A new bishop was ordained in the diocese of Linfen, North China's Shanxi Province on Tuesday morning, marking the second appointed bishop after the renewal of a China-Vatican appointment agreement in late October.
China's overall international migration trend won't see a radical change despite the COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly harsh environment, said analysts, after a Chinese think tank released a report on Tuesday saying that Chinese migration has grown steadily in recent years.
A Walmart store in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province, disinfected its store premises and disposed all its imported cold-chain foods after Walmart China ordered its orders to stop selling them, despite the foods testing negative for COVID-19.
After ravaging the world for almost a year, the coronavirus has finally made it to the Antarctic, which was considered “the world's safest place.” A Chinese virologist warns that the continent's freezing temperatures are suitable for the long-term survival of the coronavirus that could be re-released to the rest of the world years into the future.
As European countries have ramped up their lockdown measures amid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases and the US broke the global record for daily new infections on Friday with more than 400,000 cases, China is moving on with vaccine research and development (R&D) under control as Chinese vaccine producer Sinovac is one step closer to vaccine approval in Brazil after being issued a good manufacturing practices (GMP) certification on Monday.
China's top legislature on Tuesday reviewed draft legislation against food waste in Beijing, which would ban popular eating shows and require governments above the county level to establish food banks.
Among the 2.51 million Chinese students studying abroad from 2016-19, 2.01 million (80 percent) returned to China after graduating, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced on Tuesday.
When the Hefei-Anqing railway, a section of the Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed railway, was put into operation on Tuesday, it is believed to address inadequacies in the railway network in the Yangtze River Delta, and it will promote regional economic development, an expert noted.
Chinese coastal city Dalian rolls out citywide nucleic acid testing on Tue
Chinese lawmakers on Tuesday began deliberating a draft law on preventing food waste to ensure food security.
China's new generation medium-sized launch vehicle Long March-8 made a successful maiden flight from the tropical island province of Hainan in South China on Tuesday, sending five satellites into designated orbit at the same time.
Chinese experts have assured the public that vaccines which the international community has pinned its hopes on to curb the COVID-19 pandemic will still be effective against the new virus variant identified in the UK, despite the virus' stronger infectivity.
Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) on Monday issued a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) certification to Chinese vaccine producer Sinovac for manufacturing a biological active pharmaceutical ingredient and for its sterile production line.
Generally, bird flu can jump from poultry such as chickens and ducks to humans through respiratory infections, the expert said.
China is calculating how many people working in high-risk professions, including cold-chain, medical and port workers, will need to receive COVID-19 vaccines, health officials said Monday.
Chinese COVID-19 vaccines do not strive to be the first or the best, but that vaccine research and development should demonstrate a respect for science, health officials said Monday in response to concerns over China's vaccine R&D lagging behind in phase three trials.
A “modern style of marriage,” in which both members of a couple continue to live with their parents, and they bear two children, one taking the mother's family name and the other taking the father's, has emerged in East China in recent years. Yet controversy about the new-style marriage has followed.
China is calculating how many people working in high-risk professions will need to receive COVID-19 vaccines, health officials said Monday, as the travel rush of the Chinese New Year, also known as the world's largest annual human migration, draws close.
Xinxing, the world's oldest captive giant panda, died at a zoo in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Dec. 8, the zoo announced Monday. She was 38.
Two men from Changshu, East China's Jiangsu Province — including a courier worker — were fined and given prison sentences of nine and six months for selling citizens' personal information, a court in Changshu ruled recently.
Chinese netizens called for flights from the UK to be halted after a new COVID-19 variant sweeping the south of the country caused public fear and chaos. Experts said more attention should be paid to customs inspections and it would be reasonable to limit flights from high-risk regions until more is known about the variant.
China on Monday unveiled a white paper on the country's energy development in the new era, which will prioritize non-fossil energy sources and push for the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.
Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported 74 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, taking its total tally to 8,152.
A rare press conference was held in Beijing on Monday, where Xinjiang regional government officials and ordinary citizens clarified Western hype-up and rumors on Xinjiang-related issues, including "forced labor" and "building of re-education center."
Shanghai has recently seen more COVID-19 cases imported from Russia.
The Phase II clinical trial of the vaccine developed by Fosun Pharma has completed the enrollment of 960 subjects ahead of schedule and shown no serious side effects, bringing it a step closer to being sold on market.
Ezra Vogel, a professor emeritus at Harvard University and a scholar on China, Japan and Asia studies, dies at 90, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard said on Sunday.
The principal of a middle school in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province was detained on Sunday for beating a female student and forcing her to write a self-criticism letter disclosing her "sexual history."
A forum on vaccine industry marketing was held on Saturday in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province. Organized by the China Association for Vaccines, the forum attracted hundreds of enterprises, analysts, lawyers and scholars, who shared the latest information on the vaccine industry.
Can China plant vegetables on the Moon? What can we plant? The questions triggered heated discussions online over the weekend after Chang'e 5 returned to Earth on Thursday with 1,731 grams of samples from the moon.
Global streaming giant Netflix has pinned down the oversea distribution rights for the highly anticipated Chinese costume fantasy film The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity, which was just premiered in Beijing on Wednesday and is set to hit Chinese mainland cinemas on Friday.
An art exhibition focusing on young curators was launched at an emerging international Biennale in Jinan, East China's Shandong Province, on December 13 and will last for three months, to explore various forms of artistic expression within a multicultural context.
Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) celebrated its 21st anniversary since returning to the motherland on Sunday, with a flag-raising ceremony and a reception. The SAR Chief Executive credited Macao's achievements to the motherland, and vowed further integration.
The research and development process for a new vaccine usually takes at least a decade. But the deadly pandemic pushed the world to shorten the process to less than one year, which apparently increases the public's worries over the products' safety and efficacy. Can people accept such a hastily developed vaccine? Continue reading and let the evidence speak for itself.
Responding to the growing pressure on China's pension reserves, a former bank official is calling for allocating a proportion of assets confiscated from corrupt officials and a proportion of land transfer fees to replenish pension reserves.
China's leading vaccine maker Sinovac is working around the clock to prepare for mass production, with the first production line to secure 300 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine annually, the Global Times learned after an exclusive visit to the company's plant in Beijing.
China unveiled new rules for reviewing foreign investment on security grounds over the weekend in a major move to align with global practice in regulating foreign investment in the military, key energy and information technology sectors, and financial services.
A court in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality recently concluded the first case of infringement on citizens' privacy related to the COVID-19 epidemic, ordering a company that intentionally disclosed personal information to publish a written apology letter to the plaintiff, and pay 1 yuan ($0.15) in compensation for emotional damage.
As 2020 draws to an end, things are heating up at the Chinese mainland box office as two blockbuster films, The Rescue directed by Dante Lam, and Hollywood superhero film Wonder Woman 1984, were released on Friday. However, it remains to be seen if the two films will be enough to help the mainland box office break past the 20 billion yuan ($3.06 billion) mark in 2020.
Beijing authorities at a press conference on Sunday vowed to take a series of updated measures to curb imported COVID-19 cases, including advising returnees to take direct flights, requesting them to strictly follow 14+7 days of medical observation upon entering China, and strengthening management of a local medium-risk community where a recent confirmed case stayed.
The outer packages of two pieces of frozen Johnius carouna products imported from India to Shenyang in Northeast China's Liaoning Province have tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday.
NE. China's Dongning city reports 1 new confirmed locally transmitted case.
China has tightened requirements for passengers flying in from the US amid a spike in imported COVID-19 cases among those traveling from the US.
The reentry module of China's manned spacecraft Shenzhou-10 on Sunday arrived in the hometown of the late Chinese leader Chairman Mao Zedong in Shaoshan, Central China's Hunan Province, to honor the forerunner of China's aerospace industry and remind people of the original aspiration that guided China to advance steadily ahead in space.
The Global Times reporters on Sunday visited the COVID-19 vaccine Beijing manufacturing plant of leading Chinese vaccine producer Sinovac to see how vaccines go through a complex packaging process - from vaccine bulk grouting to packaging - before they are shipped to vaccination sites around the world.
The port city of Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, ordered all of its local medical institutions to enter wartime mode on Sunday, after the city reported a new confirmed COVID-19 case on Saturday, bringing the total to two confirmed cases and six silent carriers.
Construction of the world's first 100,000-tonne large-scale fish farming ship started in Qingdao of East China's Shandong Province on Saturday, pioneering a new mode of industrial farming with “movable fish farms” on distant seas.
The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Saturday conferred the Decoration of Honor – Grand Lotus, Macao's highest award, to top Chinese COVID-19 expert Zhong Nanshan and former Chief Executive of Macao SAR Chui Sai On for their contributions to the city. The announcement came ahead of celebrations marking the 21st anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland on Sunday.
Tongxiang, East China's Zhejiang Province, has tested 72 samples from personnel, packages, and environment after a batch of contaminated beef imported from Argentina was sold to the city. All tests returned negative results.
China has tightened requirements for passengers flying in from the US after seeing a sharp increase of imported COVID-19 cases from the US.
China's top respiratory diseases expert Zhong Nanshan said environment-to-human transmission has become a new pattern in the spread of COVID-19, and called on scientists to look for answers to this growing problem.
A massive gas reservoir with expected reserves of over 100 billion cubic meters was found in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to PetroChina's local branch.
China's Chang'e-5 probe retrieved about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, according to the China National Space Administration.
A total of 24,112 organs have been donated by Chinese citizens after their deaths from January 2015 to December 2019, and the per-million population of organ donations have climbed from 2.01 in 2015 to 4.16 in 2019, according to a report from the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation.
China is to give people in high-risk COVID-19 groups coronavirus vaccine first, aiming to build a herd immunity protection chain through an active immunization program, said a senior official of the national medical authority on Saturday.
COVID-19 vaccines are able to protect people from infections for more than half a year, but whether people can achieve life-long or 5-10 years immunity via vaccination is not yet certain, said a senior Chinese health official on Saturday.
Beijing raised its COVID-19 emergency risk level for the Dashanzi branch store of Hanting Hotel in Chaoyang district and other stores in the building to medium from Saturday, Beijing's Center for Disease of Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Saturday.
China is to establish "herd immunity" to the COVID-19 through an active immunization program
Moon samples collected by China's Chang'e-5 probe have been transferred to the Chinese research teams Saturday morning.
China stands ready to continue to strengthen cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) to advance the global origin-tracing of COVID-19, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a daily press briefing Friday.
Two Taiwan-based airline companies have confirmed that all Taiwan passengers to the Chinese mainland should use the right name for the pandemic in the nucleic acid testing certificate - COVID-19 rather than "Wuhan pneumonia," a hostile expression that is used by some pro-secession media outlets in Taiwan.
Travelers from overseas have to undergo a 14-day quarantine and health monitoring for another seven days after they arrive in Beijing, the Beijing government said on Friday, after the capital reported four confirmed COVID-19 cases and one new asymptomatic case this week.
Closely following the complete success of Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission on Thursday, China's National Space Administration (CNSA) disclosed plans for a slew of ambitious space projects that include a new three-step plan for the country's future moon and deeper space exploration missions, which Wu Yanhua, the CNSA deputy head, referred to as "surveying, constructing, and exploiting," as opposed to the already conquered goals of "orbiting, landing and returning" to the Earth's natural satellite.
The awards ceremony of the 2020 "My China Story" International Short Video Competition was held Friday in Yantai, East China's Shandong Province, with one Jury Prize and 32 Excellence Awards handed out.
The Chinese embassy in France on Thursday refuted two reports by Le Figaro which contained contents inconsistent to the fact of China's anti-epidemic fight and were misleading to readers.
Reconstruction of Shenzhen North Railway Station in South China's Guangdong Province has completed on Friday, marking the first project of its kind in China and showing the country's high-speed railway boasts not only robust and industry-leading technology but also mature operational and management capacity.
China National Nuclear Corporation and other institutions are researching irradiation technology to kill the coronavirus.
A total of 118,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in Southwest China's Sichuan Province and the province plans to vaccinate all high-risk groups by February 5, local health officials said Thursday.
Wuhan may not be the location where the coronavirus made the zoonotic jump from animals to humans, with the transmission chain in the city potentially originating from humans, Chinese analysts said regarding the World Health Organization (WHO) international team's scheduled visit to Wuhan, noting that the team needs to investigate visitors, both Chinese and foreign, who came to Wuhan before the outbreak began, including foreign athletes attending the Military World Games held in Wuhan in October 2019. Chinese analysts believe the WHO team probably will not discover that the virus' zoonosis began in Wuhan.
Chinese vaccines are gaining momentum as more countries order China-produced COVID-19 vaccines, with Brazil being the latest to put China's Sinovac Biotech vaccines into its national immunization plan.
On the freezing grassland in Siziwang Banner, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a Chinese national flag was placed right next to the re-entry capsule of Chang'e-5 lunar probe, whose epic predawn landing on Thursday provided the perfect climax to China's latest moon missions—an epic moon sample return mission.
It seemed the development of Dadiba village had no solution, but the past years proves another story.
Every year, tens of thousands of people visit the county-level city, a sacred place in China's history of revolution in modern history, to trace and worship the Jinggangshan spirit - "overcoming difficulties with hard work and relying on the masses for victory."
With Chang'e-5 probe making a perfect conclusion to its 23-day journey to the moon, bringing back soil from Earth's celestial neighbor, Central China's Hunan Province, the hometown of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, will be one of the sites where the moon samples are stored, to commemorate the leader and his passion for space exploration, China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday.
Two asymptomatic coronavirus cases were reported in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province on Thursday. The two are carriers of a company.
A complaint made by Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (HKPTU) against a China Central Television (CCTV) program was rejected by the Hong Kong Communications Authority (CA) on Tuesday.
Bullfrog samples from a popular hotpot restaurant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, were found to contain furacilin metabolites, an antimicrobial drug that is widely used in treating animal diseases but harmful to human. The restaurant responded that the batch of bullfrogs had not been used in its dishes.
Lang Ping, one of China's most respected sports figures, will continue coaching Chinese women's national volleyball team until the end of the Tokyo Olympics, which is now rescheduled for summer 2021. The director of the Volleyball Management Center of China's State General Administration of Sports, Li Quanqiang, revealed on Thursday that Lang has renewed her contract with the Chinese national team. Lang's original contract was set to expire in August this year. With the Tokyo Olympics postponed, she renewed her contract accordingly, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
With Chang'e-5 probe making a perfect conclusion to its 23-day journey to the moon, bringing back soil from Earth's celestial neighbor, Central China's Hunan Province, the hometown of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, will be one of the sites where the moon samples are stored, to commemorate the leader and his passion for space exploration, China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday.
Chang'e-5 mission a milestone achievement, lays foundation for future lunar, asteroid missions: CNSA deputy head
China has been actively providing ways for Chinese compatriots to get back home while also establishing an effective mechanism to facilitate business travel for personnel stranded overseas.
British Ambassador to China Caroline Wilson has just finished her four-day visit to Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, which was hit the hardest by COVID-19 in the country early this year. During the visit, she acknowledged the city's efforts in containing the coronavirus and expressed a wish to see cutting-edge cooperation between Hubei and the UK.
The drumsticks were from a Lai'an-based subsidiary of US food giant Cargill.
The COVID-19 vaccines made by China's Sinovac Biotech have been included in the immunization plan of Brazil, a country that has seen over 7 million confirmed COVID-19 infections, Brazilian media reported.
China's women's volleyball team coach Lang Ping has extended her contract until the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, a top official of the Chinese volleyball association told Xinhua on Thursday.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a live-streaming charity sale as part of its "Love Knows No Borders - Let Dreams Take Flight" charity event. Foreign diplomats to China donated all sorts of indigenous products for sale and told the Global Times they admire China's poverty alleviation achievements and are honored to contribute to it.
The popular South Korean show Running Man recently caused a storm of anger among Chinese netizens after using a game map which tied the Chinese national flag with the officially unrecognized "Taiwan flag." It is not the first time South Korea's entertainment industry has caused controversy in China, by touching China's bottom line on political issues or making inappropriate comments.
Carrying around 2 kilograms of lunar samples, China's Chang'e-5 safely landed at its designated landing area in Siziwang Banner, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region around 2 am Thursday, bringing the craft's epic round trip between Earth and its celestial neighbor located some 380,000 kilometers away to a perfect conclusion.
December 27, 2019 marks the starting point for China's battle against the novel coronavirus. It was on that day that Zhang Jixian, a doctor at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, first reported cases of what was then called a “pneumonia of unknown origin.” One year has passed, with the wounds the lethal virus inflicted on Wuhan gradually healing, although some Western countries are still leveling blame against China for its initial anti-virus response. It is meaningful and necessary to review the first 40 days following December 27, 2019, to see how the medical staff in Wuhan strived to save patients' lives, what the residents experienced and how the enormous nation-wide aid to the city helped restore order.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has set up a 10-person international team on the global study of the origins of the novel coronavirus to visit China soon to investigate what one team member said was "where the virus first jumped from animals to humans."
An eastern Chinese city recently caused heated debate online after banning local government officials from using heating devices on milder winter days in order to save energy.
An international team from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University confirmed the existence of a galaxy 13.4 billion lightyears away, which is the most distant astronomical object ever discovered.
According to statistics, more than half of Chinese, about 700 million, have been infected with the helicobacter pylori (H pylori), which is mainly transmitted through the mouth and many patients have developed a drug resistance, media reports said on Wednesday.
An integrated circuit (IC) section will be added to the Intelligent Industry and Information of Technology area at the 4th China International Import Expo (CIIE), announced the first promotional event of the expo held in Shanghai on Wednesday as preparation work of the expo starts.
China's National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center released the top 10 new buzzwords which were popular among Chinese online media in 2020, including digital renminbi, silent coronavirus carriers and health codes, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE) on Wednesday.
China is preparing for mass production of COVID-19 vaccine, said national health authority on Wednesday.
The Shanghai Medical Emergency Center and border defense and port branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau jointly launched a maritime rescue project on Wednesday, opening a new prelude of Shanghai's first aid integration between land and maritime departments.
Shenzhen procuratorate Wednesday initiated prosecution of 10 Hong Kong residents who illegally crossed the border area in August, and they are suspected of trying to escape to the island of Taiwan. The hearing of two underage persons will not be made public.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said on Wednesday that the Chinese mainland will take all necessary measures to resolutely smash any secessionism attempts and safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, in response to a question on whether the mainland will introduce a national reunification law.