In a workshop in Ongwediva, northern Namibia, fabric rustles as Wilhemina Amadhila measures, cuts and stitches material. "Each stitch comes together to form a stunning outfit," said the 22-year-old trainee at the state-run Valombola Vocational Training Centre.

Chinese President Xi Jinping left Cairo on Wednesday after paying a state visit to Egypt.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday raised a four-point proposal on building a new security architecture in the Middle East via upholding a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Xi, Sisi hold in-depth exchanges on Mideast situation

The Japanese authorities should earnestly abide by the international obligations affirmed in Japanese Instrument of Surrender, face up to history, draw lessons from the past, make a clean break with militarism, and take concrete actions to win the trust of Asian neighbors and the international community, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told the Global Times on Wednesday in response to a question about China's position over some views on Japan's refusal to recognize “Enemy State Clauses,” an important provision of the UN Charter.

Asked about foreign nationals reported missing on the Chinese side following the mudslide in Nepal and the situation of Chinese citizens in Nepal, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Wednesday that the ministry also briefed the embassies of relevant countries in China on Tuesday and as of now, 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries have been identified as missing in the disaster.

Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said on Wednesday that according to assessments by experts from both China and Nepal, the disaster was caused by glacier instability resulting from the long-term effects of climate warming. An ice-rock avalanche occurred at a glacier in Nepal, rapidly plunging downhill and scouring the mountainside, which triggered the disaster, Guo said, responding to a question how does China view the crisis of glacier retreat affecting the Himalayan region, given the recent glacier collapse near the China-Nepal border in Xizang, and how China will respond to a proposal that it should establish a “Himalaya council” with neighboring countries.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

“The second batch of emergency relief supplies from China arrived in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Tuesday afternoon, along with five DNA identification experts to assist the Nepalese side, which expressed appreciation for China's additional emergency assistance and technical support,” Chinese FM spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a press conference on Wednesday, adding that, in response to Nepal's needs, China is preparing a third batch of emergency relief supplies, including Bailey bridges, mortuary cabinets, epidemic prevention supplies and emergency communications equipment, and will also dispatch a second team of DNA identification experts.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sent a congratulatory message to Haakon VIII on his accession to the throne as King of Norway.

The Chinese government has never required, and will never require, Chinese companies to collect or provide data, information or intelligence located in foreign countries for the Chinese government in ways that violate local laws, Liu Chang, spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the US, told the Global Times in a written response on Wednesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China sees the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a priority area for high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road and implementation of the Global Development Initiative, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday arrived in Cairo for a state visit to Egypt.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday arrived in Cairo for a state visit to Egypt.

Japanese outlet Sankei Shimbun, citing sources, reported that an underground shelter capable of protecting against nuclear attacks is established at the Taipei office of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, which the media described as a “rare overseas deployment” aimed at strengthening crisis management for a potential so-called “Taiwan contingency.” No matter such a shelter is real or not, such reports reflected a dangerous tendency in Japan – to hype up Taiwan Straits crisis and hint on elevating security connections between Japan and China's Taiwan region, making a veiled provocation against China.

More emergency humanitarian aid supplies provided by the Chinese government departed from Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday afternoon bound for mudslide-hit Nepal.

China will work to address the reasonable concerns of US companies operating in China, and safeguard a level playing field in accordance with the law, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Tuesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday delivered a speech at the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping left on Tuesday the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek after attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and a state visit to the Central Asian country.

Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the "SCO Plus" meeting held here on Tuesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China sees the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a priority area for high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road and implementation of the Global Development Initiative.

In response to a question about what further support China plans to provide to disaster-hit Nepal, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday that providing emergency assistance to affected areas in Nepal and carrying out international rescue cooperation are important political decisions made by China, reflecting its friendly ties with Nepal.

Asked whether Chinese diplomats in the Solomon Islands had any contact with local politicians who were pushing for a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Matthew Wale, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated on Tuesday that China has always adhered to the principle of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs and has never had, nor will it ever, interfere in the internal affairs of other countries in any way.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to uphold development as a priority, and usher in a future of shared prosperity.

“China's position on the Ukraine crisis and nuclear-related issues is consistent and clear, and China will continue to work for peace and dialogue and promote a political settlement of the crisis,” Chinese FM spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday when asked to comment on Finnish President Alexander Stubb's remarks in a magazine interview that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had assured him that China would not allow Russia to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict. Guo added that China has already released information on Wang's visit to Finland.

In response to a question about what further support China plans to provide to disaster-hit Nepal, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday that providing emergency assistance to affected areas in Nepal and carrying out international rescue cooperation are important political decisions made by China, reflecting its friendly ties with Nepal.

China has always maintained that cooperation between countries should be conducive to safeguarding regional peace and stability, Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Tuesday, in response to reports that the US and New Zealand plan to jointly develop a deep-water port in the Cook Islands at a site that previously served as a military base.

Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held on Tuesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday published a signed article titled "Celebrating 70 Years of Solidarity, China and Egypt Embark on a New Journey" in Al-Ahram, Al-Akhbar and Al-Gomhuria ahead of his arrival in Egypt for a state visit.

Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Sunday for a state visit and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that China stands ready to work with Kyrgyzstan to better align development strategies, deepen exchanges of experience in governance, deliver more tangible and accessible outcomes of practical cooperation, and make substantive progress in building a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.

The 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting is being held in Palau, with climate action and finance, food security, transnational crime, and other regional challenges high on the agenda. The meeting comes as Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr. has repeatedly hyped China's missile test in July, while "representatives" from the Taiwan region are also in Palau to attend PIF-related events, putting geopolitical factors under greater scrutiny.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin here on Monday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh here on Monday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev here on Monday.

China on Monday urged Japan to take its responsibilities, severely punish the perpetrator and conduct a thorough investigation and rectification after Japan dismissed Self-Defense Forces (SDF) officer Kodai Murata, who forcibly broke into the Chinese Embassy in Japan with a knife in March.

In response to a question about updates on China's rescue and relief efforts involving foreign nationals in the mudslide that hit the Gyirong Port in Southwest China's Xizang region caused by high-altitude glacier collapse in Nepal, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday that the sudden glacial collapse in Nepal's border region triggered a severe mudslide, causing significant casualties and leaving people missing on both the Chinese and Nepalese sides. While urgently carrying out rescue and relief efforts at home, China extended a helping hand to Nepal at the earliest opportunity and supported Nepal's emergency disaster response.

“Experts and official institutions from both China and Nepal have made assessments of the causes behind this disaster. Analysis shows it was triggered by a high-altitude glacial collapse in Nepal. In the face of major disasters, we firmly oppose such groundless malicious speculation,” Chinese FM spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday in response to inappropriate remarks by certain foreign media on the causes of the recent mudslide disaster at the Gyirong-Rasuwa border port between China and Nepal.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov here on Monday. Xi arrived in Bishkek on Sunday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 and a state visit to Kyrgyzstan.

Xi attends welcome ceremony held by Kyrgyz president

The China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation has ushered in a "golden period" of rapid development, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday as he landed in Bishkek for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 and a state visit to Kyrgyzstan, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

While US social media platform X hyped the narrative that China is influencing America's data center debate in the US, Texas Governor Greg Abbott pushed back against the notion, saying "none of that has anything to do with China," media reported.

From an escalating trade war to a dispute over the naming of Lake Ontario, tensions between the US and Canada have continued to deepen. Yet some voices in the US have sought to draw China into the dispute, portraying Beijing as a potential “winner” from the widening rift. Chinese experts, however, say that distorting risks reversing cause and effect: It is the growing strain between Washington and Ottawa that is pushing Canada to look elsewhere, rather than China driving the two longtime allies apart.

Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Bishkek on Sunday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 and a state visit to Kyrgyzstan.

China has provided emergency humanitarian assistance to Nepal after a severe mudslide disaster devastated their border areas on Aug. 26, the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) said on Sunday.

The Chinese Embassy in Nepal said on Sunday that it has coordinated with the Nepali side in the search, rescue and transfer of 94 Chinese nationals following severe mudslides and floods in the country.

Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Sunday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 in Bishkek, and pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt upon the invitation of President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt.

As China and Egypt mark the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations this year, the two nations are deepening cooperation across clean energy, digital infrastructure, aerospace, and agriculture, breathing new momentum into a partnership that has weathered seven decades of regional and global change.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday said that China's package of assistance to Nepal is being implemented, including emergency cash assistance and humanitarian aid, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday said that China's package of assistance to Nepal is being implemented, including emergency cash assistance and humanitarian aid.

On the streets of Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, billboards and signs bearing the logo of the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit can be seen almost everywhere. Even SCO‑themed graphics on new‑energy buses serve as a reminder that the countdown for the SCO's "Bishkek Moment" is in its final hours.

On August 25, Federico Roberto Antonelli, the cultural counselor to the Italian Embassy in China, gave an interview to the Global Times. The outgoing diplomat reflected on his 20-year diplomatic career in China. Antonelli's China story began before diplomacy. Influenced by his mother's diplomatic work from childhood, Antonelli first arrived in China at the age of two, accompanying his mother, a sinologist who served as the Cultural and Press Counselor at the Italian Embassy. He has personally witnessed the country's rapid, high-quality development over nearly half a century, spanning early days of reform and opening-up to the present day.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday published a signed article titled "Jointly Opening up New Prospects for the High-Quality Development of China-Kyrgyzstan Relations" in the Slovo Kyrgyzstana and the Kabar National News Agency ahead of his arrival in Kyrgyzstan for a state visit and attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 in Bishkek.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday hailed the historic leap in China-Kyrgyzstan ties from a good-neighborly friendship to a strategic partnership and then to a comprehensive strategic partnership for a new era.

Xi extends condolences over mudslide disaster in Nepal

The Chinese Embassy in Nepal has rebutted two pieces of fake news relating to the devastating mudslide in China-Nepal border areas, including a claim that the collapse of a geological-disaster dam on the Chinese side caused major losses in Nepal. The embassy stressed that "accusation helps nothing, cooperation saves lives."

China has long supported the development of the health sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and remains an important and priority partner, DRC Health Minister Roger Kamba said Wednesday.

China strongly deplores and firmly opposes the US' wrong practice of slinging mud at China under the pretext of cybersecurity, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular press conference on Thursday.

The Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in China and Vietnam's northern Bac Ninh province jointly hosted a seminar titled “Bac Ninh Province: Joining Hands for a Shared Future” in Beijing on August 24 to promote investment and cooperation between Vietnam and China. In his address, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Thanh Binh said that the event facilitates Chinese companies to gain a deeper understanding of Bac Ninh province's development potential and cooperation prospects.

Vice Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC) Lu Kang on Thursday met with a delegation of young Japanese lawmakers in Beijing, according to the website of the IDCPC. Lu said that Japanese lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties have proposed visiting China, and it is hoped that insightful figures in Japanese political circles will work to help steer China-Japan relations back onto the right track.

Against a backdrop of stabilizing China‑Australia ties despite differences remaining, Liu Jinsong, China's new ambassador to Australia, arrived in the country this week to take up his post. As observed by Global Times reporter, Australian media picked up positive and pragmatic undertones in his maiden remarks made public, while some outlets seized on his previous Japan‑related experience to label him hawkish and amplify bilateral differences. Analysts note that China has sent clear signals for steady bilateral growth and Canberra should set aside strategic prejudices and meet Beijing halfway.

Relevant Chinese authorities will release information on the meeting in due course, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian, noting that China-Japan relations are currently facing serious difficulties, the root cause of which lies in a series of erroneous words and actions by Japan's governing authorities concerning China's Taiwan region and military and security issues.

China strongly deplores and firmly opposes the US once again smearing it under the pretext of cybersecurity, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular press conference on Thursday.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung said Wednesday that the Vietnamese government will effectively safeguard the development rights and interests of Chinese enterprises and work to create a model of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation.

China and the United States should earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, and remove disruptions and overcome obstacles to high-level exchanges between the two countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Wednesday, according to a press release issued by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks when meeting with David Perdue, ambassador of the United States to China, in Beijing.

The 25th round of talks between the special representatives of China and India on the boundary question, which was held on Tuesday in Beijing, achieved an 8-point consensus, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing press release by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

After previously hyping China's construction project at Lingyang Jiao in the South China Sea as serving military purposes, Reuters on Tuesday published reports of new satellite images of the reef and claimed that facilities found on a nearby island could be used for radar and early warning.

Global perceptions of China are undergoing their most profound structural shift since the end of the Cold War, and China is expected to become the major economy that people around the world most aspire to by 2050, according to a new think tank report released in Beijing on Wednesday.

South Korean police launched an investigation and unveiled further case details on Wednesday, one day after announcing the arrest of a Chinese man, in his 30s, on suspicion of murdering a Chinese female graduate student, who was found dead in Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province.

Eswatini is currently facing a complex security landscape rife with telecom fraud and online‑gambling crimes, posing extremely high public security risks, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Wednesday, in response to media inquiry over Foreign Ministry's recent security alert which cautioned Chinese citizens against travelling to Eswatini for the time being and urged Chinese nationals and entities in the country to evacuate at the earliest opportunity.

From August 30 to September 3, Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit 2026 in Bishkek, and pay a state visit to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt upon the invitation of President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Wednesday.

China and India held the 25th round of talks between the two countries' special representatives on the boundary question in Beijing on Tuesday, during which the two sides had comprehensive, in-depth, friendly and candid communication on the China-India boundary question and bilateral relations, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

The third China-US Track 1.5 Dialogue was held in Beijing on Tuesday, bringing together government officials, scholars and business representatives from both countries for discussions on constructive strategic stability and practical cooperation.

After the US Embassy in Panama posted claims by US officials on social media smearing Chinese technology companies, the Chinese Embassy in Panama on Monday posted an image on its official X account showing a crying shaomai dumpling character with a listening device inserted into it in response. The post was captioned, “For those whose minds are filled only with geopolitical calculations, they might even suspect that there is a listening device in a shaomai dumpling.”

As military strikes and diplomatic negotiations have both failed to bring an early end to the roughly six‑month‑old US-Iran conflict, Washington rolled out new sanctions against Tehran on Monday local time intended to further strangle its economy. Iran, for its part, has vowed a tougher pushback.

China and India on Tuesday held the 25th round of talks between the two countries' special representatives on the boundary question in Beijing.

In response to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's global warning for countries to cut any financial ties with Iran or risk being cut off from the US dollar system, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a press briefing on Tuesday that China has repeatedly made clear its firm opposition to illegal unilateral sanctions that lack international law basis and are not authorized by the UN Security Council.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday held talks with King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein in Beijing on Monday, calling on the two countries to further deepen the alignment of development strategies. The Chinese leader also exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East with the King who is on a state visit to China, which runs through August 18 to 24, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

China's new Ambassador to Australia Liu Jinsong arrived in Australia on Monday afternoon to assume his new post, according to a release from the Chinese Embassy in Australia.

China and India are scheduled to hold the 25th round of talks between the special representatives on the boundary question in Beijing on Tuesday, and the two sides will discuss the boundary question as well as bilateral, international and regional issues, according to China's Foreign Ministry. Chinese experts said the regular talks signal that bilateral relations are moving toward greater stability and improvement.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein in Beijing on Monday.

China and India will hold the 25th round of talks between the two countries' special representatives on the boundary question in Beijing on Aug. 25, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Monday.

"Such remarks fabricate facts and distort right and wrong, constituting blatant technological bullying and unilateral coercion. China firmly opposes them," Chinese FM spokesperson Lin Jian said on Monday when asked to comment on allegations by some US officials on social media attacking Chinese technology companies, claiming that high-risk technologies from relevant Chinese companies could pose risks of espionage, cyberattacks and network disruptions, and urging the US' partners in the Western Hemisphere to swiftly turn to trusted suppliers to protect their citizens and national sovereignty.

As agreed between the two sides, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, and China's Special Representative on the Boundary Question Between China and India Wang Yi will co-chair the 25th Round of Talks Between the Special Representatives on the Boundary Question with India's Special Representative and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Beijing on August 25, a spokesperson from China's Foreign Ministry announces on Monday.

Two Chinese sailors have been rescued after a Panama-flagged bulk carrier carrying 24 crew members sank in the Bay of Bengal, about 230 nautical miles off the coast of Paradip, India's Odisha state, as Indian authorities intensified search-and-rescue operations for the remaining 22 crew members, according to multiple Indian media outlets and Reuters.

The Mbour-Kaolack highway project, built by China Road and Bridge Corporation, opened to traffic on Saturday at a ceremony in Thiadiaye, Mbour Department, in Senegal's western Thies Region.

The China-proposed four global initiatives offer a new perspective on international governance and new opportunities for international cooperation amid geopolitical fragmentation and global instability, said an Italian business leader.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Saturday inaugurated the 2,115-megawatt Julius Nyerere Hydropower Plant, a landmark project expected to strengthen electricity supply and accelerate industrial and economic development. Hassan inaugurated the plant in Rufiji District in Coast Region, saying the new generation capacity should produce measurable gains in manufacturing, trade, mining, modern agriculture, public services, investment and employment.

A long-awaited reunion that captured nationwide public attention unfolded on Sunday evening when American teacher Ronald Sakolsky and Yin Yuzhen, a model worker renowned for planting trees and combating desertification, reunited and embraced tearfully with overwhelming emotion at an airport in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, after 27 years of separation across the ocean. The reunion began with a single act of generosity in 1999. When Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a China-US education exchange program, he was moved by Yin and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings they bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape. This hug, transcending time and distance, marked not only friendship between the two countries, but also showcased the sincerity of Chinese people and a green miracle made possible through continuous joint efforts.

Following the earthquake in Colombia earlier this month, the Chinese government has delivered emergency humanitarian earthquake relief supplies to the country. Chinese Ambassador to Colombia Zhu Jingyang told the Global Times on Saturday that the two countries' support in the face of natural disasters vividly embodies the spirit of a community with a shared future for humanity.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto spoke highly of China's development achievements and called for overall strategic cooperation with China during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Defense Minister Dong Jun in Jakarta on Friday, according to a release from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

China and Indonesia have agreed to deepen synergy of their development strategies, deepen cooperation across multiple sectors including maritime affairs, and firmly support each other's core interests, during the first Conference of the China-Indonesia Comprehensive Strategic Dialogue Mechanism held on Friday in Jakarta.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's latest remarks that Washington will impose “the toughest sanctions in history” on Iran while urging China to cooperate reflect an attempt to shift responsibility for the prolonged Iran war and the failure of US pressure tactics. By trying to drag China into the discussion, Washington is essentially resorting to the ploy of “making others take medicine for one's own illness.” This amounts to the US' making excuses for its own erroneous policy toward Iran, said Chinese experts.

China opposes illegal unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law and are not authorized by the UN Security Council, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday, calling on relevant parties to act responsibly and seek a solution through political and diplomatic means.

China on Friday urged Japan's leaders to listen to calls from lawmakers and other figures for improving bilateral relations, after reports said Japanese lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties plan to visit China next week and said that the current state of China-Japan relations is not in the interests of either side and they hope to play a role in improving bilateral ties.

China launched the "Big Market for All: Export to China" Ethiopia Session on Wednesday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, as part of its effort to encourage and expand exports of Ethiopian products to the Chinese market. A total of 33 cooperation deals were signed between companies of the two sides, with a combined contract value of over 330 million U.S. dollars.

Fresh progress in China-South Korean ties was on display in another high-level exchange held Thursday between the two sides, following mutual visits by the two heads of state within a span of just over two months previously.

The Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in China hosted a commemorating session in Beijing on August 13 to mark the centennial of the birth of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz. The event is not only about remembering an individual leader, but revisiting a decades-old relationship. Delegates' speeches evaluated Fidel's role in promoting Cuba-China ties, especially when Cuba became the first Latin American and Caribbean country to establish diplomatic relations with China.

A Beijing visitor picked up a plate of rendang and a set of satay, learning about Indonesian spices, then paid the vendor by scanning a QR code. This is one of the typical user scenarios at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in China as it hosted Indonesia Fair the third year in a row in Beijing on August 15. Indonesian Ambassador to China Djauhari Oratmangun passionately welcomed all guests, inviting them to "taste Indonesia, hear Indonesia and dance to Indonesia."

The Embassy of the Republic of Colombia in China hosted a colloquium with Héctor Abad Faciolince, a Colombian novelist, writer and journalist. The writer shared on Tuesday his growth journey from a journalist to achieve his dream as a writer, his observation to the Colombian society and his impression about the changes in China.