Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a ceremony to commemorate national heroes on Friday, China's Martyrs' Day, as the nation paid tribute to those who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of the Chinese people and the nation's development.

Chinese leaders on Thursday exchanged congratulatory messages with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida over the 50th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations, with analysts saying China and Japan show great sincerity to each other for keep developing the ...

With Chinese people preparing to embrace the National Day and enjoy the Golden Week holiday that runs from October 1 to 7, local governments are taking more measures to boost the holiday economy while at the same time fighting against ...

In the latest round of increasingly frequent attempts by US politicians to "score points" by provoking China over the Taiwan question ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans introduced their own version of the highly provocative "Taiwan Policy Act 2022," which ...

Ahead of China's ninth Martyrs' Day which falls on Friday, a day reminding the Chinese people to always remember the contributions made by the martyrs before they celebrate the National Day on October 1, the public have sent condolences and ...

Leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines carrying gas from Russia, reportedly the result of sabotage, have been used to fuel conspiracy theories and a new round of the West's information war against Russia, with observers predicting that the Kremlin will ...

'It was like a man standing upright when he was suddenly pushed to the left by an external force, and then to the right,' Wang Xin, a senior engineer with the Xi'an Satellite Control Center described, as he recalled the ...

China is willing to carry out international cooperation on food loss reduction to safeguard global food security, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a press conference on Thursday, while urging developed countries to fulfill their obligation to reduce ...

China will never sit idly by and watch national interests suffer as safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests is the sacred mission of China's diplomacy, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said at Thursday's press conference themed around what ...

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China's natural resources and national security departments have carried out joint law enforcement operations against relevant enterprises and organizations that use "problematic maps" overseas, China Central Television reported on Wednesday.

In the past four and a half years, a total of 377 cross-Taiwan Straits families have been reunited through a public welfare project, said a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. It shows that compatriots on ...

China and Japan, two neighbors which have developed intertwined and complex diplomatic relations, are welcoming the 50th anniversary of the normalization of ties, which falls on Thursday, yet the low key celebrations, mostly held among non-governmental sectors, are an epitome ...

As countries rushed to speculate causes behind unusual leaks of the Nord Stream pipelines from Russia to Europe, with some blaming Russia while others alluding to the involvement of the US and its allies, Chinese observers warned of the ripple ...

A collection of well-preserved fish fossils were unearthed in two newly discovered fossil beds from the early Silurian Period - around 439 to 436 million years ago - in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality and Guizhou Province.

The majority of people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson Region and Zaporozhye Region have "voted to join Russia in referendums" that were held between September 23 and 27, with observers believing the conflict is certain to intensify and the West will ...

The issue of a nuclear submarine deal between the US, UK, and Australia, and inherent risks will officially be reviewed upon China's proposal for the first time at the 66th annual International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference to be ...

In an exclusive interview with Global Times reporter Zhang Weilan (GT), Lao Ambassador to China Khamphao Ernthavanh (Ernthavanh) shared her expectations of the 20th CPC National Congress, her insights on the 61-year-long ties between China and Laos, as well as ...

Chinese students may choose to study in European and Asian countries instead of the US or Australia in the future due to geopolitical factors, said a report released by a Chinese think tank on Wednesday, which also noted that the ...

China's large vaccine producer Sinopharm and US pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) signed a cooperation framework agreement on Wednesday, under which Sinopharm would be a dealer and exclusive commission agent of MSD's antiviral COVID-19 medicine in China.

The first US-Pacific Islands Country Summit got off to a "rocky start" amid widespread skepticism from Pacific island nations after the Solomon Islands rejected a draft US agreement and the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau raised serious concerns about "insufficient" ...

In a step further underpinning the security alliance between NATO and South Korea, NATO has announced it has accepted Seoul's request to designate its embassy in Belgium as its diplomatic mission to NATO, a move that experts said would undoubtedly ...

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities on the island of Taiwan have been channeling large amounts of money to US congressmen who support “Taiwan independence,” by either directly funding them or indirectly through the congressmen's affiliated businesses or Taiwan groups ...

The US is not even qualified to talk about rules and order, as it does not abide by the commitments it has made, said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Wednesday, commenting on the previous statements that US vice president ...

The repeated unscrupulous visits by US politicians and lawmakers to the island of Taiwan have increased vigilance among many people on the island who have taken note of the separatist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)'s "dollar diplomacy" and its destructive impacts.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed concerted efforts to forge ahead determinedly toward a new victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

“The door for Xinjiang is open. Welcome to visit Xinjiang to feel its beauty,” Chen Xu, China's permanent representative to the UN Office in Geneva, said at the ceremony for the photo exhibition that was held in Geneva to introduce the real Xinjiang region.

China has always stood on the side of peace with a commitment to promote peace and dialogue and will continue to play a constructive role.

The normal military cooperation between China and Russia is aimed at jointly maintaining regional peace and stability, while the hype about the "China threat" theory is nothing more than speculation, Chinese military experts noted after the US media reported the ...

More countries have expressed opposition to US and Western countries' politicization of human rights issues as the latter's fierce hyping of topics on China's Xinjiang region during the ongoing 51st session of the United Nation Human Rights Council and the ...

Referenda on "joining Russia" in four Ukrainian regions - Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson - are scheduled to conclude on Tuesday, as Chinese analysts said this may make Russia consolidate what it has gained from the conflict since February, bringing ...

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has paid his second trip to China's Taiwan region, turning the island into a "cash machine" while trying to accumulate "political capital" by blatantly trumpeting the island as "an independent country," although experts ...

The state funeral for the assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was held in Tokyo on Tuesday against a backdrop of strong internal controversy from the public and opposition parties over the cost and legitimacy of such a ceremony, ...

The upper jaw of the infant of Yuanmoupithecus xiaoyuan Photo: Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met with leaders of 10 European countries and with EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, fully demonstrating the importance China attaches to the development of China-Europe relations, ...

A poll showed 90 percent of people have no worries about going out during night, China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Wednesday, highlighting positive results was achieved by the 100-day campaign which was launched in the wake of ...

Chinese scientists have further revealed the subsurface structure and stratification of Mars in the Utopia Planitia region where Zhurong - the rover of the country's Tianwen-1 Mars mission - landed, suggesting there was no evidence of the existence of liquid ...

The 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China 2022, will kick off on November 8 in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, with various active service aircraft of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force, represented by the ...

Su Yige buried her broken phone case into the earth to observe if it could really be organically decomposed as advertised. The phone case, like many others things she owns and uses in her life, is what she hopes to ...

Yooupi opens a dumpster, not knowing what to expect. She lets out a jubilant cry as she finds her "treasure of the day." In a big trash bag, she finds packs of bread that one might argue aren't in the ...

Rice yield of high quality rice in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reached 700 kilograms per mu (666 square meters) at Yuan Longping Workstation in Hinggan League, and achieved the late academician's goal of rice production with high yield ...

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The following is the full text of the foreword written by Xi Jinping, titled "Forging Ahead on the Journey to National Rejuvenation," to the Revitalization Library:

Chinese President Xi Jinping has written a foreword, titled "Forging Ahead on the Journey to National Rejuvenation," for works of literature collected in the Revitalization Library, which will soon be published.

China's domestically developed firefighter aircraft AG600M, code name Kunlong, made a successful test on Tuesday, in which the aircraft drew and dropped 12 tons of water. Purchasing contracts of six of the aircraft have been signed, the Global Times learned ...

With ulterior motives, some Western countries turn a blind eye to the tremendous human rights achievement in China's Xinjiang region and try to politicize and instrumentalize human rights issues to destabilize the region and split China, a senior official from ...

The UNGA held a high-level meeting on Monday to mark the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

The cyberattack launched by the US National Security Agency (NSA) against Northwestern Polytechnical University in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province - well-known for its aviation, aerospace and navigation studies - was aimed at infiltrating and controlling core equipment in China's infrastructure ...

As the drought in the Yangtze River basin continues, Central China's Hunan Province has become one of the most-affected areas. According to official statistics, as of Sunday, all 122 cities and counties in the province have reached the medium drought ...

The Shanghai Virus Research Institution was officially established in Shanghai on Monday, with internationally renowned virologist Guan Yi appointed as the first chief of the institute. The new institute is intended to deepen the cooperation and sharing mechanism in the ...

A recent report by China Central Television (CCTV) in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the commissioning of China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, revealed a scene in which aircraft carrier Liaoning-based J-15 fighter jets flew over what seems to ...

The General Seyni Kountché Bridge, the Niger Third Bridge project , the Kandadji hydroelectric dam project…As multiple projects contributing to Niger's economic development have been under way, China-Niger practical cooperation has yielded fruitful outcomes and served as bridges of friendship ...

The leader of Italian political party Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni looks set to become the country's first woman prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World War II, according to many mainstream Western media outlets, ...

Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Xi'an have advised residents to stay put as the upcoming National Day holidays approach, as a way to reduce the risk of spreading the epidemic amid flare-ups across the country. Experts have noted ...

After all delegates to attend the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) were selected, officials introduced in detail the characteristics of the delegation, with 33.6 percent of Party members working at the frontlines of work ...

Before attending the state funeral for assassinated former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe, US Vice President Kamala Harris had a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday to reaffirm the US-Japan alliance. However, analysts said that Harris' visit to ...

Yangtze finless porpoises, an iconic species in the country's longest river Yangtze, were observed in many sections of the river in East China's Jiangsu Province during the ongoing fourth comprehensive survey of the river.

China is expected to unveil its next-generation, solar-powered large unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with very long endurance soon, which will have a larger wingspan than its predecessors that allows it to carry larger payloads for missions including reconnaissance, monitoring and ...

The major diplomatic convention – the high-level meetings of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) – is scheduled to conclude on Monday in New York with about 150 world leaders spending days discussing the most urgent issues ...

Chinese space watchers wished on Monday the best luck for NASA's upcoming ambitious Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) asteroid crash mission, saying that if successful, it would mark a first victory in human's planetary defense endeavor which carries great significance ...

As September 29 marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations, people from various walks of life in China have held commemorative activities to review the progress and achievements of China-Japan exchanges over the last decades and ...

Editor's Note: Upon the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties between China and Japan, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou (Kong) said that the last 50 years, although only a short fragment of the 2,000-year-long history of the ...

After being suspended on April 29 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, China-North Korea trans-border freight train services have been resumed following friendly consultations, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

China is fulfilling its domestic legal procedures to ramp up ratifying the Firearms Protocol, a key step in implementing the global security initiative and maintaining international peace and stability amid the global threat of gun proliferation, said Chinese Foreign Ministry ...

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on Monday said that China appreciates Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's speech during the 77th session of UN General Assembly which strongly fought back against the smears and accusations regarding the relations between the two ...

Record number of Chinese students and job-seekers are expected to flock to China's 2023 national entrance exams for postgraduate studies in face of heightened competition for jobs, exceeding 5 million most likely.

China's National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a yellow warning for typhoon on Monday morning as Typhoon Noru, previously classed as a super typhoon, entered the central and eastern parts of the South China Sea on Monday morning and is expected ...

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Despite the world being in a phase of "turbulence and transformation," we have reasons for hope amid broadening cooperation and deepening economic globalization, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at the general debate of the 77th session ...

Russia harshly slammed the US for its notorious Monroe Doctrine and the attempt to turn the entire world into its own backyard, after Washington and some Western countries mounted severe attacks against Russia at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). ...

The Chinese mission to the UN in Vienna warned in an exclusive statement sent to the Global Times on Sunday that the latest move by AUKUS to plan to expedite Australia's nuclear submarine construction is a blatant defiance of and ...

As debate rages once again over whether primary and secondary schools in China should further reduce the weight of English language teaching, China's Ministry of Education (MOE) said foreign languages learning plays an important role in cultivating students' international vision ...

With the US' so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy getting more aggressive, countries in Asia including China and North Korea appear on high alert ahead of US Vice President Kamala Harris' first official visit to Japan and South Korea in the wake of ...

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will become home to the world's most powerful steerable 110-meter radio telescope by 2028, as construction kicked off near Qitai county, some 200 kilometers to region's capital Urumqi on September 21, the Global Times ...

China's first metaverse major was set up at a university in East China's Jiangsu Province in the hope of training more talents in line with the needs of enterprises in metaverse-related sectors.

A number of COVID-19 cases have been detected through on-site nucleic acid testing when travelers arrive at airports, train stations and highway exits, a method recently adopted across China to address the escalated risk brought about by increasing population flow ...

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 ...

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who was sanctioned by China when he left office at the end of the Trump presidency, reportedly plans to make a second visit to the island of Taiwan. The Global Times has found ...

Since the convening of the 18th National Congress of the CPC a decade ago, China, under the leadership of the CPC, has promoted the concept of equality as a principle of its diplomatic approach.

China's scientific research ship Explorer 2 and the 4,500-meter manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi (Deep-sea Warrior) returned to Sanya, South China's Hainan Province on Sunday, after they smoothly completed the in-situ observation of deep-sea geology and sea trial tasks of domestic ...

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China's third aircraft carrier has started mooring trials, the country's state broadcaster announced on Friday. This indicates smooth progress for the carrier's construction and tests since its launch in June, analysts said.

When Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, he delivered China's solemn position on the recent wrong behaviors of ...

When Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor in New York at the meeting of BRICS foreign ministers during ...

The 10th China-Japan-South Korea Friendship Children's Painting Exhibition kicked off on Saturday in Shanghai, with 300 paintings done by children of the three countries to be exhibited at the China Welfare Institute Children's Palace for one month, witnessing a strengthened ...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned that the Taiwan question has become the biggest point of risk in China-US relations, as he prepared for a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York, which ...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Thursday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, in a meeting which Wong described as "constructive."

The referenda of four Ukrainian regions on joining Russia started on Friday amid the US and Europe's strong opposition and pledges of more sanctions against Russia, while Chinese observers said the Russia-Ukraine conflict will enter a new phase, as Russia ...

East China's Jiangxi Province issued a red alert for water supply for the first time after Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, saw its water level fall to the lowest since records began, the provincial government said on Friday.

One day before the referendums held by four regions in Ukraine on whether to join Russia started, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba conveyed clearly China's position on the ...

China has made amazing efforts in economic reform, infrastructure construction, and opening up trade among many other sectors and seen great achievements, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to China Abdulrahman Ahmad Al-Harbi told the Global Times on the occasion of the ...

So far a total of 30 Chinese citizens are missing after a boat sank off southwestern Cambodia's sea on Thursday evening. The boat was carrying 41 Chinese citizens, and only 18 have been rescued, the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia confirmed ...

Sun Lijun, former Chinese vice minister of public security, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking more than 646 million yuan of bribes, manipulating the stock market, and illegally possessing firearms, according to the Intermediate People's Court ...

Jiang Duan, minister of the Chinese mission to the UN in Geneva, harshly condemned the US' illegal military interference in Syria and urged it to stop violating the Syrian people's basic human rights, at the 51st session of the UN ...

An online meeting to introduce the human rights situation in Northwest China's Xinjiang region was held on the sidelines of the 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday with representatives including senior officials and scholars sharing ...

Chen Jizhi, the prime culprit involved in the harassment and brutal beating of four women at a restaurant in Tangshan in North China's Hebei Province, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison and fined 320,000 yuan ($45,215), the Guangyang ...

As the world has entered a turbulent period, China believes that the EU will stick to its strategic independence and work together with China to ensure the steady and long-term development of China-EU relations, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister ...

Chinese and US astronomers have recently filmed for the first time the magnetic field changes in the surrounding environment just one astronomical unit away from the center of the fast radio burst (FRB) located outside the Milky Way using the ...