Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has called for efforts to further develop traditional Chinese medicine.

The National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention will start to operate from Thursday, signaling that Chinese CDC's role of preventing disease will expand to more areas including promoting public health and drafting disease prevention policies.

China had more than 4.7 million registered nurses by the end of 2020, the National Health Commission said on International Nurses Day, which falls on Wednesday.

Tarantulas, an endangered spider species, were found by scientists in a national nature reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Tuesday.

Public criticism has not receded after a safari park in East China's Hangzhou admitted it had covered up for weeks the escape of three juvenile leopards.

Contrary to the unfounded allegations in Western media in recent years, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has focused on the development of ethnic education policies and actively implemented bilingual teaching in Putonghua and Mongolian.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) responded on Wednesday to some questions and doubts from Chinese netizens about the reliability of the data of the seventh national population census.

Now that the 30-page seventh national population census communiqué which contains thousands of figures has been released, what is behind the data and what does it reveal about the true picture of China's demographic changes? How strong should China's population ...

Chinese observers slammed the US as being hypocritical and having double standards in its flaunting advocacy of press freedom, as Chinese journalists stationed in the US suffered from political oppression while Western media continued to hype China's so-called media manipulation.

Amid global concerns over the variant found in India that appears to be of high infectiousness and transmissibility, Chinese experts said Chinese vaccine manufacturers will be able to produce suitable vaccines against the variant in about two months.

China and its Central Asian partners will strengthen cooperation on fighting 'Three Evils' - terrorism, separatism and religious extremism - in the future to safeguard the regional peace and stability after US military troops withdraw from Afghanistan, as the pullout ...

The Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) voted on Wednesday to approve the bill on public servants' candidacies and taking up offices, requiring all district councilors to swear allegiance as soon as next month. The ...

Several famous US universities, including Harvard and Columbia, have recognized the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinopharm following the approval of the vaccine's emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Wednesday inspected the city of Nanyang, central China's Henan Province.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently conducted a live-fire exercise in which reconnaissance drones guided helicopters in missile attacks on maritime targets beyond visual range, a technique that can boost combat efficiency, bring up the maximum potential of missiles ...

Earthquake safety monitoring systems used in nuclear power plants and high-speed railways independently developed by a Hubei company have reached world level standards and reportedly account for a large market share in China.

The tragedy of a 16-year-old student, who fell to his death at a high school in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, touched a nerve and stirred a huge online response from the public as netizens criticized the school's and local educational ...

Communities across China have tightened bans on electric bicycles in elevators and the residential buildings. Some have resorted to smart devices after the explosion of a battery inside an elevator in Southwest China injured five people, leaving two in the ...

China's once-a-decade census results were released Tuesday, signaling a critical turning point as the country's population ages rapidly while the overall growth rate slows, bucking a five-decade trend. The data will serve as an important reference for adjustments to China's ...

China's Ministry of Education, together with 14 other state departments, rolled out a guideline at a press conference on Tuesday to tackle growing cases of short-sightedness in children and adolescents by clamping down on issues like online gaming addiction and ...

Honduras, one of the last 15 countries and regions that keep "diplomatic ties" with the island of Taiwan, said Monday that its neighboring country El Salvador will help it to get the Chinese mainland vaccine as the COVID-19-hit country in ...

The Taiwan secessionist authority has failed to receive an invitation from the World Health Assembly (WHA) for the fifth consecutive year even as the US and its other major Western countries voiced their support to the island earlier this month, ...

China deserves to have a voice on the global stage, and it must speak up against the US discourse hegemony that often serves to throw dirt on China, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday in response ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) labeled the SAR-CoV-2 variant first identified in India as "a variant of global concern," which shows that the mutation may be more transmissible, be more likely to cause infections, and more potent than current vaccines, ...

In recent years, the CPC has met increasingly hostile attacks from the West. Why did it happen? Where did the CPC's resilience come from? Global Times reporters Xie Wenting and Bai Yunyi (GT) interviewed Martin Jacques.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently held a mock battle between a group of aircraft carrier-borne fighter jets and a land-based joint warplane formation, as the two sides became the whetstone for each other and honed the forces' capabilities ...

A group of university students from East China's Jiangsu Province were given prison sentences of up to two-and-a-half years for fraud after they took advantage of loopholes in KFC's mobile applications to obtain free meals and make profits, and caused ...

Calls to adjust population policies such as removing the decades-long family planning policy mounted among some demographers on Tuesday, after the country released its once-a-decade population census results, which showed that the Chinese mainland's population is growing more slowly and ...

The so-called 'democracy conference' held in Copenhagen, hosted by an organization known for spreading rumors and lies about China, is "a downright political farce" filled with ideological prejudices, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Tuesday.

The person in charge of a cleaning project in which two workers died after a gust of wind hit them while cleaning the façade of a building in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province on Monday afternoon has been detained, media ...

Two foreign tourists were added to a blacklist in Beijing for violating regulations and crossing an undeveloped section of the Mutianyu Great Wall, with the scenic spot on Tuesday calling for more protection of the Great Wall from tourists.

China recorded 12 million births in 2020, marking a drop for the fourth consecutive year, while some Chinese demographers warned that China's number of newborns is likely to drop to below 10 million in a few years, and if no ...

Korean composer Zheng Lvcheng was one of the pioneers of China's proletarian revolutionary music. Zheng fell in deep love with the vibrant and youthful Yan'an after arriving there and wrote the famous “Ole to Yan'an.”

Key figures from 7th national pop. census: -Total grew to 1.412 bln in 2020, with annual growth of 0.53% in last decade -Average age stood at 38.8 in 2020, compared with 38 in US -Ethnic minorities accounted for 8.89%, up 0.4 pct points ...

A woman whose 17-year-old son fell to his death at school on Mother's Day vowed to continue seeking the truth after the school and local health authorities in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, released statements ruling out the possibility of ...

The figures released at China's seventh national population census are more abundant compared with that from the sixth census, requiring a longer preparation time, and China's population undercount rate is lower than international standards, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ...

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government is planning to sign an agreement with the city of Shenzhen and South China's Guangdong Province that will allow civil servants in Hong Kong to take temporary positions in mainland administrative institutions, HKSAR ...

Average age of Chinese population stands at 38.8 in 2020, compared to 38 in US

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 ...

Ethnic minority population in the Chinese mainland reached 125 million in 2020, accounting for 8.89% of the total population, up 0.4 percentage points compared with 2010, according to the latest population census.

The population of Chinese mainland grew to 1.412 billion in 2020, up from 1.4 billion at the end of 2019, according to the results of its once-a-decade population census, which were released when China's population development entered a critical turning ...

Four crew members die as a helicopter crashed Monday morning into a lake in Dali, Yunnan province.

The US military apparently hired a mysterious Norwegian civilian ship for close reconnaissance in China, near the island of Taiwan, and in the South China Sea, analysts warned on Monday.

As US President Joe Biden plans for a Summit for Democracy by the end of the year, a non-governmental Western organization is scheduled to hold a "summit" to help Biden's summit in setting the agenda, and the "summit" invited a ...

Faced with growing calls for a national lockdown and pressure from the opposition, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has yet to find the right balance between economic recovery and epidemic control.

The US, together with a few other countries, is using the venues of the UN to hype topics of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a move that has nothing to do with the UN but only "desecrates it," Chinese Foreign ...

The 14-year-old pig, a survivor of the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and regarded as a miracle of life, is near its last days, said the local museum which has been taking care of it since the disaster. Chinese netizens sent ...

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 ...

The US' fussiness over China's Long March-5B debris' re-entry, fully displayed in Western media reports that spared no effort in painting a "catastrophic aftermath," has mounted to a new high as NASA's newly appointed chief Bill Nelson openly criticized China's ...

The grave epidemic situation in India, the world's largest vaccine producer, the WHO's approval of Chinese vaccines for emergency use, lingering questions on whether the US can really deliver its promise to provide vaccines to the world, all these have ...

Before the Hangzhou Safari Park in East China's Zhejiang Province finally admitted that three leopards had escaped from the park, the predators - also first-class national protected animals - had wandered around one of China's most populous cities for more ...

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently held a joint cross-sea landing drill with multiple service branches and practiced the coordinated operations among several amphibious landing units, including dock landing ship, armored vehicle and hover landing craft, boosting the troops' ...

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday again expressed strong opposition to the US' support for allowing the island of Taiwan to attend the World Health Assembly (WHA), as it violates the one-China principle and provisions of the Three China-US ...

China conducted close monitoring and tracking work throughout the re-entry of the Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket remnants on Sunday, and had shared a relevant forecast via international cooperation mechanisms, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday, refuting NASA chief ...

It is the US that is conducting biological warfare and bioterrorism using genetic engineering technology, rather than China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday in response to a media report accusing China of weaponizing COVID-19.

In Southwest China's Yunnan Province, the reservoir of Jinghong Hydropower Station sparkled with green waves merging with the blue sky of late April when diplomats from the Mekong countries paid a visit. This gave them a complete new perception of ...

All four crew members were killed after a helicopter crashed in Erhai Lake in Dali, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, during a firefighting operation on Monday morning.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on people who work in the field of philosophy and social sciences to promote the evolution and growth of fine traditional Chinese culture in new and creative ways.

Shanghai customs recently intercepted 247 reagents of human cells hidden in a shipment of "laboratory growth medium" during inspection.

Swiss journalist Walter Bosshard was the first European journalist to visit Yan'an and meet Mao Zedong in person. He shot a black and white silent documentary Journey to Yan'an with a 16mm film camera.

The Philippines speaks highly of the COVID-19 vaccines made by China and hopes to purchase more, and is not returning them, as some media reports recently claimed, said the Chinese Ambassador to the country.

A unit affiliated with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Xinjiang Military Command deployed in a high-altitude plateau recently replaced its outdated rocket launchers with digital, long-range heavy rocket artillery, greatly enhancing its all-weather combat capability in the border region.

A pilot travel bubble for residents in the island of Taiwan going to Fujian Province, in the Chinese mainland, was postponed on Saturday due to rising cases of COVID-19 in the island, according to the Fujian leading group for epidemic ...

The US embassy in Beijing apologized in response to a post comparing Chinese students visiting the US with dogs, a Hong Kong-based media reported on Thursday. However, Chinese netizens refused to accept the apology for being insincere and unofficial, saying ...

The Australian newspaper recently quoted a Chinese book that is openly on sale as a "leaked" exclusive document, in an embarrassing article that smears China over the origins of COVID-19, twisting the book's contents to support its own conspiracy theory ...

The first batch of donated anti-epidemic supplies from the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) reached India on Sunday, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said, as India was in urgent need of the materials to cope with the surge ...

As Russia held a military parade to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Soviet Union's Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War on Moscow's Red Square on Sunday, about 400 people took part in the “Immortal Regiment” ...

When some Indian and European officials hailed the resumption of trade talks and agreement on enhanced partnership to seek replacement of China amid growing opposition toward the China-Europe investment deal, some Chinese observers consider that sidelining China through an EU-India ...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg found herself in hot water on Chinese social media as she was mocked by netizens as being a "double-standard, selective environmentalist" and "puppet of Western politicians" after she targeted China on its annual emissions but ...

The Hangzhou Safari Park is under fire for concealing the escape of three leopards which many said had posed great danger to local residents and throngs of tourists during the just concluded May Day holidays.

The slogan 'Sino-Russian friendship passes down from generation to generation' rang out in the square of Beijing Exhibition Centre on Sunday.

A case involving the theft of 3 million yuan ($464,000) worth of Bitcoin in East China's Jiangxi Province exposes the lack of supervision over digital asset management companies in China, experts said.

A Chinese research team has successfully designed a 62-qubit programmable superconducting quantum processor, naming it "Zu Chongzhi" after the noted 5th century Chinese mathematician and astronomer. The computer contains the largest number of superconducting qubits so far in the world, ...

China's space authority announced on Sunday that remnants from China's Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket reentered the Earth's atmosphere, most of it burning up on entry, with some remnants falling in the Arabian Sea.

China to make public results of the 7th national population census on Tuesday

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on Saturday that behaviors causing fans to take irrational acts to support idols will be strictly cracked down upon, after a milk-wasting scandal involving a hit variety show Youth With You Season 3 ...

Israel Epstein helped Xinhua News Agency send its first English dispatch to the world from a cave in Yan'an in 1944. From then on, the world could hear the voice of the CPC.

More than 308.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across China as of Friday, the National Health Commission said Saturday.

The Hangzhou Safari Park on Saturday apologized for failing to announce the escape of three juvenile leopards in time. Two of the leopards have been captured as of 5 pm Saturday.

The WHO's emergency approval of China's COVID-19 vaccine will boost global vaccine supply amid shortfall as China's overall yearly production capacity is approaching five billion doses, observers said.

Beyond a waste of milk scandal that hit variety show Youth With You Season 3 was involved in, for which video platform iQIYI and the sponsor dairy brand apologized, the fermenting incident also exposed the nasty side of idol-building industry ...

WHO gave Emergency Use Listing to Sinopharm Beijing's COVID-19 vaccine, making it the sixth vaccine to receive WHO validation for safety, efficacy and quality.

Chinese President Xi Jinping talked over the phone with IOC President Thomas Bach on Friday. Xi said China is confident about hosting the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing as scheduled.

The probability of China's Long March-5B Y2 rocket causing harm is "extremely low," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Friday amid continuous Western hype of the dangerous "out of control" re-entry.

Diplomats with the US Consulate General in Shanghai told a media round table on Friday that although the Diplopets video practice drew backlash on Chinese social media platforms, the sole purpose was to convey the excitement of the resumption and ...

The recent hearing held by a US House of Representatives panel on “atrocities against Uyghurs” was no more than a “clumsy anti-China farce” without any justice or objectivity, condemned Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Friday.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host a virtual session of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on Friday with the attendance of US counterpart Antony Blinken and other foreign ministers, the second meeting between the two ...

“The last time when these guys colluded to [suppress] China was still in 1900; 120 years have passed, they are still dreaming,” patriotic Chinese cartoonist Wuheqilin posted on social media, alongside his new satire illustration on Friday, comparing the meddling ...

China's dairy conglomerate Mengniu apologized on Friday for the negative impacts of a marketing campaign run in partnership with the IQIYI show Youth with You Season 3, that resulted in viewers dumping large amounts of milk products into sewers amid ...

A valley in warm and mild Yunnan in Southwest China is expected to welcome more than 150 million butterflies in May and June in the largest "butterfly explosion" in 10 years, local ecology observers told media, attributing the phenomenon to ...

Speaking of Xinjiang, we Chinese often say "Xinjiang is a wonderful land".

A teacher in Pingdingshan, Central China's Henan Province, forced a 9-year-old boy to stand on a platform, dragging his hair, which caused his scalp to separate from the skull, because he was chattering in class. The incident has triggered widespread ...

Beijing is braving a sandstorm that caused high air pollution levels on Thursday afternoon with level nine wind gusts in some areas, a rare phenomenon for this time of the year.

Following the 'China threat' hype in the G7 meeting, US Secretary of State Blinken will meet Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday at a virtual United Nations Security Council summit, as China assumes the Security Council ...

Xi holds phone conversation with UN chief

After the Biden administration announced support on Wednesday for waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, a sharp reversal from sitting on stockpiles indifferent to other countries' demands, Chinese experts pointed out the attitude change was more a case of ...

Wild giant pandas have prospered in a national park in Southwest China's Sichuan Province and their population has increased to 149 from 104 in 2015, based on DNA analysis of the pandas that have been spotted.

The "double mutant" variant that is wrecking havoc in India is feared to be spilling into neighboring countries and is starting to affect Southeast Asia. Experts warned that without strict border controls and anti-virus measures, countries in South and Southeast ...

As the World Health Organization (WHO) is scheduled to announce the results of its evaluation of vaccines from Chinese producers Sinopharm and Sinovac Biotech for emergency authorization this week, the latest document uploaded by the WHO on the assessment of ...

Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua read a congratulatory letter from President Xi Jinping to the first China International Consumer Products Expo that kicks off in Haikou, South China's Hainan Province late Thursday.