Hydropower station has become an increasingly important bulwark for China when the country is striving to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. Located in one of China's most water and biodiversity rich province Yunnan and being the largest hydropower station in ...
The UK is in mourning as British people bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, on Monday, with deep grief and emotion. The State Funeral - the first since the death of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill ...
Chongqing, one of the "four furnaces" in China, is now feeling the scorching burn of China's strongest heat wave in six decades, with bushfires engulfing several mountains, and asphalt roads melting after intense baking. In order to overcome dilemmas such ...
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's “reckless” visit to Taiwan island on Tuesday not only raised tensions across the Taiwan Straits, but also keeps Southeast Asian countries on tenterhooks as several regional countries expressed concerns right after her arrival. ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has no plans to meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken although both are attending the 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and related meetings in Phnom Penh this week, Chinese Foreign ...
South Korea's new ambassador to China, Chung Jae-ho, emphasized mutual respect as the key principle in diplomatic relations between Beijing and Seoul at his inauguration on Monday. Chinese experts said that for bilateral relations to improve, South Korea must be ...
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 ...
The Shanghai Municipal People's Congress passed a decision on Thursday, banning employers from terminating contracts, or refusing to hire those who have suffered from infectious diseases. The city also curtailed the time period to check a person's nucleic acid test ...
The government of Beihai, Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, one of the most popular summer vacation destinations in China, is striving to answer the requests of more than 2,000 tourists, who were stranded there due to a sudden COVID-19 ...
US President Joe Biden concluded his four-day trip to the Middle East trying to give reassurances of Washington's influence in the region, which was riposted by Chinese observers as this trip only showed that US influence in this region is ...
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.
In move that experts said will diminish the impact of COVID-19 controls on international exchanges and domestic mobility, at least five Chinese cities have curtailed centralized quarantine periods for international arrivals from 14 days to 10 or seven days, Chinese ...
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, urged on Friday coordinated improvement to guarantee that officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to engage in corruption. He noted that the fight against ...
Beijing has not recorded coronavirus transmission outside the quarantined compounds for three consecutive days as of Saturday, and the transmission chain of the Heaven Supermarket bar-related outbreak has been squashed, said a city official.
The new Australia government recently launched what Chinese observers called a "charm offensive" and "salami tactics" trying to exclude China from this region, as Australia's foreign minister is scheduled to travel to the Solomon Islands on Friday, the third visit ...
After a two-month COVID-19 lockdown, Shanghai announced it would embrace a "new start" starting Wednesday (June 1), with free movement of people, resumption of public transportation, reopening of shopping malls, restart of factories, and the city is ready to regain ...
After a nearly three-month arduous battle, the Chinese mainland finally saw the daily tally of COVID-19 cases drop significantly, and Beijing and Shanghai edge toward full reopening. With cities gearing up to shake off the shadow cast by antivirus restrictions, ...
As Beijing and Shanghai are in tug of war against Omicron, a new guideline for home quarantine issued by the Beijing municipal government and shanghai government's move to relocate residents in the same compound to isolation centers if one person ...
Hong Kong will start clinical tests of Omicron-specific vaccines developed by Sinopharm and Sinovac in May, an expert on a Hong Kong government panel on vaccine effects, told the Global Times, adding that the vaccines are also likely to be ...
After the lockdown dragged into its fifth week, Shanghai has recorded a drop in the number of cases for consecutive days. The city on Wednesday decided to take what epidemiologists said was "a major step toward lifting the lockdown" to ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated French President Emmanuel Macron for winning reelection. Xi gave high credit to the development of bilateral relations in the past five years under Macron's governance, and stressed the stable development of ties has ...
Shanghai is seeing a glimmer of hope after battling the Omicron variant for almost a month and a half, with two districts announcing they have stamped out infections within communities, and the number found outside quarantine areas has fallen for ...
Ten deaths of COVID-19 patients in Shanghai in the past two days are sounding alarms in the city, which has a relatively low vaccination rates among provincial-level regions in the Chinese mainland. For the country at large, it is also ...
Several Chinese provinces, including Jilin and Shandong, swiftly landed on the track of resuming production and normal life after stamping out infections within communities.
Shanghai has been beefing up its COVID-19 preventions measures after a 3,000-official meeting on Wednesday night and vowed to adopt a strategy of what it termed "static management of the whole region," citywide nucleic acid testing as its officials admitted ...
In facing Omicron - a variant that is highly transmissible and could secretly create new COVID-19 outbreaks - China has been exploring new ways from the experiences it has accumulated over the past two years. The day when Shenzhen, dubbed ...
"We don't think sending weapons solves the situation [conflict between Russia and Ukraine] because we risk a third world war," said a representative of an Italian workers union that blocked arms shipments to Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian aid. ...
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 ...
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 ...
'It is very pleasant that we were caught on camera showing mutual support and friendship between peoples,' Russian freestyle skier Ilia Burov told the Global Times after a picture of him hugging Ukraine's Oleksandr Abramenko went viral on Internet. 'The ...
Hugs, thank-you letters, exchanges of gifts… As the biggest stage in sports in 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympics not only witnessed the fabulous moments of athletes competing for medals on the fields in the past 16 days, but also showed ...
The Beijing Winter Olympics have so far been successful in containing coronavirus within the closed-loop system, as just over 400 people tested positive as the Games draw to a close over the weekend. Such an outstanding result has won praise ...
Some countries attempted to incite a new round of tension with China and stir up new trouble on Tuesday, one year after Canada rounded up a small number of countries to issue a joint declaration on February 15, 2021 against ...
After testing positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Beijing for Winter Olympics, Swiss snowboarder Nicolas Huber began winning hearts of the Chinese public with his effort of rendering such small plight into something funny and inspiring in his videos.
As a country engulfed by heat, how has Pakistan, with less than 10 ski resorts, developed winter sports with its own unique characteristics and attracted tourists and athletes from home and abroad?
Even though Chinese Americans have been living in the US for more than 175 years, "we are still seen as perpetual foreigners," said the president of an elite group promoting China-US ties, who called for the federal state, local government ...
The dismissal of all charges against a Chinese-born MIT professor by the US Justice Department is a 'good sign,' and shows more US departments have realized its 'China Initiative' is nothing but academic racism and a self-destroying plan to ...
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.
With less than one month to go before the opening of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, widely and fondly known as the Beijing 2022 Games, the host city shows the world its confidence and readiness.
While China and the whole world is experiencing profound changes unseen in a century, the public tribute to late Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Sunday, the 128th anniversary of his birth, seems endowed with more significance. Many found the late ...
It's an end of an era, Chinese netizens said as they bade farewell to Angela Merkel, whose 16 years as German chancellor have come to an end. Many hailed “auntie” Merkel as one of the most “outstanding and pragmatic” Western ...
The visit to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine by an "unusually large" contingent of Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor 80 years ago, was mocked by analysts as a spit on US victory and denial of US ...
To understand today's China, one must learn to understand the Communist Party of China (CPC), Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated at a conference on understanding China on Thursday. Experts said that such a signal, sent at a time when the ...
The trial of Alton Spann, who was charged for murdering a Chinese graduate student at the University of Chicago (UC) along with other accusations, will be held on Tuesday, or Wednesday Beijing time. As the legal process could be long, ...
The goal of reaching carbon neutrality before 2060 can help China avoid $134 trillion in climate change losses by 2100, said a study from Tsinghua University, which estimates that the country suffers from $50 billion financial losses annually caused by ...
Just as some parts of the world have been poised for living with the COVID-19 virus with relaxed epidemic prevention restrictions and re-opened borders, the Omicron variant has brought the process to a juddering halt.
US media reports of SARS-CoV-2 spreading among animals are an alarming sign of the propagation of the COVID-19 pandemic, virologists warned, urging scientists to race against time to find the origins of the virus, and warning certain countries to stop ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday at a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden that China will be compelled to take resolute measures, should the separatist forces for "Taiwan independence" "provoke us, force our hands or even cross ...
The West did not play fair by chiding China and India for changing the wording of a coal deal at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, climate scientists said, noting that many developing countries still don't have enough energy supply. To solve ...
Nearly 200 countries seized humanity's "last and best chance" at the COP26 climate summit, during which they reached an agreement to curtail the worsening impact of carbon emissions on the climate, including keeping the all-important goal of 1.5 C alive. ...
In an exclusive interview with the Global Times, Beate Trankmann, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative in China, said that China is in a strong position to share its expertise and makes decisive contributions to the global fight against ...
China has made great contributions to global climate governance through its green development, participation in international negotiations, and multilateral cooperation. During the COP26, the Global Times (GT) reporters Shan Jie, Chen Qingqing and Zhao Yusha talked with Xu Huaqing ...
Career diplomat Nicholas Burns will likely assume his post as US ambassador to China as early as by the end of November, Chinese observers said, after he was approved on Wednesday by a US Senate committee. Experts warned that Burns ...
US President Joe Biden, who showed up at COP26 empty-handed, has tried to turn the summit into a "political show" by repeatedly name-checking Chinese and Russian leaders, so he is the real culprit in ceding the effect of negotiations, analysts ...
Though they have the world's highest per-capita greenhouse gas emissions and transfer polluting companies to less developed regions, in terms of confronting climate change, developed countries continue to shift the blame to developing countries, and have failed to fulfill their ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called on all parties to take stronger actions to jointly tackle the climate challenge in a written statement for the World Leaders Summit at the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) ...
On the same day when the highly expected COP26 convened, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed at a G20 session that concrete actions are essential for international community to properly respond to outstanding global challenges of climate change and energy issue, ...
Ahead of the COP26, China issues a white paper to share with the world its achievements and experience in tackling climate change
Cooperation with China has become indispensable for ASEAN as the bloc is facing new challenges of saving their economies that have been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, its stability and security challenged by a turbulent Myanmar and by the US, ...
Chinese netizens flooded social media with tributes to national heroes' sacrifice for the country's peace and prosperity, as well as China's dedication to safeguarding the international order and world peace, as anniversaries of the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) army firing ...
China will build more national parks in important ecological areas, including the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, the Yellow River basin, the Yangtze River Basin and the sea, after considering China's ecological security needs and public concerns, Tang Xiaoping, chief of the Institute ...
The annual Tien Lung drill in Taiwan island aimed at bolstering its defense and morale was mocked by military experts as a show that will take a toll on its outmoded jets and wear out its pilots. They said it ...
The new tripartite defense alliance AUKUS, formed with the intention of intimidating China, will strain ASEAN's unity and integration as regional countries are divided over the pact, experts said Wednesday, noting that if it sparks an arms race, it threatens ...
China vowed to strengthen its own biodiversity protection and release implementation plans for peaking carbon dioxide emissions while investing 1.5 billion yuan ($233 million) to support biodiversity protection in developing countries at the biggest biodiversity conference in a decade on ...
China on Tuesday announced it would formally establish its first batch of five national parks, including the Sanjiangyuan National Park, the Wuyi Mountain National Park, the Giant Panda National Park, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park and the ...
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 ...
The State Council, China's cabinet, has unveiled the outlines of a development plan for women and children over the coming decade that aims to boost the birth rate by achieving a gender-equal society.
Sobering air raid sirens in numerous cities, silent tributes observed by ordinary Chinese on streets across the country, airing of documentaries about trials of Japanese war criminals on national television and countless messages of "never forget" on social media platforms ...
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly denounced UK Parliament's banning of China's ambassador from attending events, and has vowed that China will take "necessary responses." Analysts predicted responses may include temporarily terminating or suspending certain exchanges between the two ...
Harry Potter rides, the Jurassic World Adventure and Minion Land… Chinese social media platforms were flooded with posts and photos posted by the lucky visitors to the Universal Beijing Resort theme park during its trial opening starting September 1. This ...
As the race to fill the seat of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) heats up, bashing China, the most focal point of this election, is also gaining momentum among candidates, with ...
On various occasions, senior Chinese diplomats urged the US to put a lid on its "toxic" political atmosphere at home and stop treating China as a threat and opponent, which analysts said sends a clear signal to Washington that healthy ...
Schools all over China on Wednesday began the routine procedure of welcoming their students' return. Yet this semester is special.
China demonstrated responsibility in coping with the climate issue, and willingness to enhance cooperation with the US on this task, by inviting US climate envoy John Kerry twice to China to discuss about climate change, said analysts. But the analysts ...
China's new school year will begin after the Ministry of Education on Monday issued new requirements, including limiting the number of exams among students, as part of China's ongoing "strongest moves in decades" to ease the burden on students.
The 'Summit for Democracy' to be convened by the US serves only its goal of lulling certain countries together to challenge China, creating deeper confrontation between different ideological camps, which shows Washington's tendency to 'weaponize democracy, and insult the word ...
A Chinese net user's post suggesting "COVID city" to fend off the virus to maintain China's zero domestic infection approach, which was ignored by most Chinese and ridiculed by some who noticed the post, was reported by Asia Times on ...
This summer's main event - the Tokyo Olympic Games - has witnessed the legendary performances of Chinese athletes. At the same time, the Chinese audience is becoming more and more mature, bidding farewell to the "medal-first" mentality. But obviously, some ...
In roughly 48 hours after only seven domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases were detected, Wuhan, a city of 11 million, announced citywide nucleic acid testing, canceled offline education activities and halved tourist flows at major scenic spots. To other parts of ...
Senior US officials' "unusually frequent" visits to the Southeast Asian nations expose both Washington's anxiety and declining confidence in marshaling regional countries against China, analysts said, after US Vice President Kamala Harris, hard on the heels of Secretary of State ...
Late Wednesday night, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that the US Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman, will visit North China's Tianjin from July 25 to 26, a visit arranged after the US proposal to exchange views on China-US relations. ...
The whole country has been brimming with warmth and joy after a Chinese father's cross-country, 24-year search for his missing son finally had a happy ending. The story of the family's reunion also pushed China's nationwide DNA database of missing ...
As the security threats of the US military's hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan spills over to neighboring countries, Chinese foreign minister has scheduled visits to three Central Asian countries upon invitation, and will discuss with Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) officials about ...
The number of members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) totals 95.148 million as of June 5, 2021, an increase of 3.234 million compared with the figure from the end of 2019, according to data released by the Organization ...
With a dazzling light show illuminating the night sky of the Chinese capital Beijing, thousands of drones soaring simultaneously into the sky in the southern city of Shenzhen to form scenes of momentous events in the history of the Communist ...
As the Communist Party of China (CPC) prepares to celebrate its centennial this week, Chinese government bodies and society alike are holding various activities, from preparing for the grand celebration to light shows in multiple cities, to activities that recall ...
Outspoken Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye has drawn attention recently for being the first Chinese diplomat to justify China's "self-defense" diplomacy amid foreign media's groundless speculation that making a "lovable" China would mean abandoning the so-called "wolf-warrior" diplomatic style.
Brisk crayfish sales in June – boosted by nighttime viewing of the European Football Championship matches – have greatly improved the business of crayfish farmers from Central China's Hubei Province, further pushing the province's recovery following a robust first quarter, ...
'Wolf warrior' is a form of praise in China, which symbolizes warriors who fight for their country, according to China's ambassador to France, noting that he is proud to be endowed with the title and he is determined to stand ...
Twenty years ago, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was established by the side of the Huangpu River of Shanghai in June 2001. Over the past two decades, SCO has played an important role in Eurasian and international affairs. Up to ...
A group of Taiwan people have sued Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's regional leader, and others in her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for politicalizing the pandemic to benefit themselves. One scholar accused them of adopting policies which "severely endanger people's lives and ...
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, ...
China has the willingness, capacity and resources to help India and other South Asian countries that are grappling with the new wave of COVID-19 cases, said the president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).
Leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states, observer states, and dialogue partners as well as representatives of non-governmental friendship organizations, have held in-depth discussions on topics such as think tank exchanges, sister city cooperation, health, rural development and poverty ...
Chinese vaccines are better than others to Pakistani people, as they have been tested and produced with Asian genes and circumstances in mind, said the president of Pakistan's Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies.
By emphasizing unity of jointly weathering COVID-19 pandemic, and boosting economic recovery and cooperation on international and regional issues, the BRICS Foreign Ministers virtual meeting on Tuesday was seen by observers as sending a strong signal of bloc members' desire ...
The US Embassy and consulates in China resumed visa appointments for students earlier this month, but restrictions on those with high-tech backgrounds remain in place. Such restrictions are even extended to students whose parents work in the security, immigration and ...
China to regulate all cannabinoid substances, the country's National Narcotics Control Commission (NNCC) announced on Tuesday. This marks China the first country in the world to do so, and also shows the country's continued efforts to crack down on new ...
China will use an 'isolation strip' atop Mount Qomolangma to cordon off the north slope of the world's highest mountain, a move to prevent the spread of the coronavirus via climbers ascending from Nepal's side of the mountain, as the ...
China's consumption engine has almost completely recovered to post-pandemic levels, as shown by surging spending on items from travel products to duty-free goods during the 2021 May Day holidays, which witnessed the country's largest population movement after last year's National ...
Due to thunderstorms in central, southeast and southwest China, more than 2,600 flights were cancelled across China on Monday, the third day of the country's five-day Labor Day holiday, causing serious disruptions for air travelers at several major airports.
The US embassy and consulates in China are scheduled to open visa appointments for Chinese students on May 4, after Washington announced easing of travel restrictions for foreign students.
More than 80 percent of people surveyed in China said they are willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the result of a poll released on "China Prophylactic Vaccination Day," saying that the respondents' willingness to be inoculated against ...
At the invitation of US President Joe Biden, President Xi Jinping will attend and deliver an important speech at the leaders' climate summit on Thursday via video link in Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday morning.
Between China and the US signing a joint statement to address the climate crisis last week and US President Joe Biden's virtual climate summit to tout his administration's green policies this week, top US diplomat Antony Blinken fired unkind signals ...
By inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping to a climate summit, endorsing China's ambitious carbon neutrality plan and eye-watering economic growth, leaders from Germany and France, Europe's major countries, sent positive signals of saving ties between Beijing and Brussels out of ...
China is expected to be the topic that dominates the upcoming talks between US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Observers see this meeting would be more of a test, rather than a diplomatic accomplishment for Suga, ...
By inviting US climate envoy John Kerry to Shanghai to discuss climate issues, China has demonstrated its ambition in global climate governance, and also sent a signal to the US that climate negotiations between the two are on equal terms, ...
Half a century ago, no one expected the visit of a group of American table tennis players to China would change the global landscape so dramatically. Now, with China and the US back in a period of such uncertainty in ...
Forty years after China joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the country has made enormous efforts to make sure 85 percent of key protected wildlife are under effective protection, the State ...
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and observers have urged Turkey to stay vigilant against a small group of politicians who try to exploit Xinjiang-related issues for selfish political purposes, after bickering between Ankara and Beijing was caused by Turkish opposition ...
During the time when a slew of hostile moves and statements from Japan has pushed its relations with Beijing to a new crossroads, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's 90-minute phone call with his Japanese counterpart was called ...
With bilateral relations at a new crossroad, a message sent by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to his Japanese counterpart was a "timely reminder" for Tokyo to stop heading in the wrong direction and pull ties to ...
If WHO scientists cannot find the answer in China regarding coronavirus origins, maybe it's time for scientists to dig somewhere else and test more hypotheses to solve the mystery, Chinese scientists from the WHO-China virus tracing team suggested, after a ...
The tit-for-tat sanctions between China and the EU intensified on Tuesday as more Western countries, including the US, Canada and the UK, joined the EU in slapping sanctions on China, and China summoned the EU and UK ambassadors to China ...
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 ...
High-profile China hawk European politicians, including certain German parliamentarians, are likely to be included in China's countermeasures against EU's planned sanctions over Xinjiang, Chinese observers said ahead of the EU's signing off of punitive measures directed at China on Monday. ...
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 ...
While the WHO is expected to publish the much-anticipated joint report on field studies in Wuhan next week, Liang Wannian, team leader of the Chinese side of the WHO-China joint expert team, talked with the Global Times in an exclusive ...
After releasing what was deemed as the "most acrimonious" joint statement signed by the US and Japan on Tuesday, the Chinese foreign ministry lashed out at Japan for "downgrading as the US' strategic appendage."
The UK issued its biggest review of foreign and defense policy since the end of the Cold War on Tuesday, in which it vowed to cement the country's presence in the Indo-Pacific region and challenge China where necessary. Yet the ...
China is eyeing a progressive, flexible and differentiated path to raising the retirement age, a senior expert from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) has revealed. Demographers believe that raising the retirement age is partly intended to ...
Chinese lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to adopt a decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) at the closure of the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top ...
After he stepped down from office, Donald Trump might have faded away from Chinese people's minds. But instead, a statue of Donald Trump as Buddha is trending on an online shopping platform, with the slogan “make your company great again!”
Senior US officials have filled their mid-March calendars with a slew of visits and discussions with their Asian allies, including the US defense secretary's visit to India, and President Joe Biden's virtual meeting with Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) leaders. The ...
Thanks to a nano-carrier research breakthrough, Chinese scientists, including top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, have embarked on developing an advanced type of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, which can be preserved for half a year under the condition of two to eight degrees ...
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 ...
To tackle China's low rate of organ donation, a lawmaker suggested including organ donation rate in the criteria for determining a civilized city, meaning a city's organ donation rate must surpass the previous year's national average donation rate to meet ...
To tackle China's low rate of organ donation, a lawmaker suggested including organ donation into the criteria for a civilized city, and that a city's organ donation rate must surpass last year's national average donation rate to meet the standard. ...
More African countries are starting to roll out COVID-19 vaccination programs with the arrival of China-donated vaccines. Observers said that China has played a crucial role in addressing the uneven global vaccination situation, and with more Chinese vaccines making progress, ...
By publishing an opinion piece that's lacking in evidence and laden with fallacies co-authored by former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, the Worst Secretary of State Ever, who simply wants to keep his political profile after stepping down, the ...
As the numbers of COVID-19 cases across the globe have dropped for a fifth consecutive week in 2021, Chinese scientists interpreted the encouraging signs, including the worst-hit UK rolling out lockdown lift plans, as a possible "tapering-off" of the pandemic ...
From Golden Age partner to a vanguard that attacks China on various fronts, the US factor is the biggest influence behind the freezing China-UK ties, said Chinese observers. They pointed out that London is striving to stand up in the ...
As the situation intensifies in Myanmar, which is bracing for the largest anti-coup protest yet after bloody clashes, Chinese observers urged outside countries, such as the US, to stop “pouring oil on the fire,” and encouraged ASEAN to play a ...
Robust consumption during the Year of the Ox Spring Festival holidays, with crowded cinemas and scenic sites seen across the country amid a stay-put policy introduced to ward off a possible winter spike of COVID-19, again validated strong consumer confidence ...
The phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden on Chinese New Year's Eve serves as a tone-setter for future bilateral relations in short term and shows that the two sides are willing to push bilateral ...
The 2020 Spring Festival did not go as Wuhan people had expected. On Chinese New Year's eve last year, the 11-million-population city was put into a lockdown unparalleled in modern society that lasted for 76 days. A year on, the ...
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 People's Liberation Army (PLA) handed over a patch of COVID-19 vaccines to Pakistan army on Sunday, which marks the first foreign army to receive vaccines provided by Chinese army.
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 ...
The impressive 92 percent protection rate of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine offers an opportunity for China and Russia, the two shepherds of global COVID-19 vaccine developers, to join hands on world vaccine distribution, help ease the white-hot global vaccine scuffle, ...
The US once again waved its stick of sanctions on Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country neighboring India and China, with "democracy and freedom" as its silver bullet, following Myanmar army's detention of Myanmar leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi and ...
India, which has reported the second highest number of COVID-19 cases worldwide, could take more than 10 years to finish its nationwide vaccination at the current rate, neztizens said, in response to the Indian prime minister's boast that the country ...
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 ...
A virtual meeting between the top epidemiologists of China and the US, Zhong Nanshan and Anthony Fauci, aims to kick off official cooperation on fighting the pandemic, a move hailed by experts as a warming sign amid frozen ties.
When residents in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, look back to the first one or two weeks after the city entered an unprecedented lockdown on January 23, 2020, some remember those days as a struggle with a feeling of helplessness ...
A year ago, Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first reported in China, made a decision that has little parallel in modern society: to lock down the city of 11 million. During the 76-day lockdown, the city struggled to save lives ...
A year on, when looking back at the decision to seal off Wuhan, many people in Wuhan and across China feel "grateful" for the government's decisive measures, which effectively and quickly stunted viral spreading. They believe it was incontrovertibly the ...
A year ago, Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first reported in China, made a decision that has little parallel in modern society: to lock down the city of 11 million. During the 76-day lockdown, the city struggled to save lives ...
On the first day when Joe Biden sits behind the Resolute desk, what would be waiting for the 46th president of the US would probably be tons of documents and classified files describing how huge the coronavirus disaster this country ...
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, ...
Indian media started hyping China's construction of a village in a "disputed area," saying the construction was built within Indian territory, which New Delhi is concerned about. But a Chinese expert said the move stirs anti-China sentiment, as the construction ...
As China again faces sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks, the country has compiled a book that aims to provide guidelines for hospitals in handling public health emergencies, borrowing from the COVID-19 response experience of a Wuhan hospital.
The declassification of the Trump administration's strategy in the Indo-Pacific region shows it intends to pressure Joe Biden to continue its hawkish policy toward China, said Chinese observers, urging the upcoming US government, when dealing with issues in the region, ...
Global Times learned from sources that India has returned the Chinese soldiers who got lost along China-India border on January 8 morning and were held by the Indian military.
China confirmed a lost Chinese soldier in the border areas was found by India and called for an immediate return of the soldier, according to China's frontier forces on Saturday.
The violent scene in WashingtonDC won't overturn the result of the US presidential election or disrupt the US government's transition of power, as President Donald Trump may have wished, but would hasten his accountability after Joe Biden takes office, said ...
China's latest national epidemiological serum survey, which showed the positive rate of coronavirus antibodies in Wuhan was 4.43 percent, has become a point of attack by the foreign media against the Chinese government for underreporting during the initial stages of ...
China and the European Union (EU) are pushing for the inking of the sweeping Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), despite a rising number of hurdles during the negotiation and the increasing pressure from third parties, such as the US, said ...
A total of 24,112 organs have been donated by Chinese citizens after their deaths from January 2015 to December 2019, and the per-million population of organ donations have climbed from 2.01 in 2015 to 4.16 in 2019, according to a ...
It is less than a month to go for US President Donald Trump, yet he and his administration continue to ratchet up confrontations with China, with the latest targeting companies with possible military connections and hitting Chinese officials with new ...
A "new variant" of coronavirus detected in the UK won't have a major impact on the country's massive vaccination program, predicted a Chinese epidemiologist, noting that the case should serve as a reminder for countries to maintain surveillance of and ...
There is a series of evidence on coronavirus being found in Italy before December 2019, including the latest regarding a 4-year-old boy found to have contracted the virus in November 2019, which some experts believe indicates that a COVID-19 outbreak ...
Mount Qomolangma, commonly known in the West as Mount Everest, has a new official height, with top leaders from China and Nepal, the two countries the world's highest peak straddles, jointly announcing the historic result: 8,848.86 meters at the top ...
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.
The Southwest Chinese city of Chengdu was on high alert after a local COVID-19 case was found on Sunday. The local government sealed off the hospital where the patient received treatment, conducted an overall epidemiological survey, and traced and quarantined ...
Experts from the two sides of Taiwan Straits say reunification between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan will not be realized without pressure, and even peaceful reunification won't be realized without military pressure.
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.
No matter how successfully China has contained the spread of the coronavirus with all-out efforts and how the country has passed on its experiences of handling the pandemic to the world in a timely manner, some Western media has not ...
Few people were out on the streets for the cold and rainy weather in Wuhan on Saturday, but there was hustle and bustle in one venue.
It has been a year since Freddi Gaoseb, Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of Namibia in China, first came to Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province. The moment he set his foot in the city, he couldn't hold back ...
As the world is struck by the COVID-19 pandemic, industries have been suspended around the world, leaving many jobless. The deadly virus has hampered the BRI to an extent, but the initiative has not only been functioning well amid the ...
The award ceremony of the Second Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) Short Video Competition was held in Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province, aiming to share the stories of builders and beneficiaries from countries along the BRI, who help to ...
On the heels of signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's biggest free trade agreement, China is ushering in its busiest multilateral diplomatic season this year as its leading role is once again highlighted in a slew of ...
The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest free trade agreement (FTA), will give strong momentum to the development of the world's COVID-19-battered economy and cement regional cooperation within East Asia, which has emerged strongest ...
Sporadic COVID-19 flare-ups in Chinese cities will not lead to a higher possibility of larger-scale outbreaks as winter approaches, said Chinese epidemiologists, after confirmed cases emerged in two Chinese cities in succession. However, experts urged countries where coronavirus is rife ...
One of China's vaccine developers announced on Saturday that it has launched the Phase III clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine in Mexico and has successfully vaccinated the first group of subjects.
The incumbent US President Donald Trump continued to lose ground in the presidential race as his opponent Joe Biden established leads in major swing states. However, the Trump campaign is making its last-ditch efforts to challenge the results by going ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) vowed to grasp new opportunities as the country is in a major strategic development period, although both opportunities and challenges the country faces have changed, reads the communique of the fifth plenary session of ...
A new round of lockdowns in Europe and parts of the US have dashed hopes in the West of an early recovery this year, Chinese observers said. But they believe China, the country that emerged from the pandemic the strongest, ...
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, health institutes in China are committed to refining their health systems, such as enhancing surveillance and warning systems of contagious disease, and improving the quality of medical staff, which will prepare China's health ...
Mounting evidence and studies point to imported cold-chain products as the source of COVID-19 flare-ups in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Qingdao, a finding that one Chinese virologist said may help solve the puzzle of the coronavirus origin.
Public willingness to take flu vaccines will be dented by deaths and adverse reactions reported in countries such as South Korea and Singapore, said experts, and this could be a heavy blow to the world's fight against COVID-19, especially when ...
Coming at a sensitive time with the US Presidential election just a week away and while India is still entangled in border tensions with China, Chinese observers said Tuesday's third 2+2 ministerial dialogue between New Delhi and Washington is more ...
China and the Vatican decided on Thursday to extend a provisional agreement on bishops appointment by two years, Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Thursday, marking a big step toward what insiders said greater and deeper future ties between the two sides. ...
The renewal of a provisional bishop agreement between China and the Vatican not only reflects strong and healthy momentum between the two countries in bishop appointment, but also carries special importance of the Holy See's goodwill to move forward relations ...
China's domestically developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has released platform 2.0, which supports 1.2-meter accuracy and lane level positioning, and experts said that these specifications have endorsed the system's ability to compete in the same ring as GPS.
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it has detected and isolated living coronavirus in a positive sample from the outer packaging of imported frozen cod, progress that virologists said could push forward research into the virus' origin, ...
US President Donald Trump's positive test result for ”the SARS-CoV-2 virus” will possibly favor him if he recovers before the election, as it makes him the sole focus of the US political circle as the election date looms only one ...
Hong Kong murder suspect Chan Tong-kai ̶ whose case lead to the proposed extradition bill that sparked months of social unrest in Hong Kong last year ̶ has notified his lawyer on the island of Taiwan to ...
Chinese observers and netizens believe mass COVID-19 infections in the Indian army, including its border troops, may sway the border situation, as more than 10,000 of its border troops have caught the virus.
The renewal of an agreement between China and the Vatican on the appointment of bishops will contribute to the development of Chinese Catholic churches, and signal to the world that China's Catholic churches could continue healthy development under the agreement, ...
Tibetan people, officials and experts have pointed out the many flaws in accusations of a "mass labor program in Tibet" fabricated by the notorious Adrian Zenz, a self-proclaimed Tibet and Xinjiang researcher, and Western media. These include grafting Tibetan government ...
In the face of certain countries' technology crackdowns on China, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has rolled out a talent cultivation campaign, which focuses on key technologies as well as plans to nurture urgently needed talent in “unusual ways,” in ...
Six hundred years on, the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, does not only have cultural meaning for Chinese people, who believed they live in a world of unprecedented turmoil.
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday morning presented a national medal and honorary titles to four people for their outstanding contribution to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic.
Schools reopen; domestic travel reaches pre-pandemic level; the government sums up experience in the virus fight and rewards those who fought the virus…emerging signs suggest that COVID-19 is ending in China, spawning a question of who was behind the country's ...
Adding fuel to the fire of Hong Kong's coronavirus flare-up, opposition groups organized illegal gatherings in Kowloon on Sunday morning, which were held under the guise of protesting postponed Legislative Council (LegCo) elections and the national security law.
