On March 20, 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq, formally known as "Operation Iraqi Freedom," was given the green light on the assertion that Iraq's then-leader, Saddam Hussein, was harboring weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and was a threat to ...

​A 52-year-old man has been arrested for causing a wildfire on Mount Heng in Datong, North China's Shanxi Province. The fire was put out on Sunday morning without causing any injuries or damage to facilities.

The BBC said a top Chinese scientist had told the BBC in an interview “don't rule out lab leak,” but that scientist said he had not participated in any event organized by BBC recently.

Following the successful launch and docking of the Tianzhou-6 spacecraft, the Shenzhou-15 taikonauts have assisted the scientific team in carrying out six to 15 days of cell culture experiments in orbit. Among them is the first international research on human ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended a meeting on cultural inheritance and development on Friday and made an important speech. He stressed that ...

The re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-15 spaceship, with three Chinese astronauts aboard, has successfully returned to the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Freedom of speech should be guaranteed, Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye said in his first response to his recent comments concerning the sovereign status of ex-Soviet states, according to a recent interview with French media outlet Vu du droit, ...

Diplomats from 19 countries and a senior official from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) were given a warm welcome by locals as they began their five-day visit to Southwest China's Guizhou Province on Saturday.

Marking the 45th anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, people-to-people exchanges between the two countries have begun to resume rapidly in a post-pandemic era, while at the same time Tokyo is becoming increasingly aggressive ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday sent separate messages of condolences to Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a deadly train derailment and collision accident in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

The Chinese envoy to the UN called for strengthened cooperation in outer space to move toward a shared future, as the profound meaning conveyed by China's sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth II, at a side event of the 66th Session ...

The Taiwan question bears on China's core interest and there is no room to concede or compromise. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) remains fully prepared and ready to firmly defend China's sovereignty and territorial integrity at any time, Jing Jianfeng, ...

It is impossible for China-US military ties to move forward according to the pace set by the US, under the circumstances that US completely disregards some basic requirements set forward by China regarding the latter's core interests and major security ...

The weekend started from Friday in Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, with military uniforms and suits coming and going for bilateral meetings, speeches and discussions on security development in the Asia-Pacific region.

China's Ministry of Science and Technology has announced detailed rules for the implementation of regulations on the management of human genetic resources, which will take effect from July 1. The rules stipulate that overseas institutions or individuals are prohibited from ...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) entered into force in the Philippines on Friday, signifying that the pact is now effective for all 15 members, a new stage of full implementation for the free trade area with the largest population, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for shouldering new cultural missions and building a modern Chinese civilization.

Refuting a Wall Street Journal report claiming that China's peace plan carries the message that Beijing recognizes Russia's possession of parts of Ukraine, China's Special Representative for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui on Friday slammed the report as not only completely ...

China's Foreign Ministry on Friday once again slammed the US over its signing of the first part of the "21st Century Trade Initiative" with the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities on the island of Taiwan, and warned that all ...

Having completed all tasks, the taikonauts of the Shenzhou-15 manned spaceflight mission are expected to return to the Dongfeng landing site on Sunday: CMSA

COVID-19 has continued to be the most reported infectious disease in Beijing for five consecutive weeks, media reported Friday citing latest weekly report of Beijing municipal health authority, as sporadic reports of COVID-19 reinfections have kept increasing in some Chinese ...

Authorities in the city of Bijie, Southwest China's Guizhou Province on Thursday announced that two local officials were put under administrative detention and expelled from their posts for attacking a journalist. An investigation found that an investigative journalist, surnamed Li, who ...

A total of 578 national-level meteorological observatories in the southern China have recorded new temperature highs for the same period in history, including 25 recording highest temperatures as of Wednesday, since the latest heat wave that began on May 26. ...

Chinese children happily celebrate first International Children's Day after country downgraded COVID-19 epidemic management. The holiday fell on Thursday, with authorities planning more protective steps to ensure their health and happy childhoods. The Chinese Young Pioneers (CYP), a national mass ...

Foreign ministers from the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – kicked off a meeting on Thursday in Cape Town, South Africa, where they are expected to discuss a wide range of issues, including preparation for ...

Ahead of the scheduled seventh China-Germany inter-governmental consultation, both Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with ...

The number of candidates registering in 2023 for the gaokao, the national college entrance exam, has reached a new high of 12.91 million people, an increase of 980,000 from 2022, the Ministry of Education announced on Thursday.

Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu began his visit to Singapore and met Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen on Thursday ahead of the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, laying the groundwork for setting up a hotline ...

Chinese actresses Zhang Xinyu and Zhao Lusi were doxxed by cruel cat abusers as they openly opposed animal abuse amid recent controversial cases, which have triggered strong outrage and reignited calls for legislation to prevent cruelty to animals. ...

The US has stepped up efforts to woo India ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington, with its envoy to India recently hailing New Delhi as "one of Washington's closest allies," and saying India should decide whether ...

On Thursday, China came alive with vibrant colors and joyful laughter as children and families gathered to celebrate International Children's Day which falls on June 1.

PLA naval vessels are on their way to participate in a multinational exercise to be held in Indonesia next week. China has been holding intensive military diplomatic activities that boost understanding and exchanges to safeguard peace and stability.

​As China completed another feat on Tuesday, sending the country's first civilian taikonaut to China's space station, stargazers worldwide expressed willingness to carry out more cooperation with China in the aerospace field, despite an ever-intense China-US relation. Although the US ...

Both Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with Jens Plotner, foreign and security policy advisor to ...

One day before the International Children's Day, the Light Every Moment of Childhood campaign jointly organized by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the China National Children's Center, with support from the China Center for Child Welfare and Adoption, ...

Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai met with Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister of Myanmar Soe Htut for the second time in two months on Wednesday to further coordinate their positions on cracking down on telecom fraud, which ...

Local authorities across China are rolling out policies to help college graduates find jobs. As implementation of the national education ministry's proposal in May, the education authority of Central China's Henan Province has kicked off a local 100-day sprint from ...

South Korean K-pop girl group Blackpink was mired in controversy recently in China after calling fans from China's Macao SAR "Macanese." A subsequent apology did not entirely ease the criticism from netizens.

China's national maternal and infant mortality rates dropped to historic lows in 2022, ensuring that women's and children's rights and interests of health are effectively protected, China's top health authority revealed on Wednesday.

Ahead of the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue toward which there has been growing speculation about the meeting between the Chinese and US defense ministers, the US, following its commonly-used tactics, hyped again China's “unprofessional” intercept of a US spy plane ...

The US reconnaissance aircraft that was intercepted by a Chinese fighter jet was spying on and disturbing a routine exercise by the Shandong aircraft carrier group in the South China Sea, and the US' accusation calling the Chinese interception “unprofessional” ...

Experts warned on Wednesday of a dangerous trend in China-India relations as India is deliberately creating a hostile environment to hinder the normalization of bilateral ties, after a Wall Street Journal on Tuesday claimed that "China and India have ejected ...

Two aggressive external powers, the US and its ally Japan, are accelerating their moves to step into the South China Sea with their latest announcement of a trilateral maritime exercise with the Philippines on Thursday, the first such maneuver among ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday visited a school in Beijing ahead of International Children's Day, which falls on June 1.

During the weeklong trip starting from May 21 to various cities in Shandong, these foreign journalists visited China's high-tech manufacturing companies in Qingdao, modern agricultural planting centers in Weifang, and Chinese cultural relics in Jining, and shared their point of ...

At the invitation of the Chinese government, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of the Kingdom of Thailand will visit China from Thursday to Tuesday.

The US military on Tuesday accused China of conducting an “unprofessional” intercept of a US spy plane over the South China Sea, however it is the US that should reflect on its own provocative military operations near China in the ...

Starting from November 2022, the MPS launched the special campaign, demanding local public security agencies to thoroughly investigate major cases of setting up casinos and group gambling, focusing on rectifying illegal activities linked to rural gambling.

The Chinese Embassy in the US on Wednesday strongly condemned US sanctions on 13 China-based entities and individuals, vowing to do what is necessary to safeguard the lawful rights and interests of Chinese companies and individuals.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Tuesday the establishment of the Chief Executive Policy Unit (CEPU) Expert Group and the appointment of 56 members, with a one-year term of appointment. The CEPU Expert Group comprises members ...

Amnesty International has been criticized for fabricating reports about the disappearance of a Chinese student from Xinjiang, after both the student and his advisor confirmed that the student is currently in South Korea and never visited Hong Kong where he ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for accelerated efforts to modernize the country's national security system and capacity.

China successfully resolved 464,000 cases related to telecom and network law offences and crimes last year, with 351 ringleaders and key members of criminal groups arrested, the national teleconference on the crackdown on new types of legal offences and crimes ...

The path of Chinese modernization has inspired the world, as the first large-scale in-person political party activity after the COVID-19 epidemic kicked off in the city of Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province on Tuesday.

"We seek to learn from the Chinese experience and China is willing to give us an equal footing. However, the American approach is totally different in that they mix it up with the 'human rights' and think we must be ...

Senior Chinese demographers have called for local governments to strengthen their policies on supporting families, even if they only have one child, to boost fertility rates, as some local regions focused their policies on rewarding families with two or three ...

Two amphibious landing ships of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy were recently spotted in waters off the eastern side of the island of Taiwan, sending a strong warning to “Taiwan independence” forces and external interference, after the US ...

Recent weeks have witnessed closer and more frequent interactions between China and African nations with exchange visits by senior officials, and analysts said that with strong China-Africa friendship, bilateral cooperation would embrace a more promising future despite noises from the ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and Tesla founder Elon Musk met in Beijing on Tuesday, with the latter saying that Tesla objects to "decoupling" and is willing to further expand its business in China, according to a statement published on ...

With renewed tensions in Kosovo continuing to worry Europe, China said on Tuesday that it supports Serbia's efforts to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and urged NATO to respect relevant country's sovereignty and territorial integrity and do things that ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for accelerated efforts to modernize the country's national security system and capacity.

The US knows the cause of the current difficulties in conducting dialogue between the Chinese and US militaries, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday in response to US media hype over China "rebuffing" a possible meeting between Chinese and ...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang meets with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Beijing on Tuesday

The three astronauts on board China's Shenzhou-16 spaceship entered the country's space station combination on Tuesday and met with the Shenzhou-15 crew members living and working there.

At 4:29 pm on Tuesday, some six and a half hours after launch, the Shenzhou-16 manned spacecraft successfully docked with China Space Station core module Tianhe's radial port, according to the CMSA. The three crew members will soon enter Tianhe ...

The China Space Station staged its first “heavenly reunion” of six taikonauts on Tuesday evening after it entered the application and development phase at the end of 2022. Led by mission commander and veteran taikonaut Jing Haipeng, the incoming Shenzhou-16 ...

GTGraphic: Among the main pollutants, PM2.5 densities averaged 29μg/m3 in China in 2022, a 3.3% y-o-y drop. The proportion of days with severe pollution accounted for 0.9%, down 0.4 percentage points compared to 2021. Check the China Environment Report 2022 ...

The Dominican Republic launched its consulate general in Shanghai on Monday with diplomats and officials from the Embassy of the Dominican Republic and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Shanghai municipal government attending the event to celebrate the inauguration.

After winning re-election and extending his two decades in power, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday arrived in Ankara to meet with his supporters and called on them to build a "century of Turkey" together amid "concerns" expressed by ...

Good relations with China are possible even without being part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in an interview published on Sunday amid speculation that the Italian government was considering withdrawing from the ...

China's environment continued to see improvement in the last year thanks to comprehensive policies and measures, an annual report suggests, while the environmental authorities vowed to further enhance monitoring to reinforce long-term environmental improvement. China's 339 cities on average enjoyed 86.5 ...

With China entering a “wave-like” stage of COVID-19 infections, young people are the majority who get re-infected, and they have mild symptoms, said epidemiologists, dismissing severe risks of the recent surge. Several local governments rolled out new vaccines targeting Omicron ...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang held talks with visiting Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Frederick Shava in Beijing on Monday. Observers said Shava's visit sends a signal that China-Africa cooperation and relations are as ...

The temperature hit 36.1 C in Shanghai on Monday, setting a new record for the highest temperature in May in the city over the past century. Meteorological authority has forecast longer period and larger range of high temperature across China ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, stressed accelerated efforts to build China into a leading country in education as the Party's leadership convened a study session on Monday.

-Crew members: mission commander Jing Haipeng; flight engineer Zhu Yangzhu; payload expert Gui Haichao -Launch time: 9:31 am, May 30 -Time to stay in space: about five months -The first manned spaceflight mission at the China Space Station application and development stage

On a sweltering Friday afternoon, cranes periodically maneuver over a massive construction site in northwest Beijing's Haidian district. Inside the walled-up site, trucks and machines roar, though the sound is muffled. At first glance, this is just a typical scene ...

China's minister of defense Li Shangfu will attend an Asian defense summit in Singapore this week and introduce China's new security initiative. Experts said on Monday that the move will promote peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region amid tensions ...

Politicians and experts from six Lancang-Mekong River countries expressed their anticipation for Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) to entering a new golden era in the next five years amid laudable achievements in recent years at the 2023 LMC Week Activities on Water ...

After Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba openly refuted a Wall Street Journal report claiming that China had proposed an immediate cease-fire and recognition of the "occupied territories of Ukraine as part of Russia," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a congratulatory message to Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his reelection as president of the Republic of Türkiye.

The first group of Chinese Muslims has safely arrived in Saudi Arabia for Hajj of 2023, according to the China Islamic Association, resuming the pilgrimage which was suspended since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) unveiled the crew of upcoming Shenzhou-16 manned spaceflight mission on Monday.

The first China-constructed new-energy project in Bangladesh – a wind power plant popularly known as Pankha – has successfully entered operation and is generating electricity, facilitating the country's energy transition and green development.

Netizens warmly welcomed Ya Ya's return to the Beijing Zoo and expressed their affection for her return.

China unveiled the crew of upcoming Shenzhou-16 manned spaceflight mission on Monday. Veteran taikonaut Jing Haipeng, who will visit space for the fourth time during the mission set to be launched on Tuesday 9:31 am, will serve as the mission ...

The Chinese mainland still strives for peaceful reunification with utmost sincerity and greatest efforts, even though the secessionist authorities on the island and foreign interference are disappointing the public in the mainland on peaceful exchanges and cooperation. Experts said on ...

China recently unveiled a type of tube-launched suicide drone that has a breakthrough flight performance and can be carried by ground and maritime platforms, providing enhanced stealth and flexibility in missions, experts said on Sunday. The Peregrine tube-launched long-endurance folding-wing drone, ...

After wrapping up a joint military exercise with Laos, China is planning to conduct a multinational drill with Southeast Asian countries. Intensive foreign interactions of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) serve to boost cooperation, deepen trust and safeguard regional peace ...

China's Special Representative for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui's trip to Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, the EU headquarters in Belgium and Russia has sent an important signal that these parties accept China's crucial role in promoting peace talks, reflecting the changes ...

C919, China's self-developed large passenger aircraft, completed its inaugural commercial flight from Shanghai to Beijing on Sunday, creating a milestone in China's aviation industry, which aims to compete with global players such as Boeing.

Hong Kong's Civic Party, a major anti-China political group that played an instigating role in the social turmoil in Hong Kong, announced its disbandment on Saturday, as no member from the party was willing to take part in the Legislative ...

The 12th International AIDS Anti-Discrimination Lunch Day annual lunch event was successfully held on Friday, in Linfen, North China's Shanxi Province.

In the bright room decorated with cute cartoon images, a little girl is playing with the building blocks, and near her a little boy is reading a picture book. They are surrounded by a pink-and-blue slides, a gray fluffy rocking ...

Henry Alfred Kissinger, who turned 100 on Saturday (US local time), still keeps his great mind razor-sharp on US-China relations by explicitly warning Washington to "refrain from being heedlessly adversarial and pursue dialogue instead" for the sake of humanity. However, ...

After the end of the Korean War in 1953, most of the US' troops withdrew from the Korean Peninsula, leaving behind a mess – economic stagnation made people suffer from the effects of famine, and the leftover undetonated bombs still ...

The number of COVID-19 infections in China has increased since late April and entered a low-level and wave-like stage from mid-May with most cases showing only mild symptoms, experts from Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on ...

China Southern Airlines Singapore Office issued an apology on Saturday after a passenger complained over being verbally abused and called “dog” by a member of ground staff in Singapore. The company said that it has suspended the employee, who worked ...

The maiden commercial flight of China's home-made C919 passenger plane completed successfully Sunday. The much-esteemed flight, identified as Mu9191, from Shanghai to Beijing, was flown by China Eastern Airlines.

​A 102.3-meter Tibetan cypress in Nyingchi, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, has been identified as the tallest tree to ever be discovered in the Chinese mainland and has been confirmed as the tallest known tree in Asia.