BEIJING, Sep 23(ABC): China had discovered a total of 173 kinds of mineral resources by the end of 2021, according to a report released by the Ministry of Natural Resources. These mineral resources include 13 types of energy minerals, 59 kinds of metallic minerals, 95 kinds of nonmetallic minerals and six kinds of water and gases. Among these, China saw …

HANGZHOU, Sep 24(ABC): At the crack of dawn on an autumn day, Lin Fang, 55, started harvesting water bamboo shoots, a seasonal vegetable. Located at an altitude of 1,000 meters, Lin’s hometown Daji Township is in Jingning She Autonomous County, east China’s Zhejiang Province. Due to its remote location, the county had suffered poverty for a long time. However, life …

NEW YORK, Sep 23(ABC): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that China-U.S. relations have been severely impacted currently, and the lessons from which should be learned by the U.S. side. Wang made the remarks during their talks at the site of the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of …

BEIJING, Sep 23(ABC): President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the China News Service (CNS) on its 70th founding anniversary, stressing the importance of innovating the discourse system and improving the capacity for international communication. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, underscored the need …

ATHENS, Sep 23(ABC): Hundreds were in attendance at an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of China-Greece diplomatic relations on Thursday evening at the Zappeion Hall in central Athens. During the event, also held in celebration of the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, 37 Greeks were recognized for their contributions to developing China-Greece relations. “China …

BEIJING, Sep 23(ABC): In the eyes of multiple foreign envoys, China’s sci-tech breakthroughs and green shift regarding infrastructure construction are creating opportunities for closer cooperation. While touring the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) on Wednesday, representatives from over 70 foreign embassies and international organizations learned about the evolution of China’s construction industry as well as cutting-edge technologies in this …

BEIJING, Sep 23 (ABC): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended on Thursday the United Nations (UN) Security Council foreign ministers meeting on Ukraine at the UN headquarters in New York. Noting that China’s stance on the Ukraine issue is consistent and clear, Wang said the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries should be safeguarded, the purposes …

CHENGDU, Sep 23 (ABC): Hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers celebrated the fifth harvest festival on Friday, as the country expects a bumper harvest despite COVID-19 and extreme weather. After overcoming the impact of last year’s rare autumn floods in the north, late sowing of winter wheat, the sporadic resurgences of COVID-19 cases, and severe heat and drought in some …

BEIJING, Sep 22(ABC): Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has extended festive greetings and sincere regards on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to farmers and people working on agricultural and rural fronts ahead of the fifth Chinese farmers’ harvest festival. Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed …

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22(ABC): A Chinese envoy on Wednesday rejected accusations by the United States, Britain and the European Union that China commits human rights abuses against its ethnic minorities. China’s permanent representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun called the accusations unfounded. Speaking at a high-level meeting to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on …

BEIJING, Sep 22(ABC): The electric vehicle (EV) subsidy provisions in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act are discriminatory and suspected of violating the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. The relevant provisions, granting tax credits for EVs on the condition of final assembly in North America, discriminate against other similar imported products and are …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 22 (ABC):The number of 5G base stations in China registered stable growth amid the country’s efforts to advance the construction of its 5G network in recent years, official data shows. China had over 2.1 million 5G base stations by the end of August, accounting for 19.8 percent of its mobile base stations, up 5.5 percentage points from the …

BEIJING, Sep 22(ABC): China will stay committed to achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality amid recent setbacks in global carbon reduction efforts as some countries fell back on coal plants to tide over an energy crunch, an official said Thursday. “Low-carbon transformation is no walk in the park,” Liu Dechun, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission, told …

BEIJING, Sep 22(ABC): Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), or the “China Sky Eye,” an international group filmed, for the first time, the magnetic ebb and flow nearby of a fast radio burst from out of the Milky Way. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the brightest, highly-dispersed millisecond-duration astronomical transients in radio bands with yet unknown origins. Chinese …

BEIJING, Sep 22 (ABC): China will uphold a “fair” position on the Ukrainian conflict, promoting talks and peace between the warring parties, the country’s top diplomat said. “It is hoped that all parties will not give up dialogue efforts and insist on resolving security concerns through peace talks,” Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, told his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on …

BEIJING, Sep 20(ABC):  A compilation of discourses by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, on socialist cultural and ethical advancement has been published by the Central Party Literature Press and released nationwide. Compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC …

NEW YORK, Sep 20(ABC): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday met with representatives from the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the U.S.-China Business Council and the United States Chamber of Commerce. Wang said that the world today is far from peace, as the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to end, and the Ukraine crisis was once …

BEIJING, Sep 20(ABC): Media registration for the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE) will begin on Wednesday, announced the organizers. Registration will be open until Oct. 10, and media personnel can register online through the CIIE website or its app. For the prevention and control of COVID-19, the fair mainly invites Chinese mainland journalists, mainland-stationed journalists of foreign media, and …

BEIJING, Sep 20(ABC): Senior Chinese leader Wang Yang Tuesday met with members of the newly-elected leadership of the China Islamic Association. Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, called for full implementation of the …

BEIJING, Sep 20(ABC): Huang Kunming, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official, on Tuesday called for efforts to open new horizons for ideological and political work in the new era. Huang, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks while addressing a …

BEIJING, Sep 20(ABC):  The international media has closely followed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attendance to the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and state visits to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from Wednesday to Friday. The global media believed that the trip is a landmark leading to a full-restart of China’s diplomacy of …

BEIJING, Sep 20(ABC): China’s government issued draft rules aimed at making it easier for some foreigners to enter China for visits to tourism sites along the Chinese border. Travel groups organised by tour agencies in border areas in China can choose their port of entry and exit “flexibly”, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said in a statement on Monday, …

Beijing, Sept 19 (ABC):Beijing on Monday said President Joe Biden’s latest comments that the United States would defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion “severely violate” Washington’s policy towards the island. “The US remarks… severely violate the important commitment the US made not to support Taiwan independence, and send a seriously erroneous signal to Taiwanese separatist independence forces,” foreign ministry spokesperson …

BEIJING, Sep 18(ABC): Chinese President Xi Jinping just concluded his two-nation trip on late Friday after wrapping up attendance to the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and state visits to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In a packed three-day schedule, Xi intensively attended nearly 30 events, featuring multilateral and bilateral agendas, and …

SHENYANG, Sep 18(ABC): Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, resounded with wailing air-raid sirens and vehicle horns on Sunday, the 91st anniversary of the September 18 Incident that marked the start of Japan’s 14-year invasion of China. As the three-minute sirens howled in the city, pedestrians stood in silent tribute and vehicles honked. Since 1995, Shenyang has sounded the …

BEIJING, Sep 18(ABC): Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, will travel to China for the 17th round of China-Russia strategic security consultation and the 7th meeting of the China-Russia law-enforcement and security cooperation mechanism from September 18 to 19, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning announced on Sunday. Patrushev’s visit is at the invitation of Yang …

GUIYANG, Sep 18(ABC): Twenty-seven people were killed and 20 others injured after a bus turned on its side in southwest China’s Guizhou Province early Sunday morning, local police said. The bus with 47 people on board was running on a highway section in Sandu Shui Autonomous County when the accident happened, the county’s public security bureau said.

BEIJING, Sep 18(ABC): The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) released a report on China’s food and nutrition development on Saturday. The report summed up the trends of China’s food and nutrition in recent decades, and presented a series of problems and suggestions. Since the reform and opening-up, China’s food production and supply have increased significantly, with its annual per …

BEIJING, Sep 18(ABC): China’s average contribution to global economic growth exceeded 30 percent during the 2013-2021 period, ranking first across the world, a recent report showed. In 2021 alone, China’s economic aggregate accounted for 18.5 percent of the world’s total after currency translation based on average annual exchange rates, the second largest in the world and up 7.2 percentage points …

BEIJING, Sep 17(ABC): China’s Shenzhou-14 astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong successfully exited the space station lab module Wentian on Saturday to conduct extravehicular activities (EVAs), according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). At 1:35 p.m. (Beijing Time), Cai opened the hatch of Wentian’s airlock cabin. By 3:33 p.m., both Cai and Chen were outside, said the CMSA. During …

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Sep 16(ABC): Chinese President Xi Jinping met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Türkiye on Friday morning at Forumlar Majmuasi Complex in Samarkand. Xi pointed out that in recent years, China-Türkiye relations have maintained a momentum of growth, with steady progress in practical cooperation and effective collaboration against the pandemic. Facts have shown that sound relations between China …

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Sep 16(ABC): Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Friday morning at Forumlar Majmuasi Complex in Samarkand. Xi pointed out that China and Iran enjoy a longstanding friendship and that their relations have stood the test of a changing international landscape. To consolidate and grow the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries is …

SHENYANG, Sep 16(ABC): The remains of 88 Chinese soldiers killed in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea returned to China on Friday from the Republic of Korea (ROK). Escorted by two Chinese J-20 stealth fighter jets, a Y-20 military transport aircraft carrying the remains and belongings of the fallen soldiers landed at the Taoxian international airport in …

BEIJING, Sep 16(ABC): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for resolute efforts to prevent major forest and grassland fires. Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks in an instruction on the country’s fire prevention and control work. Noting severe and complex fire prevention and …

BEIJING, Sep 16 (ABC):Many young Chinese have showcased their innovative business ideas during the ongoing national mass entrepreneurship and innovation week, which kicked off Thursday in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province. Themed “Innovation drives vitality, entrepreneurship creates employment,” the event will continue until Sept. 21. From creative cultural products and novel mushroom growing techniques to aerial imaging technology, …

BEIJING, Sep 16 (ABC):Chinese researchers recently published an assessment of the mitigation of China’s carbon neutrality to global warming, noting that the country’s efforts can mitigate global warming by 0.48 and 0.40 degrees Celsius under intermediate and very high greenhouse gas emission scenarios. According to the study published in the journal Nature Communications, compared with the period from 1850 to …

Beijing, Sept 16 (ABC):A major fire broke out in a skyscraper in the central Chinese city of Changsha, state media reported Friday, adding that the number of casualties was “currently unknown”. “Thick smoke is spewing from the site, and several dozen floors are burning ferociously,” state broadcaster CCTV reported. “Firefighters have begun work to extinguish the flames and conduct rescues …

Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept 16 (ABC):China’s President Xi Jinping on Friday called for regional countries to reshape the international order at a summit in Uzbekistan touted as a challenge to Western global influence. Leaders should “work together to promote the development of the international order in a more just and rational direction”, Xi said at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation …

Shanghai, Sept 15 (ABC): High winds and heavy rain lashed China’s densely populated east coast on Friday, after Typhoon Muifa forced around 1.6 million people to leave their homes and grounded most flights at Shanghai’s main airports. Muifa is the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Shanghai — home to more than 25 million people — since record-keeping began in 1949, …

SAMARKAND, Sep 15(ABC):  Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev here on Thursday. The two heads of state said that bearing in mind the long-term development of China-Uzbekistan relations and the future welfare of their people, the two countries will expand mutually beneficial cooperation, cement their friendship and partnership, and implement the vision of a community …