After being suspended on April 29 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, China-North Korea trans-border freight train services have been resumed following friendly consultations, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
A number of COVID-19 cases have been detected through on-site nucleic acid testing when travelers arrive at airports, train stations and highway exits, a method recently adopted across China to address the escalated risk brought about by increasing population flow ...
When Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, he delivered China's solemn position on the recent wrong behaviors of ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Thursday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, in a meeting which Wong described as "constructive."
A well-timed second booster dose is necessary for a safe, long-term exit from the pandemic, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) said in a recent article, confirming the necessity of a fourth shot against COVID-19. It ...
Over the past decade, the color green has become a more prominent and brighter background for Beautiful China, in which humanity and nature coexist in harmony and contribute more to jointly constructing a clean and beautiful world.
A Beijing-based gene firm on Monday announced the debut of the world's first cloned wild arctic wolf via video, 100 days after its birth in a Beijing lab. Experts said its birth pioneers the breeding of more rare and endangered ...
A top Chinese epidemiologist has warned against the high possibility of a "twindemic" scenario of COVID-19 and influenza in the upcoming winter and the spring and urged the public to be vaccinated against both.
China is willing to work with Pacific Island Countries (PICs) to make COP27 a conference themed on climate change action and will provide more support to PICs in tackling climate change, Chinese representatives said during the China-Pacific Island Countries dialogue ...
China's top cyberspace regulator on Wednesday proposed a series of amendments to the country's cybersecurity law including raising penalty and an employment ban on internet operators who violated the law to better protect the legitimate rights and interests of individuals ...
Chairman of Pakistan's Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani expressed condolences over the loss of precious lives in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Luding county in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday
The upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is expected to see a tourism boom, with Chinese cities having optimized anti-epidemic travel requirements following recent COVID-19 outbreaks around the country.
By June 2022, the number of internet users in China has reached 1.051 billion, an increase of 19.19 million over las year, according to a newly-released report by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) obtained by the Global Times on ...
China has dispatched two Y-20 large transport aircraft of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force on Tuesday carrying some 3,000 tents to aid flood-hit Pakistan.
Procuratorate organs have prosecuted 28 people, including main suspect Chen Jizhi, in the high-profile case of barbecue restaurant assault in Tangshan, as evidences of their crimes were solid, the procuratorate of North China's Hebei Province announced on Monday.
Inbound travelers who have a fever and those who return from malaria-prevalent countries and regions, and those are in quarantine against COVID-19, should undergo malaria tests, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Thursday, as China's health authorities vowed to ...
Five cities and counties in the COVID-19 hit South China's Hainan Province will gradually resume fishing starting from Tuesday as local outbreak eyes a turning point. Fishing boats and ports in the province had previously been halted since trade with ...
As persistent severe heat wave and drought unseen in decades continue to test China's power generation capacity and autumn harvests, relevant government departments have ramped up multiple efforts to ensure power supply and alleviate the impact of the extreme weather ...
The 2022 Future Science Prize, a privately funded science honor established by a group of renowned scientists and entrepreneurs, dubbed "China's Nobel Prize," was awarded on Sunday to three Chinese scholars for their outstanding achievement in basic scientific research, a ...
Six members of a Hong Kong secessionist organization pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to subvert state power" in Hong Kong on Saturday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday ordered local authorities in Northeast China's Liaoning Province to ensure the safety of people's lives in flood control, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday. During his inspection of comprehensive environmental improvement work along ...
As several regions in China are sweltering under temperatures above 40 C, the country's meteorological authorities have continued to issue high temperature alerts for 25 consecutive days, and meteorologists believe the summer of 2022 has witnessed the strongest heat wave ...
Urumqi of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Ngari Prefecture of Southwest China's Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous – two of most popular tourism destinations in China – on Wednesday escalated their COVID-19 response levels by imposing “static management” in a ...
Just as Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region grapples with Omicron variants, its neighboring Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region in Southwest China reported 27 cases on Tuesday, testing the border regions' capability in handling COVID-19. The COVID-19 cases detected in Lhasa, capital ...
Just because US intelligence agencies' decade-long cyberattacks against China were exposed to the public, the US had attempted to break into Chinese internet security companies but it failed to penetrate the defenses of Beijing-based security company 360, Zhou Hongyi, founder ...
Signals from Algeria that it wants to join BRICS demonstrate that more and more countries have faith in the group, and its ability to offset the negative influence of certain countries' rising unilateralism and protectionism, said experts.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has finally announced her Asia trip plan on Sunday that includes Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan with no mention of Taiwan, but this is still far from being able to give a sigh of ...
At least seven cities across the country have canceled the Japanese festivals known as Matsuri. While the majority of the Chinese public retains an open attitude toward Japanese culture, some recent incidents such as a woman detained in Nanjing for ...
As ministers of various countries participate in the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) via video link on Tuesday, observers pointed out the US, with its bankrupted credibility and declining strength, may find it hard to rally its partners with very ...
With President Joko Widodo of the Republic of Indonesia being the first foreign leader to visit China since the Winter Olympics in February this year, the ties between China and Indonesia are set to witness an all-round upgrade after his ...
Although China has not reported any monkeypox cases, the country has raised its alert level and is ready to cope with the rapidly-spreading the zoonotic infectious disease, health experts said on Sunday, as monkeypox has been labeled by the World ...
China is mulling whether to further shorten the quarantine period and impose more precise anti-epidemic restrictions, as part of its efforts to optimize the COVID-19 response, health authorities said on Thursday amid Omicron BA.5 subvariant-dominated outbreaks in at least 20 ...
As scorching, record-breaking heat is expected to affect southern China for a longer time, reports of heat strokes have been increasing in various cities, with at least one death reported by a hospital in Southwest China's Sichuan Province and two ...
The Chinese mainland reported 385 positive COVID-19 infections on Saturday, scattered across seven provincial-level regions, with East China's Anhui the hardest-hit province.
Long working hours, malnutrition, beatings. Most people may remember the horrors described in Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens' classic novel, which exposed the abuse of children in factories and farms in 19th century London. In today's world where most children live ...
China always puts China-Pakistan relations a priority in neighboring diplomacy, and is willing to strengthen coordination with Pakistan on multilateral affairs and safeguard the common interests of developing countries, said top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi during a meeting with Pakistani ...
China no longer marks cities with COVID infections in travel tracking system to balance epidemic control & socioeconomic dev, facilitate traveling starting from Wed: Ministry of Industry & Information Technology. In practice, those from marked cities usually face restrictions while ...
China has launched a 100-day campaign to crack down on illegal behaviors to eliminate security problems, highlighting the protection of vulnerable groups including children and women. It came after the curtain call of special campaign against crimes in the wake ...
The positive rate of the influenza viruses dominated by the influenza A (H3N2) subtype in southern China has continued to rise, with some regions seeing a spike in cases surpassing that of winter, according to data released by the Chinese ...
The multi-country monkeypox outbreak does not constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), announced the World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement on Saturday, as some 47 countries and regions have reported an accumulated 3,040 cases since May ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has underscored the importance of better listening to the people's voices by making use of the internet and other channels, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.
After more than a month of clearance of infections in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, the city has reported sporadic local COVID-19 cases in recent days. In light of this, Shenzhen has tightened its anti-epidemic measures by requesting its residents ...
A dozen Chinese provinces and regions are easing travel curbs ahead of the summer holiday, which is expected to boost the tourism market amid encouraging national policies and constant low levels of COVID-19 infections.
The public security authority of North China's Hebei Province on Tuesday gave an update on the situations of four victims injured in a brutal restaurant assault in Tangshan on June 10, as well as progress in the probe of the ...
Extreme weather, likely caused by climate change, has plagued China, ranging from a heat wave of up to 40 C in the northern part of the country to heavy floods in large parts of southern China, with some 85 rivers ...
The latest Yang-Sullivan meeting, which came after US President's Asia trip that was widely seen as Washington's concrete efforts of building an ideology-driven small clique in containing China and was held before the upcoming NATO meeting, delivered an important message ...
Tangshan in North China's Hebei Province on Sunday launched a special campaign against crimes across the city with a heavy punch and no mercy, following the arrest of nine suspects involved in the harassment and beating incident at a local ...
North China's Hebei Province hit top trending topic on social media after local governments were accused of adopting a one-size-fits-all approach in their COVID-19 epidemic quarantine policy.
Nearly half a century of exchanges between China and the Pacific Island countries have proven that the exchanges have not and will not affect regional security and stability in the future, we focus on economic development and care about the ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to arrive in PNG, the last leg of his trip to the South Pacific island nations. Experts say China's assistance to and cooperation with regional countries are based on providing ...
Chinese authorities have stepped up efforts to stem the spread of COVID-19 during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holidays, when a tourism boom is expected after localities eased anti-epidemic restrictions on inter-provincial and other travel activities as the epidemic situation ...
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on Wednesday announced a third large-scale military exercise around the island of Taiwan in the past 30 days targeting US-Taiwan collusion, seeing US Senator Tammy Duckworth off as she was leaving ...
China is getting ready for the national college entrance exam for 2022, known as the gaokao, with a record test takers of some 11.93 million expected to take the make-or-break exam — the largest gathering ahead of the 20th National ...
One year since the first virtual foreign ministers' meeting between China and the Pacific Island nations, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi took a historic trip to eight regional countries and jointly chaired the second foreign ministers' meeting ...
China's customs authorities said monkeypox monitoring had been heightened, and warned against the epidemic risk posed by the zoonotic infectious disease. According to the WHO the disease poses moderate risk to public health and it is highly likely that numerous ...
Beijing and Shanghai, China's two megacities, are gradually walking out of the shadow of Omicron outbreaks, providing valuable experiences for the country in carrying out the dynamic zero-COVID strategy that once again proves to be the most effective approach in ...
As China and South Pacific island countries are going to strengthen their cooperation to better serve local people's demand for development, some voices from the West or Western media have started to distort the cooperation and hype the fear of ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is to start his trip to the South Pacific region and East Timor, with the first stop to the Solomon Islands, it was officially announced on Tuesday.
Due to COVID-19 concerns, China continues to discourage unnecessary individual tourism abroad but people of special needs such as work resumption will certainly be given support, China's National Immigration Administration (NIA) said Monday, debunking some media reports claiming China imposed ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday reached consensus on enhancing counter-terrorism cooperation, formulating "enhanced plan" to safeguard the security of Chinese personnel and projects in Pakistan and further ...
The Saturday meeting between visiting US President Joe Biden and his new South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul has turned out to be quite troubling, as the two countries agreed to hold bigger combined military drills and deploy more ...
After Finland and Sweden formally submitted letters on Wednesday to join NATO, the new round of expansion of the US-led military alliance is very likely to be further strengthened, however this change will not reinforce the collective security of Europe, ...
A small county in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, home to over 1 million residents, is grappling with an Omicron surge with infections already surpassing 500 in one week. Linshui County, under Guang'an city, about 90 kilometers away from neighboring Chongqing, has ...
The shooting that left 10 people dead and another three wounded at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, carried out by an 18-year-old white young man is the latest sign that the dangerous white supremacy and neo-Nazi ideology tolerated by ...
Beijing suspended more businesses and announced more rounds of mass nucleic acid testing in 12 areas on Monday, as local health authorities said the city's daily growth of new cases remained high and the sneaky sources of infections and transmission ...
Telecom operators in East China's Zhejiang gave options to users if they would like to block calls from overseas in a bid to protect them from becoming victims of rampant cross-border telecom frauds.
While experiencing a COVID-19 surge of more than 50,000 infections daily, the Taiwan island is expected to display its counter-COVID "achievements and contributions" at a US-led online "Global COVID-19 Summit." Experts viewed it as political posturing in order to coordinate ...
Shanghai's epidemic control has approached the light at the end of the tunnel as the mega-city has detected the lowest daily tally since March 24, and at least eight districts have basically cleared the coronavirus at the community level.
The Marrakesh Treaty, the first and only human rights treaty that is copyrighted, officially came into force in China on Thursday. Observers said it is a practical move that China adopted to expand the country's human rights protection sphere for ...
Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday and both sides agreed to further deepen cooperation in military and other areas, during a rare visit by the Chinese Defense Minister ...
China on Thursday released its first nationwide official document focusing on its youth in the new era, highlighting the historical achievements the country has made in youth development in the new era, the generation's amazing vibrancy and passion, and their ...
Over 20 cities or regions across China – collectively home to about 50 million residents – are currently under static management to fight sweeping Omicron flare-ups. Chinese health experts said static management policy is necessary for the country to win ...
Sticking with the dynamic zero-case strategy is the best choice at the current stage, Chinese officials said on Tuesday, as data showed that the Chinese mainland's domestic COVID-19 infections had reached 325,303 since March 1, affecting 30 provincial-level regions, with ...
Considering the lessons from Shanghai's response to the Omicron resurgence, a number of provinces and cities across China are taking more decisive preventive measures to screen out possible COVID-19 infections through massive nucleic acid testing.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from office in a no-confidence vote in the country's parliament on Sunday, but such a major political upheaval in Islamabad will not affect the solid friendship between China and Pakistan. Experts from both ...
Shanghai inaugurated its largest makeshift hospital on Saturday amid heightened efforts in battling Omicron, as new daily infections continued to climb. Amid current decisive and effective epidemic control measures, a research team forecast that the epidemic in Shanghai will soon ...
A prefecture bordering North Korea and Russia became the first region in the Omicron-hit Jilin Province to clear all lockdown communities on Wednesday, signaling that the province is moving a step closer to achieving the dynamic-zero goal.
China will unwaveringly adhere to the dynamic-zero case strategy, officials from the National Health Commission (NHC) stressed on Wednesday, as the Chinese mainland reported 20,000 daily new cases, the highest number since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The research and development (R&D) of more COVID-19 vaccines with good protection rates is key for China to further build up an effective immune barrier, which is also seen as a must for future adjustment of anti-epidemic measures, Chinese immunologists ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi had met with at least two foreign ministers from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in recent days, as they exchanged views on China-ASEAN friendly relationship, regional and international ...
2,086 +7,789! Though China's epidemic situation is still developing sporadically with asymptomatic cases spiking, dynamic zero-case will still be achieved: Chinese health experts
A primary study conducted by Chinese researchers confirmed that Pfizers oral COVID-19 drug Paxlovid is effective. But more studies will be required to determine to what degree it will benefit the countrys fight against the epidemic.
Since March 1, China has recorded more than 70,000 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, mostly caused by the highly contagious Omicron and its sub-variant, with 28 provincial-level regions affected. Epidemiologists said that such a rapid increase in cases in this short ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host the third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan's Neighboring Countries in China on March 30 and 31. Analysts said the meeting will focus on humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people ...
China on Tuesday revised its guideline on nucleic acid testing, which no longer requires citywide testing but regional testing, in order to make its epidemic prevention and control measures more targeted under the dynamic zero-COVID policy amid the worst outbreak ...
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and State Councilor Wang Yong led a team to the plane crash site in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region late Monday to guide the rescue work and investigation of the cause of the accident. ...
Epidemic-hit Jilin Province in Northeast China has received and distributed 10,000 doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 treatment drug Paxlovid to the anti-epidemic frontlines, the first batch of this coronavirus oral pill to be used in the Chinese mainland after gaining approval. ...
The daily tally of COVID-19 cases in China remained high over the weekend, with 3,803 infections being reported in the Chinese mainland on Sunday, involving 21 provincial-level localities.
China updated its COVID-19 playbook on Tuesday night, ordering COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms go to quarantine in centralized isolation facilities instead of being hospitalized, and lowering the bar for patients to be discharged from hospital. Top epidemiologists hailed the ...
Chinese tech hub Shenzhen, a coastal city bordering Hong Kong with 17 million residents, pressed the pause button on Monday, the first day authorities instituted a stay-at-home order to facilitate mass testing. The authorities also warned more positive cases among ...
As China faces its severest domestic COVID-19 outbreaks in two years with a record 1,807 new cases reported on Sunday, the country has launched a swift response to contain the virus spread, including allowing rapid antigen tests for public use ...
At least 26 government officials have recently been dismissed for poor performance in handling the epidemic in cities in South China's Guangdong and Northeast China's Jilin as well as East China's Shandong provinces where COVID-19 broke out.
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HSAR) government had submitted request to the mainland to dispatch medical teams to aid Hong Kong for dealing with severe COVID-19 cases and boost efficiency of treating patients among public hospitals, Carrie Lam, chief executive ...
The holiday greetings to women worldwide sent by female taikonaut Wang Yaping from the space station on the International Women's Day drew netizens' salutes to "woman power" in China across social media on Tuesday.
China has witnessed the highest daily tally of COVID-19 cases in two years, with numbers soaring to 526 on Sunday, scattered across 14 provinces and municipalities, including several port cities such as Qingdao and densely populated metropolises like Shanghai, as ...
On Sunday morning, the construction of a central government-aided hospital officially kicked off in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), which aims to contain the surging COVID-19 outbreak in the city.
Strict epidemic prevention and control measures have helped make China one of the most successful countries in fighting the pandemic, Zhang Yesui, spokesperson for the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress, said Friday amid discussions and speculation of ...
The first freight train from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong carrying anti-epidemic supplies, including more than 1.1million COVID-19 testing kits and 10,000 protective garments, was launched on Wednesday, providing aid to the city amid rising infections and panic purchase ...
The US' National Security Agency (NSA) has been launching cyberattacks against 47 countries and regions for a decade, with China's government departments, high-tech companies and military-related institutes among the key targets, the Global Times learned from a report published by ...
A Chinese political adviser called on China to build a digital security emergency response system to address challenges brought by cyberattacks on data relating to key infrastructure, cities and major enterprises which are the primary target.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) reported a record high of 26,026 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the total amid the fifth wave of the outbreak to more than 150,000. As the number of infections continues to rocket, ...
China on Wednesday urged Japan to discipline its diplomatic personnel, respect Chinese law and restrain its diplomats from engaging in activities inconsistent with their capacity after media reported a Japanese diplomat in China was briefly held for questioning on Monday.
Half a year after Wuhan experienced a round of COVID-19 outbreaks, the city is hit once again with the novel coronavirus. This time it's the Omicron variant. The total infections reached 14 in two days with all centered on a ...
It's hard to say goodbye to Bing Dwen Dwen, the mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, as the Games ended on Sunday. Soon it will be the home platform of Shuey Rhon Rhon, the mascot of the Beijing ...
From preventing cross-infection among medics, quickly reducing new infections and preventing mild cases from progressing into severe cases, the arrival of aid from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong will bring a lot of Wuhan experience to fight against the ...
The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee thanked the Beijing Winter Olympics organizing committee for holding such an impressive event and the Chinese Embassy in the US for its assistance for the US delegation to visit China to participate the competition, ...
The US strategy for a 'free and open Indo-Pacific' that leans heavily on coordinating with its alliances, building up stronger presence in Southeast Asia as well as military deterrence to counter China is nothing but a ridiculous Biden administration fantasy ...
The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) announced on its official website Saturday it has given conditional approval for Pfizer's COVID-19 treatment drug Paxlovid.
A medical team at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics successfully rescued one athlete in Zhangjiakou, marking the first emergency rescue by air conducted during the Beijing Games, the Global Times learnt from the Peking University Third Hospital on Thursday.
The tone of the 4th Quad foreign ministers' meeting scheduled for Friday in Australia is still based on ideological differences and a cold war mentality, as US and Australian officials stressed the meeting will discuss the "challenges" posed by China ...
Efforts and achievements of China's campaign to crack down on fentanyl trafficking have been witnessed by the international community and it shows China's responsibility in participating in the global drug governance, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday in response ...
Zhu Yi, an American-born figure skater who represents China, shed her tears on the ice after falling again in the women's free skate event on Monday morning amid brewing online criticism.
A top Chinese university in Beijing, which has sent the largest number of volunteers to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, warned its students and teachers to keep alert on possible cyberattacks from suspicious malwares that are disguised as related to ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday urged the US to stop interfering in the Beijing Winter Olympics and stop playing with fire on the Taiwan question while calling on all parties involved in Ukraine to remain ...
Some of China's port cities, which have been at the frontline in fending off the risks of imported COVID-19 cases over the past two years, were again caught in a resurgence of coronavirus cases in recent days.
China's cyberspace regulator has launched a campaign to rein in chaotic behavior in the cyberspace as Spring Festival approaches. The campaign includes curbing cyberbullying and rumormongering on the internet as well as preventing a rebound of chaotic fan club activities.
People who receive mails from overseas should take nucleic acid tests between the third and seventh day after receiving it, several cities in South China's Guangdong Province issued the notice recently as a normalized anti-epidemic measure to prevent international packages ...
Hopes for the border reopening of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) with the Chinese mainland around the Spring Festival have been dashed, experts said on Sunday, after the city reported 140 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 104 cases ...
Cybersecurity insiders warned of cyberattacks from the US days ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, and urged the US to act responsibly as a world power, after Russia revealed the US and its allies are launching a massive ...
Beijing tightened anti-epidemic measures and urged all departments to fend off COVID-19 flare-ups in the city with all-round measures ahead of the Winter Olympics, after four COVID-19 infections, with both the Delta and Omicron variants, were detected in three days. ...
The State Council has approved a 20:1 pooled sampling approach for mass nucleic acid testing, as the country is facing a head-on challenge from the highly contagious Omicron variant.
China's postal administration on Monday vowed to "build a barrier" against COVID-19 cases imported through international express mail, after at least two Omicron cases, one in Beijing and another one in Shenzhen, were suspected of tracking back to packages from ...
Beijing, China's capital city, has beefed up COVID-19 prevention measures after the more contagious variant of the virus, Omicron, has appeared in the city, which is preparing to host the Winter Olympics in just three weeks.
Central China's Henan Province has recorded the most COVID-19 cases among provincial-level administrations nationwide during a single day, and it is also the only province in China that is battling both the Delta and Omicron variants.
As Omicron infections spread from Tianjin to Henan Province, several regions, including Beijing, urged residents to stay put during the upcoming Spring Festival, and tightened their COVID-19 prevention policies.
The first day of 2022 is brimming with blessings and joy, as five-starred red flags of China were raised across the country, in schools, snow-capped mountains, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Galwan Valley. And the farthest best wish was ...
China's Ministry of Civil Affairs announced that it had standardized in Chinese characters, Tibetan and Roman alphabet the names of 15 places in Zangnan (the southern part of China's Xizang), in accordance with regulations on geographical names issued by the ...
China is nearing herd immunity 85.64 percent of the Chinese population fully vaccinated ahead of the coming New Year and Spring Festival travel rush, which is expected to see passenger trips surpass the 1.48 billion taken in 2020, the National ...
Newly confirmed infections in Xi'an, home to the Terracotta Warriors in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, are expected to see a downward trend after a week, experts said, after the city on Monday hit a record high one-day number of new ...
China has received visa applications of several US officials to attend the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and will process their applications in accordance with international conventions, rules based on reciprocity principle, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, ...
Nurses spent Christmas this year in ICUs in France amid the Omicron surge, while thousands of flights were canceled globally due to the spread of the new variant, keeping many families apart. Many people around the world are tired and ...
Xi'an, the ancient city in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, started this month's third round of mass testing on 13 million people on Thursday following the highest number of positive COVID-19 cases found in a single day. It has also canceled ...
The modern counter-espionage TV series, Enemy, has hit Chinese social media, giving the public a glimpse of the always-secret espionage sector and serving as a good lesson for ordinary people to raise their vigilance against spies, especially those from the ...
China will study traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy to treat patients with the Omicron strain, experts with the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine said on Thursday.
The High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday has ordered Next Digital, the parent company of Apple Daily, founded by jailed Hong Kong secessionist Jimmy Lai, must be wound up according to relevant company laws, ...
The failure of the US to combat the COVID-19 epidemic and the Trump phenomenon are two vivid examples of the failure and incompetence of the American democratic political system, Chinese experts pointed out on Friday, slapping the so-called "Summit for ...
Less than two weeks since researchers from the University of Hong Kong succeeded in isolating the Omicron variant, it was delivered to the China CDC Thursday night to help the mainland speed up follow-up research, experiments and vaccine development.
More than 83,000 people have submitted applications for the Hong Kong Health Code in the first few hours of registration on Friday, delivering hope for cross-border commuters and businesspeople who are waiting for the border between the special administrative region ...
China's first home-developed anti-COVID-19 drug using “antibody cocktail therapy” has been approved for marketing, after being found to be effective in reducing the risk of hospitalization or death among high-risk COVID-19 patients by 80 percent. It also retains its neutralizing ...
A work group dispatched by the State Council has urged Manzhouli, a land port city in North China's Inner Mongolia - epicenter of this round of epidemic resurgence where 449 confirmed COVID-19 infections were registered - to further tighten up ...
Manzhouli, China's largest land port city in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is in the spotlight as the latest coronavirus flare-up has seen 142 new infections as of Wednesday, which was caused by contaminated imported goods. As a city ...
China Electronics Corp (CEC), a state-owned enterprise (SOE), released a new version of instant messaging and collaborative office platform in Beijing on Wednesday, aiming to provide a safer online work platform for government agencies and SOEs to prevent classified information ...
As the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region (HKSAR) are expected to resume quarantine-free travel soon, entrepreneurs and young people from South China's Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao said they are all yearning for the reopening of ...
As the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic has entered a stage of normalization, nucleic acid testing has become an essential part of life, allowing people in China to travel around freely. It is also a key measure for epidemic-affected regions ...
The violence and chaos brought by secessionists in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) two years ago highlighted the dangers and risks of the internet and media to social stability and national security, Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the ...
China's top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan said the country has fully vaccinated 1.08 billion people as of Wednesday, accounting for 76.8 percent of the total population and laying a solid foundation for achieving herd immunity by the end of this ...
Chinese celebrities, an Olympic champion and star athletes, as well as internet companies jointly issued an initiative, vowing to keep the cyberspace clean, fight online rumors, and speak for the public, at the China Internet Media Forum in Guangzhou, South ...
China's top internet regulator said on Tuesday that it will establish a negative list to prevent celebrity-related content from promoting distorted values, including abnormal aesthetics, vulgar scandals, and content that induces fans to blindly idolize celebrities or that hypes the ...
Internet regulators' moves to clean up the internet and judicial organs' crackdown on behavior to defame martyrs were selected as two of the 10 major events connected to China's cyberspace civilization construction in the new era at the first China ...
After the Chinese leader drew a red line with the US on the Taiwan question and warned it of not playing with fire, a bipartisan advisory body of the US Congress urged policymakers to take tougher measures in "strengthening the ...
While the West still suffers from a severe epidemic rebound and economic setbacks, China - where the latest COVID-19 resurgence has swept across 21 provinces and regions, the most severe wave since the Wuhan outbreak - reported new cases at ...
Ruili, a China-Myanmar border city in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, is ramping up efforts to adjust its anti-epidemic policy as a visiting national epidemic response group calls on the city to accelerate the establishment of a new epidemic prevention and ...
A working group from the State Council, China's cabinet, led by the head of National Health Commission (NHC) reached Dalian to guide its third cold-chain related local outbreak, where 163 positive cases have been reported in a week.
A Chinese representative will attend the Pakistan-hosted meeting on Afghanistan on Thursday, along with representatives from the US and Russia, and Chinese analysts believe that the four countries which could play a comprehensive role in addressing the plight of Afghanistan ...
Frontline Chinese anti-epidemic workers, who are grappling with dual threats posed by a sweeping cold wave and the COVID-19 epidemic, are winning kudos from society for their arduous work.
Evil flower in South Asia, lure of beauty, ghost war elephants roaming the Himalayas … To many people, these fantastic code names could only be heard in thrilling hacker movies.
Hackers from India have been caught actively launching cyberattacks targeting China's multiple sectors as well as individuals in the past two years during the epidemic, and their attacks are largely on the rise in the first half of 2021, the ...
Beijing reported four new positive COVID-19 cases on Tuesday who are from the same family living in Tiantongyuan, an enormous neighborhood in Beijing's Changping district reputed to be the largest residential area in Asia.
A systematic legal framework on the protection of personal data has been formed in China as the highly anticipated Personal Information Protection Law came into effect on Monday.
Yanshan County in East China's Jiangxi Province closed down a holiday resort, restrained traffic after one positive COVID-19 case working at a local holiday resort was reported.The county at one point said all traffic lights will be switched to red ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called on countries neighboring Afghanistan to take coordinated action to expand economic and trade exchanges with the country, stressing that more multilateral coordination and efforts are needed to help stabilize Afghanistan. ...
East China's Shandong Province where is known for its Confucian heritage halts cross-region tourism on Wednesday, becoming the latest province in China to activate a circuit-breaker measure amid spiking COVID-19 infections after Beijing, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ningxia ...
China stands in solidarity with Zimbabwe in a consistent call for the unconditional removal of Western sanctions. African ambassadors in Beijing thanked China for the positive support on the third Anti-Sanctions Day on Monday.
The ambassadors of Russia, Iran, Cuba, Zimbabwe and the African Union commended China's role in the UN for upholding multilateralism and being a responsible major power on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the People's Republic ...
The latest COVID-19 resurgence, which has spread into 11 Chinese provinces in just one week, was triggered by a new imported source identified as being of the Delta variant, according to officials from China's top health authority. Some Chinese epidemiologists ...
Northwest China's Gansu Province has suspended all tourism activities in a circuit-breaker measure after spiking COVID-19 cases, with all tourists in Lanzhou, where most COVID-19 cases in the province were reported, required to stay in wherever place they were and ...
A gas explosion on Sunday in a residential building in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, killed two and injured seven. It was the second gas explosion in Liaoning within a week.
Since two tourists originally from Shanghai were found COVID-19 positive in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province on October 16, this wave of epidemic resurgence has spilled to at least 10 provinces and municipalities as of Thursday. Virus gene sequencing of the ...
The “Moscow format” talks on Wednesday highlighted the prominent role of China-Russia coordination on the Afghan crisis when the US and some Western countries chose to evade responsibility, experts said, as Moscow gathered 10 countries and the Taliban to focus ...
Virus that has triggered new outbreaks of COVID-19 linked to a tour group of seniors from Shanghai that have affected several regions of China likely stemmed from overseas, Chinese health experts said, as more than 20 positive cases linked to ...
A region in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region bordering Mongolia closed port, rolled out mass nucleic acid tests for all residents on Tuesday morning as the region detected five confirmed COVID-19 infections that are linked to a cross-provincial tour ...
As the sun rises over the flooded areas in North China's Shanxi Province, the country's coal hub, woes over a downpour-exacerbated coal-fired power shortage are beginning to subside, as evidenced by the Global Times' onsite interviews in coal-mining regions.
Wenjiagou community, one of the most severe flood-stricken communities along the Fenhe River in North China's Shanxi Province, Jiexiu city was carpeted with sludge on Thursday as the Global Times visited the region.
Rescue and repair work for flood-stricken Pingyao Ancient City in North China's Shanxi Province is underway, and the plan is to make sure that damaged ancient walls are restored to their original state, the Global Times learned at the site ...
As water recedes, people's lives in flood-hit Shanxi Province are gradually returning to normal with coal mines and railways resuming operation.
All-hands-on-deck efforts and more concrete actions are needed to address the mental health of Chinese children and teenagers, representatives said at an event on Tuesday held by UNICEF themed on gaining awareness and support for mental health among adolescents.
As the seven-day National Day holidays end, booming nucleic acid testing across China has followed, with multiple regions in the country suggesting that holiday goers receive testing before returning to work or school.
Due to a turbulent political situation, worsening coronavirus infection, over 10,000 Chinese nationals are waiting at Ruili, a China-Myanmar border city to turn themselves in, in order to return to China, putting great pressure on the border city Ruili as ...
One day after Chinese war epic film The Battle at Lake Changjin about the Korean War (1950-53) debuted on Thursday, its box office has surpassed 431 million and broke five film history records as of press time.
Erkin Tuniyaz was appointed the acting chairman of the regional government of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Thursday, replacing Shohrat Zakir.
From a live-broadcast Martyrs' Day event, Chinese people brimming with joy over Meng Wanzhou's return, to long-expected patriotic movies and promising domestic travel amid epidemic flare-ups … Chinese people are about to embrace a very special National Day holiday to ...
McDonald's in Hong Kong apologized after it was slammed for being cold-blooded as its "crispy chicken wings" advertisement sparked an outrage for disrespecting a Hong Kong police officer who sacrificed her life during an anti-smuggling operation.
Actions speak louder than words, said Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe as the fourth batch of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines arrived in the African country during the weekend. The vaccine delivery was made amid US attempts to discredit Chinese investments by utilizing ...
The continuous activities from state-backed forces and organized crime have become the biggest threat to cyber security, warned Zhou Hongyi, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360 Technology Co, during the 2021 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit on Sunday, calling for ...
Epidemic in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province has further fermented as COVID-19 spreads to more nearby cities and counties beyond the capital city of Harbin over the weekend as the total positive COVID-19 infections rose to 40.
The city of Shanwei in South China's Guangdong Province took the lead in giving COVID-19 booster shots to key groups of people aged between 18 and 59 who have been fully vaccinated for six months, and more cities are about ...
To tame the spread of the coronavirus, regions across China are seeking people who have visited Harbin, the capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, while the city is going all-out to test its 10 million residents as it faces rising ...
Public health observers are confident that China's "zero tolerance" COVID-19 policy will safeguard the country to withstand epidemic flare-ups, although the outbreak in East China's Fujian Province is still intense and Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reported a fresh case on ...
China's sneaker manufacturing hub, the city of Putian in East China's Fujian Province, registered 64 new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections in the last two days - the latest outbreak in China that has cast a shadow over the upcoming national ...
Commenting on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the US, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday called on countries to cooperate in counter-terrorism efforts and avoid double standards and slander against other countries' legitimate counter-terrorism ...
Two more Chinese actors have been caught up in a social media controversy over alleged photos with war shrines in Japan, just weeks after a Chinese actor was boycotted over his visit to the notorious Japanese Yasukuni Shrine.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to commence a week-long official tour in four neighboring countries on Friday with the first stop in Vietnam, aiming to boost bilateral ties and cooperation in a wide range of ...
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 Huangpu district government in Guangzhou, capital city of South China's Guangdong Province, is recruiting global talent regardless of nationality for 14 positions with annual salaries as high as 2 million yuan ($309,643), to serve the development of the Guangdong-Hong ...
A new border checkpoint linking the Macao Special Administrative Region and the mainland's Guangdong Province officially opened on Wednesday, injecting new impetus into deepening cooperation between the mainland and the SAR and advancing the development of the Greater Bay Area.
After the US' embarrassing and hasty pullout from Afghanistan has led to heavy casualties among local civilians and terrorist attacks, Washington has decided to send its top diplomat and defense chief to visit the Middle East and Europe to ask ...
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.
Japan's defense authority has requested a record budget in 2022 amid an intensifying Indo-Pacific atmosphere, which experts viewed as a move against China, and serves to justify its military expansion under the cover of cooperating with US strategy and concerns ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday requested the US to stop offering a reward of $5 million for the arrest of a Chinese national described by the US as a transnational drug trafficker, as such a move undermines the foundation ...
The US completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan on Monday, ending 20 years of war and leaving the war-torn country with an uncertain future. Chinese representative to the UN stressed that withdrawal from Afghanistan is not the end ...
