BEIJING: China is stepping up efforts to expand employment while addressing structural employment problems, as part of a broader push to boost employment, an official said. China has set targets of keeping the surveyed urban unemployment rate at around 5.5 percent in 2025, and creating over 12 million new urban jobs, according to a government work report unveiled Wednesday. Despite …

BEIJING: China’s defense spending has maintained reasonable and steady growth over the past years, a Chinese military spokesperson said Sunday. Wu Qian, spokesperson for the delegation of the People’s Liberation Army and the People’s Armed Police Force, made the remarks during the annual national legislative session. It was disclosed at the session that China’s 2025 defense budget in the central …

    The third plenary meeting of the third session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2025. (Xinhua/Cai Yang) The third plenary meeting of the third session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political …

BEIJING: Through head-of-state diplomacy, China’s relations with the world have undergone positive and profound changes, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday. In the past year, President Xi Jinping personally planned and conducted head-of-state diplomacy, and many fruitful results were achieved, Wang said at a press conference. The three major events hosted by China last year — the conference marking …

BEIJING (Internews):  Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian has expressed his country’s enthusiasm for the growing space collaboration with Pakistan. “Exploring the universe is humanity’s shared aspiration,” said Lin, highlighting the significance of the recent space cooperation agreement between China and Pakistan. The agreement is expected to pave the way for further collaboration in the realm of space exploration. Lin …

          Lei Jun, a deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), attends a group interview ahead of the opening meeting of the third session of the 14th NPC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei) Deputies to the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) attend a …

BEIJING: The 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s national legislature, opened its third session on Wednesday morning at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders attended the opening meeting. Premier Li Qiang delivered a government work report at the meeting. Lawmakers reviewed a report from the State Council on the implementation of …

BEIJING: China’s 2025 GDP growth target of around 5 percent, alongside the measures the country will implement to meet this goal, demonstrates its confidence and prowess in securing new achievements in high-quality development. The world’s second-largest economy will sustain its encouraging momentum and remain a key anchor in an uncertain global economic landscape. Taking all factors into account, the target …

BEIJING: The annual “two sessions,” a highly anticipated event on China’s political calendar, began on Tuesday with the opening of the annual session of the country’s top political advisory body. The annual session of China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), is set to begin on Wednesday. Offering a critical window into China’s development roadmap for 2025, the final …

          Chinese Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng gives an interview after the opening meeting of the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua) Chinese Minister of Transport Liu Wei gives an interview after the opening meeting of …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, on Wednesday took part in a deliberation with his fellow deputies from the delegation of Jiangsu Province at the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress, China’s national legislature.

BEIJING: China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes the U.S. decision to impose an additional 10-percent tariff on goods imported from China again, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. China will take countermeasures to firmly safeguard its own rights and interests, the spokesperson added. China is one of the countries with the strictest and most rigorously …

BEIJING: The United States should work with China in the same direction to resolve trade disputes through equal-footed consultation, a Chinese spokesperson said Tuesday. Lou Qinjian, spokesperson for the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress, China’s national legislature, made the remarks at a press conference. Commenting on the U.S. decision to impose an additional 10-percent tariff on goods …

BEIJING: The preparatory meeting of the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) on Tuesday adopted the following agenda of the session: — Deliberate the report on the work of the government; — Review the report on the implementation of the 2024 plan for national economic and social development and on the 2025 draft plan, and the draft …

BEIJING: China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, opened its annual session on Tuesday in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders attended the opening meeting of the third session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee, which commenced at 3 p.m. at the Great Hall of the People. At the meeting, the …

  This file photo provided by interviewee taken in May 2023 shows a century-old camphor tree in Fuzhou, east China’s Fujian Province. (Xinhua)     FUZHOU: A century-old camphor tree, once on the brink of death, has been revived as a group of deputies to the municipal legislative body in Fuzhou, east China’s Fujian Province, went to great lengths to come …

BEIJING: China’s AG600 large amphibious aircraft on Friday completed all of its prior-certification flight test subjects, a key step toward achieving its airworthiness certification target, announced the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). The Chinese independently-developed AG600 aircraft on Friday accomplished the compliance flight test subject of combustible liquid discharge at a civil aircraft flight test center in Pucheng County …

HONG KONG: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) will carry out the “reinforced version” of a fiscal consolidation program in the new financial year to restore fiscal balance and nurture new growth engines like artificial intelligence. The HKSAR’s 2025-26 budget released on Wednesday vowed a cumulative reduction of government recurrent expenditure by 7 percent from now through 2027-28. While …

HONG KONG: Hong Kong will endeavor to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a core industry and empower traditional industries in their upgrading and transformation, the financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said on Wednesday. While delivering the 2025-26 budget at the HKSAR’s Legislative Council, Paul Chan said that AI is at the core of developing …

HARBIN: Harbin Ice-Snow World, the world’s largest ice-and-snow theme park, officially closed its 26th edition on Wednesday evening in the city of Harbin, capital of China’s northernmost Heilongjiang Province, attracting a record-breaking 3.56 million tourist visits, said the park’s operator. This year’s attendance surpassed the previous edition by 31.4 percent, jumping from 2.71 million visits, according to data from the …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that history and reality show that China and Russia are good neighbors that cannot be moved away, and true friends who share weal and woe, support each other and achieve common development. He made the remarks when having a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the latter’s request. Xi said …

BEIJING: Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, has signed orders to publish three regulations on the military’s interior order, code of conduct and military formation. The revised rules, which will take effect from April 1, are designed to fully transform the country’s military into world-class armed forces, focusing on combat readiness and addressing the concerns of the armed …

BEIJING: Home prices in first-tier Chinese cities maintained an upward trend in January, adding to signs of stabilization in the country’s property sector amid active trading and improved sentiment. In the country’s four first-tier Chinese cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, prices of new and second-hand homes both went up by 0.1 percent from the previous month, data from …

BEIJING: As the Year of the Snake unfolds, China’s economy is setting the stage for dynamic growth, with consumption, high-quality development and the capital market presenting new growth drivers, signaling a strong recovery and a shift toward more sustainable and innovation-driven development. BOOMING CONSUMPTION China saw vibrant consumer spending during the recent Spring Festival holiday, with standout sectors including tourism …

BEIJING: China’s economy is expected to maintain stable growth in 2025, according to the Q4 2024 monetary policy report released by the People’s Bank of China on Thursday. Stimulus measures rolled out in late 2024 have already begun to revitalize production, demand, and market sentiment, which will further sustain the recovery momentum, according to the report. Domestic demand has shown …

BEIJING: On a balmy afternoon on the first day of the Chinese Spring Festival, a queue of nearly 40 people, over half of them being Chinese tourists, snaked around the plain ice cream stall of “Uncle Chieng” on Orchard Road, Singapore. “Recently, more than half of the customers are Chinese tourists. Around the Spring Festival, I sell about 20 percent …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 9th Asian Winter Games, which will be held on Friday in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. The top leader will also declare the Games open. Xi will host a welcome banquet for foreign leaders attending the opening ceremony, including Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, Kyrgyz …

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Beijing on Thursday. Noting that bilateral cooperation is expanding in scope and achieving more and more positive results, Li said that the ironclad friendship between the two sides has been renewed and deepened. Li added that China stands ready to work with Pakistan to implement the important …

            Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 5, 2025. Xi held talks with Zardari, who is on a state visit to China, in Beijing on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with …

BEIJING: Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, met with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Beijing on Wednesday. China is willing to work with Pakistan to continue the traditional friendship, implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, and accelerate the building of an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future …

BEIJING: Ice and snow have become an essential element in the Chinese people’s quest for a more fulfilling life, driven by a booming winter tourism sector, experts noted during a recent economic roundtable. The growth of ice and snow tourism has transformed how Chinese people perceive and experience winter, according to Dai Bin, president of the China Tourism Academy, who …

BEIJING: From winter sports to snow tourism, China is actively tapping into its ice and snow resources to create new growth drivers for the world’s second-largest economy, according to multiple officials and experts at a recent roundtable. Tourists are now more willing to pay for leisure and cultural activities related to ice and snow tourism, said Dai Bin, president of …

HARBIN: Located in China’s northernmost province of Heilongjiang, Harbin Ice-Snow World, a breathtaking ice-themed park known for its dazzling ice sculptures, is now one of China’s hottest tourist destinations. During the eight-day-long Spring Festival holiday that ended Tuesday, over 610,000 trips were made to the park. Daily trips on Saturday exceeded 100,000, setting a new record for single-day attendance. Since …

BEIJING: China’s film industry set a new record during the 2025 Spring Festival holiday, as the box office for the period from Jan. 28 to Feb. 4 reached a staggering 9.51 billion yuan (1.33 billion U.S. dollars), the China Film Administration announced Wednesday. The number of moviegoers also soared, with 187 million people attending theaters during the holiday, marking both …

At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, President Asif Ali Zardari will pay a state visit to China from February 4 to February 8. This visit coincides with the 10th anniversary of President Xi Jinping’s historic visit to Pakistan in 2015, as well as the joyous occasion of the Chinese New Year celebrations. The visit holds great significance in charting …

BEIJING: The Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is typically a time for family reunions and visits with friends. However, this year Ren Jun and his family decided to celebrate it in a different way. They set off on an adventure across northwest China, exploring ancient Buddhist caves in the mountains, discovering the secrets of temples, and even stepping into …

HARBIN: With just over a week to go until the opening of the 9th Asian Winter Games, the streets of Harbin are alive with both the festive spirit of the Spring Festival and growing excitement for the upcoming sporting event. At the Harbin Ice-Snow World, a theme park dedicated to the Asian Winter Games, visitors are treated with a spectacular …

BEIJING: China is inviting local and international journalists to cover the annual sessions of its national legislature and national political advisory body, both of which will be held in March, according to an official statement released Monday. News coverage of the two sessions can be carried out through various means, but mainly through on-site reporting, said the statement jointly issued …

BEIJING: The electric vehicle (EV) charging volume on China’s highways is set to hit a record high during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, according to data from the State Grid Corporation of China. Daily highway charging volumes are expected to average over 7.5 million kilowatt-hours during the eight-day holiday which starts on Jan. 28, marking a 52-percent year-on-year increase, the …

BEIJING: Chunyun, the world’s largest annual human migration, officially kicked off on Jan. 14 in China ahead of the Spring Festival. Authorities predict travel volumes will hit new highs during the 40-day travel rush. The latest episode of the China Economic Roundtable, an all-media talk show hosted by Xinhua News Agency, spotlighted key trends shaping this year’s travel season, including …