual Spring Festival holiday, with some calling for its cancellation over fears that the annual Spring Festival travel rush, the world's biggest human ...
COVID-19 outbreaks with unknown sources of infection are taking place in at least four Chinese cities - Dongning and Suifenhe in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Turpan in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. ...
As a deadly surge in COVID-19 cases has led to more than 283,000 deaths in the US, US media reported on Tuesday that President Donald Trump nears signing an executive order to vaccinate all Americans against the coronavirus.
A 20-year-old confirmed COVID-19 female patient from Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, is believed to have suffered from cyber bullying after her personal information was leaked in the wake of the outbreak in the city.
Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, is expanding nucleic acid testing and carrying out virus gene sequencing to curb the spread of COVID-19 and identify the source of an outbreak after the city saw a total of five domestic cases in ...
Facebook has suspended pages linked to pro-establishment groups in Hong Kong, making it hard for the page followers and group members to catch up on activity notices and connect with each other.
There has been a spike in the number of people from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) entering the Chinese mainland via Shenzhen Bay Port in South China's Guangdong Province, with numbers of up to 3,000 in one day, as ...
Four police officers in East China are in hot water after a 17-year-old girl jumped into a river and drowned in their sight, despite efforts to dissuade her, which triggered public discussion about the role of the police in the ...
Making vaccines a global public good is the best way to fight against nationalism, imperialism, and conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19, an expert from the International Vaccine Institute said Saturday, calling for global effort in maintaining the safety and efficacy of ...
China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic was "scientific," "timely" and "transparent" which "laid the foundation for the global control of the pandemic," Chinese top epidemiologist said Saturday, rebutting US accusations that the pandemic was caused by China's lack of transparency. ...
China will face a big test in epidemic prevention, as authorities warned of sporadic outbreaks with the approach of Spring Festival, during which domestic air travel will be close to the same level as the period before the epidemic.
China does not seek to alter the virus origin story as some Western media claimed; it is a fact that China may have been the whistleblower of the pandemic, as mounting academic and official evidence have shown the early existence ...
Amid hypotheses and studies trying to answer the complex scientific question about where and how the novel coronavirus emerged, the Global Times found a study that claimed the Indian subcontinent might be the place where the earliest human-to-human novel coronavirus ...
More evidence and academic studies exploring the origin of the novel coronavirus have emerged, pressing the international community to review the issue and strengthen global cooperation, experts said Sunday after WHO officials reached out to researchers in Italy to investigate ...
International containers and imported cold-chain products are posing dual challenges for China to prevent a COVID-19 epidemic resurgence, which has prompted many cities to adopt preventive measures to avoid another large-scale outbreak.
