SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING: World political experts and business leaders are upbeat about the outcome of the latest meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden at Filoli Estate in the U.S. state of California. They commend the leaders for their courage in finding the right path for the two major countries to foster mutual understanding and engage in …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Monday respectively sent congratulatory letters to the 10th meeting of the dialogue mechanism between the ruling parties of China and Russia. In his congratulatory letter, Xi extended warm congratulations on the convening of the meeting. He said …

FUZHOU: With his fingertips tracing the raised dots on a Braille document, Wang Yongcheng, a national legislator from east China’s Fujian Province, said, “This is what democracy looks like. It’s tangible, visible.” Wang was carefully reading the Braille versions of four replies to the suggestions he raised earlier this year, a historic first in the annals of the National People’s …

BEIJING: Cold air will sweep China from west to east over the next four days, resulting in temperature drops and strong winds in different parts of China, the country’s meteorological authority said Monday. From Tuesday to Friday, temperatures are expected to fall by 6 to 10 degrees Celsius in vast regions of the country, with temperature drops in parts of …

BEIJING: China’s civil aviation transport continued to expand in October, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The total transport turnover of the sector was 11.01 billion tonne-kilometers last month, surging 158.6 percent from a year ago, the CAAC said. Over 56.05 million air passenger trips were handled in October, soaring 252 percent year on year, data from …

BEIJING: China’s railway passenger flow went up in October, data from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway) shows. Last month, a total of 336 million railway passenger trips were made nationwide, an increase of 25.44 million, or 8.2 percent, over the same period in 2019, said China Railway. During the eight-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday lasting …

BEIJING: China’s tablet computer shipments went down 3.4 percent year on year to approximately 7.05 million units in the third quarter of the year, according to an industrial report. The decline narrowed from a 6.6-percent drop in the second quarter. The better-than-expected performance is partly due to the growth of mainstream brands in the consumer market through technological innovation and …

BEIJING: China’s commercial vehicle sales soared 19.8 percent year on year to about 3.3 million units in the first 10 months of this year, industry data showed. Specifically, sales of trucks rose 19.5 percent year on year to 2.91 million units, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Some 389,000 buses were sold in the same period, surging 22.2 …

BEIJING: Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Sunday announced that a delegation consisting of Arab and Islamic foreign ministers will visit China from Nov. 20 to 21. Members of the delegation include Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno …

BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday briefed the media on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s talks with U.S. President Joe Biden and his attendance at the 30th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in San Francisco. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that it is widely believed that President Xi’s …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday evening returned to Beijing after holding a China-U.S. summit meeting and attending the 30th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in San Francisco. On Friday afternoon local time, before Xi left San Francisco, Mayor London Breed and other U.S. representatives saw him off at the airport. On the way to the airport, representatives of overseas …

BEIJING: With faith in product quality, Chen Xinyi, a college student in Beijing, swiftly placed online orders for a pair of sunglasses and a beautiful dress during China’s Double Eleven online shopping bonanza. She spent nearly 1,200 yuan (about 167.3 U.S. dollars) for the fancy goods. For the 21-year-old, this wasn’t an impulsive purchase. Chen’s decision to buy the items …

BEIJING: An exhibition commemorating the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus has kicked off in Beijing since Thursday. One of the highlights of the exhibition at the China Science and Technology Museum is a copy of “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium” (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), which was published in 1566. Limited replicas of some of Copernicus’ …

BEIJING: The booster of China’s high-energy synchrotron radiation light source successfully passed the acceptance test Friday, with its key indicators higher than the design requirements and its overall performance reaching the international advanced level. The light source, the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), is one of China’s major national science and technology infrastructure projects. Like a supersized X-ray machine, it …

LANZHOU: A Buddhist temple dating back more than 1,600 years in northwest China’s Gansu Province will reopen to the public on Monday after it had been closed for two years for restoration. Originally built in 363, Dayun Temple is located in the city of Wuwei on the ancient Silk Road route. The latest restoration project started in November 2021 as …

BEIJING: The national giant panda conservation and research center, a world-class platform for giant panda research cooperation and exchange, was inaugurated Friday in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, southwest China. The center integrates the resources of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda and the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, gathering outstanding giant panda research …

BEIJING: China currently has more than 10,000 major pharmaceutical industrial enterprises and the country’s ability to ensure medical supplies has improved, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Friday. The industrial output of the major pharmaceutical companies currently accounts for about 4 percent of the country’s total industrial output, data from the ministry showed. The industry’s investment in research …

BEIJING: China’s National Meteorological Center renewed an orange alert for snowstorms on Friday, warning that blizzards are expected to hit parts of the country’s northeastern and southwestern provinces. From 2 p.m. Friday to 2 p.m. Saturday, snowstorms will lash parts of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Sichuan provinces, which could lead to new snow depths exceeding 13 centimeters in some places, the …

LANZHOU: Every morning at sunrise, police officer Ma Ming and his well-equipped colleagues step out from their police station nestled within the picturesque Guanshan Mountains, embarking on their patrols in these relatively rare verdant landscapes of the Loess Plateau in the northwestern Gansu Province. The police station, headed by Ma, is responsible for safeguarding this critical ecological shelter for the …

BEIJING: More Chinese cities reported falling home prices in October, official data showed Thursday. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said 56 of 70 large and medium-sized cities saw month-on-month drops in new home prices, up from 54 in September, while 67 registered price declines for second-hand homes, compared to 65 in the previous month. In the four first-tier cities, …

HONG KONG: The International Forum on China’s Economy and Policy held here Wednesday gathered more than 400 participants to explore the opportunities and roles of Hong Kong under the trend of the country’s strides towards high-quality development. Speaking at the forum, John Lee, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said Hong Kong has the unique advantage …

BEIJING: China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been recognized as being of the required standard by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), making it a universally accepted navigation system for global civil aviation. BDS’s technical standards and recommended measures have been added to ICAO’s existing standard documents in Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, according to …

TAIYUAN: Death toll has risen to 26 after a fire broke out Thursday morning at a building of a coal mine company in north China’s Shanxi Province, according to rescuers. The fire ripped through the second floor of the five-story building located in Lishi District of Lyuliang City. Rescue efforts are underway, according to local authorities. More than 60 people …

BEIJING: Against the picturesque backdrop of the Filoli Estate in the U.S. state of California on Wednesday, a high-stakes meeting captured the world’s attention. In a significant rendezvous, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, have had their first vis-a-vis sit-down since their handshake in Bali, Indonesia, last year. The two heads of state delved into strategic …

BEIJING: An article on handling important relationships in the enhancement of ecological conservation by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will be published on Thursday. The article by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year’s 22nd issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship …

BEIJING: The first phase of the eastern route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project has benefited more than 68 million people in east China’s Shandong Province in its decade-long operation, China South-to-North Water Diversion Co., Ltd. said Wednesday. It has transferred 6.14 billion cubic meters of water to Shandong since it began supplying water in November 2013, according to the …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping is in San Francisco for a high-stakes summit with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, seeking the way forward for the strained ties between the world’s two largest economies. It is a coincidence that San Francisco was the first stop of Xi’s maiden trip to the United States decades ago. In the spring of 1985, Xi, …

BEIJING: China’s retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country’s consumption strength, climbed at a faster pace of 7.6 percent year on year in October, official data showed Wednesday. The increase, the fastest since May this year, accelerated from a rise of 5.5 percent registered in September, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to …

BEIJING: The overall rigid demand for residential housing and the needs of those who wish to improve their housing conditions in China remained sufficient, a spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) told a press conference Wednesday. As various regions and departments further implement supportive measures for the property sector, and a new property development model gradually takes shape, …

SAN FRANCISCO: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday arrived in San Francisco for a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, and to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting. He was received by California Governor Gavin Newsom, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other U.S. representatives at San Francisco International Airport.

XI’AN: A captivating 14-second jump-cut video showing an actress seamlessly changing into various roles from traditional Chinese opera has rapidly gained online attention. With over a million views and tens of thousands of likes, this video has introduced netizens to the rare national intangible cultural heritage known as Han Diao Guangguang. This localized style of Qinqiang Opera from Shaanxi Province, …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Tuesday for a China-U.S. summit meeting and the 30th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in San Francisco at the invitation of U.S. President Joe Biden. Xi’s entourage includes Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the …

SHANGHAI: A team of Chinese scientists has confirmed the first live birth of a monkey that contains a high proportion of cells derived from a monkey stem cell line, which paves the way for scientists to use chimeric primates to study human diseases. The experiment demonstrated that the monkey stem cells, a type of cell able to develop into many …

HAIKOU: Nestled in the picturesque Baishamen Park in Haikou, the capital of south China’s island province of Hainan, “Island Delights” is a handicraft shop with a collection of distinctive Hainan-themed handmade items and artworks, attracting a steady stream of passers-by. The owner of the shop is an American expatriate named Nicki Johnson, who is known as Xie Min among the …

LHASA: For Tibetan children like Ngogyan Tenzin who are from ordinary families, “going to school” was something highly unlikely several decades ago. In old Xizang, where the illiteracy rate exceeded 95 percent among young people, access to education was predominantly limited to the privileged aristocracy. Hailing from Nyemo County, located over 130 km from Lhasa, capital city of southwest China’s …

HOHHOT: The net profit of Chinese dairy giant Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd. surged by 16.36 percent to 9.38 billion yuan (about 1.31 billion U.S. dollars) in the first three quarters of 2023, the company said in its financial report. It generated revenue of 97.09 billion yuan, up 3.84 percent year on year, during the period. Sales volume growth, material …

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, sent a congratulatory letter to the 2023 annual conference of the summit for entrepreneurs across the Taiwan Strait. The annual conference, which marks the 10th anniversary of the cross-Strait entrepreneurs summit, opened on Tuesday in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province. The summit serves as a …

“The Chinese and American people are both great people, and our friendship is not only a valuable asset but also an important foundation for the development of bilateral relations,” Xi wrote in a letter to Sarah Lande. Xi Jinping (L) presents the granddaughter of his old friend Sarah Lande with a panda doll in Muscatine, a small city in Iowa, …

LHASA: The county of Damxung, meaning “carefully selected pasture” in Tibetan language, is located at the southern foothill of the Nyainqentanglha Range in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, with an average elevation of about 4,200 meters. Each September, 33-year-old villager Yonten and other herders migrate north to the lower winter pastures, to escape from the extreme cold and oxygen deficit …

BEIJING: China has launched the world’s first ultra-high-speed next-generation Internet backbone with a bandwidth of 1,200G bits per second (1.2T), according to a press conference held at the Tsinghua University in Beijing on Monday. The ultra-high-speed next-generation Internet backbone, jointly developed by the Tsinghua University, China Mobile, HUAWEI and CERNET.com Corporation, boasts a total transmission network spanning more than 3,000 …