North China's Hebei extends lockdown measures through Jan 19 after 39 new cases on Sat

The Hong Kong Police Force (HKFP) and a national legislator from the special administrative region on Saturday showed stunning defiance over the latest sanctions imposed by the outgoing Donald Trump administration, vowing to continue to firmly protect national security, which ...

A Shanghai political advisor plans to propose a cooling-off period for future spouses before they register for marriage, aiming to offer couples enough time to learn more about each other.

Brazil's health regulator Anvisa on Thursday urged AstraZeneca and Sinovac-Butantan to submit further documentation required for their COVID-19 vaccines' getting emergency use approval on Sunday.

A Japanese medical expert has said that Japan should consider importing Chinese vaccines instead of only Western-made COVID-19 vaccines, as there have been safety concerns over the mRNA-based Pfizer vaccine recently following the deaths of 23 elderly Norwegian people who ...

While the World Health Organization's expert team is in Wuhan to investigate how the coronavirus jumped to humans from animals, China's "Bat Woman" Shi Zhengli said in an article that mink could be a possible host of the origin of ...

Two experts from the World Health Organization (WHO)'s expert team on a mission to investigate the novel coronavirus' origin - one British and one from Qatar - tested positive for IgM antibodies during transit tests at Singapore airport before heading ...

About half of Beijing's universities will finish classes for the semester and go on winter vacation in an orderly manner by the end of Friday. Many students studying in Beijing are preparing to face strict anti-epidemic measures in their hometowns, ...

Chinese virologist from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) Shi Zhengli was honored as an "advanced worker of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)," the WIV announced on Friday through a post on their WeChat account.

"The arrest of Dr. Gang Chen on January 13, 2021, by the Boston FBI is nothing but thinly veiled racism," Rao Yi, a Chinese neurobiologist, said in opposition to the arrest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Chen ...

Chinese health experts called on Norway and other countries to suspend the use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer, especially among elderly people, due to the vaccines' safety uncertainties following the deaths of 23 elderly Norwegian ...

Brunei's Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah met with visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi here Thursday, and both sides pledged to carry on joint fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and promote bilateral cooperation in all areas to new ...

NE China's Heilongjiang reports 43 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 31 asymptomatic infections

China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) concluded Thursday that there were serious adverse reactions to phenolphthalein tablets and lozenges after a post-marketing evaluation, and decided to stop the production, sale and use of these products in China, and the drug ...

At the very last moment of the Trump administration, officials like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and some diplomats in his Department of State have found that they were unwelcome abroad, whether in Taiwan or Europe, so they have lost ...

Indonesian Ambassador to China Djauhari Oratmangun cast hopes on Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines on controlling the pandemic in Indonesia in an exclusive interview with the Global Times on Thursday, and applauded Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's pledge for ...

In response to reports that China is focusing more on domestic development and less on Africa, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Thursday that this did not conform to the actual situation.

The sharp contrast in the lives of Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei's two daughters sparked heated online debate on Chinese social media on Thursday when the youngest announced her foray in the entertainment sector, while the elder sibling remains under house ...

Amid latest coronavirus resurgence in multiple places in China, many newlyweds are canceling banquets to protect relatives, friends and themselves.

A South Korean "old China hand" scholar said on a variety show that China's May Fourth Movement was inspired by the March First Movement in Korea, causing a storm of anger among Chinese netizens.

China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its companies' interests after the US announced a ban on imports of cotton and tomato products from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, citing "forced labor" concerns.

An invitation to a panel discussion on women's role in COVID-19 control by the US Consulate General Guangzhou has sparked wide criticism and ridicule from Chinese netizens who stormed the commentary section of the consulate general's social media account, questioning ...

According to virus gene sequencing, the two COVID-19 cases amid the fresh outbreak in Wangkui county of Suihua city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province had 12 genomic variants, which were highly homologous to the cases in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province ...

More countries announced they would purchase China's COVID-19 vaccines or start mass inoculations using them, as senior officials of various countries stressed the safety of the Chinese vaccines despite some Western media questioning their efficacy and safety.

Ningbo, a port city in East China's Zhejiang Province, recently launched the country's first-ever public health emergency insurance amid the recent regional resurgence of COVID-19.

Loudspeakers in villages started blasting, long alert banners were hung on walls, excavators and metal gates were set up to examine vehicles and visitors…Chinese villages are fighting the novel coronavirus in its own way as virus resurgence occurs in multiple ...

North China's Hebei Province reported a death from COVID-19 on Thursday, becoming the country's first coronavirus fatality in about eight months. The case might not be a direct indication that the virus has become more pathogenic but sounds an alarm ...

Western hypocrisy and double standards, which usually point the finger at China's information security and the application of AI technology, have been thoroughly exposed, with the US dealing with Capitol Hill rioters.

Just days ahead of a power transfer in the US, several positive signs - from solid progress for the phase one trade agreement, encouraging words from China's top leader, to news of potential engagement between Chinese officials and the new ...

Three samples of ice cream made from New Zealand-sourced milk powder and Ukrainian dried whey tested positive for COVID-19 in North China's Tianjin, authorities announced Thursday. The company has been cordoned off and tracking of the sold products is ongoing.

Twenty years ago, many young people in China who were first exposed to Western culture thought rebelling against traditional Chinese culture and mimicking foreign culture was fashionable and trendy. But this view is outdated for Generation Z today – a ...

China's space station construction has witnessed new progress recently, after the Tianhe core cabinet, Tianzhou-2 cargo spaceship, and space application system products for core cabinet missions passed authorities' reviews before moving out of the manufacturing factory.

The accusation of "forced labor" against Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the "lie of the century" made by the US and some Western countries, while the US itself is the country that has problems of forced labor, with ...

An explosion has rocked a workshop of an auto part company in the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. One died and seven injured in the blast in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. The cause of the incident is under investigation: ...

The first group of 12 confirmed COVID-19 cases from the Hebei outbreak have recovered and been discharged from hospital on Thursday. Another 18 asymptomatic cases were also recovering after being taken off medical observation.

Some temples in Beijing, Shanghai and East China's Hangzhou have cancelled the on-site free porridge to celebrate the Laba festival following the recent COVID-19 outbreak in China, as Chinese people have the tradition to eat Laba congee for the Laba ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged US coffee chain Starbucks to play a positive role in China-US trade ties, while saying that China would further open up to US and other foreign businesses, in reply to a letter from Howard ...

WHO experts arrived in Wuhan on Thursday to cooperate with Chinese counterparts in the research on the origin of the coronavirus.

Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei Province, the epicenter of the most recent COVID-19 outbreak, began building 3,000 makeshift housing units to be used as quarantine venues for COVID-19 patients on Wednesday amid surging infections.

China on Thursday reported its first local COVID-19 fatality in about eight months since May 17, a female patient from North China's Hebei Province who had an underlying disease and had been extremely ill before she died on Wednesday afternoon. ...

As the Spring Festival travel season approaches, Chinese authorities vowed in a notice on Tuesday to promote the recognition of one health QR code throughout the country, in order to improve the use of health QR codes.

China's State Council, the cabinet, promoted Yu Jianhua, who has been serving as a vice minister of commerce, to become China's international trade representative, a key position for trade negotiations with other countries, the Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday.

Conspiracy theories and smears have arisen ahead of a visit by WHO experts to Wuhan to investigate the origin of COVID-19. A new, but also “old” smear came from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as well as the country's media ...

China will commission its first maritime patrol ship with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons in mid-2021, and the vessel is expected to be used in the South China Sea for missions including patrol and emergency support, an official ...

Northeast China's Jilin Province reported seven new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, among whom three traveled on a train that runs from a city in Heilongjiang Province to Beijing on January 5. An urgent search and testing of all passengers ...

China's tech prowess, which has proven effective in containing the coronavirus during China's anti-epidemic fight, has been put to use again in the latest outbreak in North China's Hebei Province over the past weeks, and in a more efficient ...

Ding Zhen, China's biggest social media influencer of 2020, is facing an image crisis after video footage showing him taking a puff of an e-cigarette went viral online in the past few days.

Questions raised by Peter Doshi, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, have triggered heated discussion on Chinese social media.

People who are responsible for the 30-hour delay in reporting an East China goldmine explosion, which led to 22 people being trapped, have been detained and will be dealt with seriously, local authorities said Wednesday.

The world is going to witness more historic moments in the US, as Donald Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached twice after the Capitol riot, and he made history in just one term, though it's almost impossible ...

Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reported 40 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 50 asymptomatic infections as of 7 pm Wednesday and the locked-down Wangkui county in the city of Suihua was adjusted as a medium-risk area, with a township being adjusted ...

Bringing China's delivery sector back into the spotlight, local government bodies in Hailing district of Taizhou city, East China's Jiangsu Province, started an investigation into an Alibaba delivery driver who set himself on fire on Monday allegedly in protest over ...

In order to support the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in North China's Liaoning and Hebei provinces, the National Health Commission has mobilized 30,000 milliliters of blood plasma for the treatment of critically ill patients, health officials said at a ...

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, ...

China's CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac has been proven safe and effective after phase III trials conducted in several countries, boosting public confidence over its global rollout as Indonesian President Joko Widodo received his first shot of the CoronaVac ...

Listing Chinese media as "foreign missions," slandering Confucius Institutes as "threats to national security." In the final days of Trump administration, US State Department under Mike Pompeo has increased China-smearing. Check out the infographic to learn about the facts:

Beijing is scheduled to conduct its annual inspection on the enrollment and cultivation of international students by schools for the first time since the capital released revised management measures in July last year.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday urged Canada and UK to immediately revoke their measures on imports from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, saying such untenable measures were made based on lies and false information and were only a ...

China's WJ-700, a high-altitude, long-endurance and high-speed armed reconnaissance drone said to be able to create a new pattern for drone combat, successfully conducted a maiden flight test recently, as military experts said the unmanned aircraft is characterized by its ...

Shanghai on Wednesday announced eight COVID-19 prevention measures targeting all those who plan to enter the city, effective immediately, and they will continue until March 31, to curb the possible spread of the coronavirus with the Spring Festival, the most ...

Beijing reported zero new infections on Wednesday, but health officials warned that it does not indicate zero risk given recent family clustered outbreaks, infections surrounding the capital city that involved a person who works in Beijing but lives in Hebei, ...

Despite the small dip in global carbon emissions due to restrictions on travel and other activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, global ocean temperatures continued breaking records in 2020, with a recent study reporting the highest ocean temperatures since 1955 ...

To probe the origin of the COVID-19 virus is a scientific task, and World Health Organization experts' team needs to make similar trips to other countries, in addition to China's Wuhan, Chinese officials said Wednesday, a day before the WHO ...

More than 10 million people in China are vaccinated: National Health Commission

Chinese people above 60 will be included in vaccination program as more clinical trial data is gathered and supply increases

Inactivated COVID-19 vaccines made by Sinovac are effective and safe, said Yin Weidong, CEO of Chinese vaccine producer Sinovac Biotech, at a press conference of the State Council on Wednesday.

Asymptomatic infections, sporadic cases and outbreaks in a few places will not cause another major COVID-19 epidemic in China, an official from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) told the public at a press conference Wednesday. ...

The outbreak in North China's Hebei Province saw a new daily high of infections on Wednesday, with 90 confirmed and 15 asymptomatic COVID-19 patients discovered, since the first case on January 2. Experts say this round of high infection numbers, ...

At least two people have been punished for deliberately concealing the travel history of COVID-19 confirmed cases or asymptomatic patients during the recent outbreaks in different cities in China.

The cancellation of all US State Department travel, which was not unexpected, was due to the Trump administration being unwelcome both domestically and internationally, as American political parties and the international community, including Europe, have fully realized its extreme destructive ...

Northeast China's Heilongjiang has entered a state of emergency after a fresh outbreak from Wangkui county spread to two regions in the province on Wednesday.

Looking like a real-life Michelin Man, a five-month-old girl became known as a "big head baby" after her parents applied a best-selling anti-bacterial cream to treat skin eczema, which has triggered widespread concern in China.

A “co-sharing matchmaking service” consisting of Shanghai's 28 matchmaking agencies was set up in the city on Monday, aiming to buck the declining marriage trend.

China recently revealed another type of military-use exoskeleton suit that is powered and that can be used for carrying ammunition, after a previous type of non-powered exoskeleton suit entered service with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) border defense troops in ...

The UK is reportedly set to tighten laws on imports related to China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for so-called forced labor accusations, an impetuous move that has been made based on untenable “evidence” which will worsen the frosty China-UK ties, ...

The annual travel during the Spring Festival holidays, called Chunyun in Chinese, will see a lower scale of population flow than normal level this year, 11 national ministries said in a joint notice on Tuesday.

A cultural spat between Chinese and South Korean netizens roared again after Chinese food vlogger Li Ziqi released a video on YouTube of herself making Kimchi.

Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing severe and moderate infections, 77.96 percent effective in preventing mild cases, and has an overall efficacy of 50.4 percent in Brazil's final-stage trials.

Establishment and pro-establishment forces in the US are getting united to fight their “common enemy” – President Donald Trump and his supporters with unprecedented efforts, especially “executing Trump digitally” among social media networks, which brought concerns worldwide on the US ...

A judge of the Higher People's Court in Central China's Hunan Province was allegedly murdered for refusing to pull strings for an acquaintance, and the country's Supreme Court issued a strongly worded statement on Tuesday condemning violence against the judiciary. ...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday started his visit to Indonesia as part of his four-nation tour of Southeast Asia, which comes after Indonesia announced on Monday an emergency approval of a Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccine in ...

As people across China prepare for Spring Festival, the biggest annual holiday in the Chinese lunar calendar, clusters of new COVID-19 outbreaks in several areas have raised concerns over a resurgence of the virus, and a swift response from many ...

About 22 million people in three cities of Hebei Province neighboring the capital Beijing have been placed under COVID-19 lockdown as of Tuesday, twice the size of the population that was put under lockdown during the Wuhan epidemic, as Hebei ...

Why has the West misunderstood and showed bias toward China's political system and economic development?

The US wrongly accuses China of seeking military aggression in the Indo-Pacific region in a recent report by the US state department. The fact is that China acts with restraint and works with neighboring countries to settle disputes via diplomatic ...

Accounting for one-third of the world's total consumption of distilled spirits, China's famous distilled spirit will officially be called “Chinese Baijiu” in English; it has been mentioned as such in Chinese official documents since January 1.

The lack of action by a mine owner in Yantai, East China's Shandong Province has enraged Chinese netizens after local authority revealed that the company delayed reporting an explosion for 30 hours that has trapped 22 miners. The accident occurred ...

In a rare move, the US Department of State has released the public schedule of a private meeting between US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Clarke Cooper and Taiwan's representative to the US Hsiao Bi-khim on Monday (local ...

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently started deploying China's first panoramic, high-precision spatial datum that covers the uncharted western border region of the country, with leading analysts saying that the system will contribute to the infrastructure construction as well as ...

A full-scale prototype of a new-energy aircraft, the ET480, developed by the research center under the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), rolled off the production line recently, according to the Securities Times on Tuesday.