BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday sent a congratulatory letter to the second Global Digital Trade Expo, which runs from Nov. 23 to 27 in Hangzhou, the capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province. Booming global digital trade has become a new bright spot in international trade, Xi said in the letter. In recent years, China has actively made alignment …

BEIJING: A museum showcasing the culture of the Grand Canal is expected to open in Beijing at the end of this year, with some 6,000 items or sets of exhibits related to Beijing and the ancient canal to be displayed in the collection. The Grand Canal Museum of Beijing, also called the Capital Museum East Branch, is located in the …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin in Beijing on Wednesday. Xi said that China and Russia, each other’s largest neighbors and both permanent members of the UN Security Council, share extensive common interests. “This year, President Putin and I had face-to-face in-depth exchanges twice and reached a lot of new consensus …

SHENZHEN: Chinese Premier Li Qiang has urged efforts to nurture new growth drivers and gather new momentum in the human resources services sector for the building of a modern socialist country in all respects. Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks in a recent …

NANJING: China’s first high-temperature superconducting low-voltage direct current (DC) cable has been put into operation in east China’s Jiangsu Province, greatly reducing electricity line losses. The cable was built by the government of Wujiang District of Suzhou City, State Grid Suzhou Power Supply Company, and Jiangsu Etern Co., Ltd., and has a length of 180 meters. The cable can greatly …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday attended the BRICS extraordinary virtual summit on the Palestinian-Israeli issue, saying that the parties to the conflict must end hostilities and achieve a ceasefire immediately. Xi called on the parties to stop all violence and attacks against civilians, release civilians held captive, and act to prevent loss of more lives and spare people …

YINCHUAN: In the absence of a professional setting and fill light, a mobile phone and a mobile phone holder are all that Du Zhanping can count on for his livestreaming efforts. Yet it was through this primitive set-up that the 46-year-old man in Xuanhe Township of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region managed to get a traditional felt making skill …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday addressed the extraordinary joint meeting of BRICS leaders and leaders of invited BRICS members on the situation in the Middle East with particular reference to Gaza. The following is the full text of his remarks: Working Toward a Ceasefire and Realizing Lasting Peace and Sustainable Security Remarks by H.E. Xi Jinping President of …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday attended the BRICS extraordinary virtual summit on the Palestinian-Israeli issue, saying it is imperative that the parties to the conflict must end hostilities and achieve a ceasefire immediately. Xi called on the parties to stop all violence and attacks against civilians, release civilians held captive, and act to prevent loss of more lives …

BEIJING: Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Uzbekistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov on Tuesday in Beijing. Han said China and Uzbekistan are ancient civilizations, and the age-old Silk Road witnessed the friendly exchanges between the two peoples for more than 2,000 years. Noting that since the establishment of diplomatic ties 31 years ago, the two sides have …

BEIJING: China has rejected Australian allegations of a Chinese warship engaging in “unsafe and unprofessional” behavior while interacting with an Australian vessel as completely unfounded. China vehemently opposes the “baseless” Australian comments, and has lodged solemn representations with the Australian side, said Wu Qian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, on Monday. Wu said that the Australian frigate …

BEIJING: China’s meteorological authority on Tuesday renewed a yellow alert for a cold wave, forecasting low temperatures and gales in some parts of the country. From Tuesday to Friday, temperatures are expected to drop by 6 to 10 degrees Celsius in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and in northern areas, according to the National Meteorological Center. …

CHENGDU: Intelligent infrared cameras installed in the Giant Panda National Park, located in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, captured real-time images of wild pandas nine times between Nov. 5 and 19, the Chengdu Management Branch of the national park said Monday. These cameras were officially put into use in December 2022 and have transmitted the image data of rare wild animals …

GUIYANG: Walking into the basement of the Geological Museum of Guizhou in the hinterland of southwest China, a soft buzz came out of a room around the corner. Sitting behind the table, Luo Yongming concentrated on repairing some paleontological fossils with the help of a stereo microscope. With one hand to adjust the focus of the microscope and the other …

BEIJING: China’s central authorities on Tuesday started a new round of environmental inspections, said the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. Five teams, conducting the first batch of this third round of inspections, have been dispatched to Fujian, Henan, Hainan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces for one-month inspections, according to the ministry. Inspectors will focus on issues such as the implementation of …

BEIJING: Blueberries are tart and juicy, but they do not last very long once they have been picked, so it is best to eat them quickly before they turn into mush. All this could change, however, as a new study found that compounds from sunflower crop waste could prevent rotting in the gem-like fruit, helping prolong its shelf life. Led …

SHENZHEN: The 25th China Hi-Tech Fair concluded in the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen on Sunday, with an attendance of 248,000 visitors and a cumulative transaction volume, including the intended transaction amount, totaling 37.28 billion yuan (about 5.17 billion U.S. dollars). Featuring participation from 105 countries and regions, the fair attracted over 4,000 exhibitors, with the exhibition area reaching 500,000 …

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and head of the Central Financial Commission, presided over a meeting of the commission on Monday. The meeting called for efforts to earnestly study and thoroughly implement the guiding principles of the speech by Xi …

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 …