BEIJING: Senior sports official Song Kai was elected president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) at its 12th membership conference here on Monday. The 58-year-old Song, head of the Administration of Sport in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, has been working as vice head of the preparatory group for the CFA election since June. “We will try our best to build …

SHENZHEN: Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang has stressed the significance of thoroughly implementing the innovation-driven development strategy and strengthening efforts in core technology breakthroughs in key fields. Ding, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during an inspection tour in Shenzhen of south China’s Guangdong …

BEIJING: Chinese-brand passenger car sales surged 21.2 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2023 to nearly 9.9 million units, industry data showed. The market share of such vehicles hit 54.6 percent in this period, 6.5 percentage points higher than the same period of 2022, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. In September alone, about …

BEIJING: China’s courier sector saw expansion in September, according to a monthly industry index. The State Post Bureau said the monthly express delivery development index came in at 406.1 in September, up 15 percent year on year. The sub-index for service quality grew 19.9 percent from a year earlier, the sub-index for development scale picked up 12.7 percent year on …

BEIJING: Authorized by Yang Liwei, China’s first astronaut to enter space, the Beijing Science and Technology Press (BSTP) published the picture book “First Man” on Sunday, marking the 20th anniversary of the country’s first manned space travel. The book relives the whole process of Yang’s historic flight in October 2003, including the liftoff, in-orbit flight and return to Earth of …

NANCHANG: During the ongoing Italian Serie A football match, it is expected to see the fans cheering with torch-like fireworks in hand. Still, few know that the sticks are mainly from the mountainous county of Shangli, east China’s Jiangxi Province. Hometown to Li Tian, inventor of Chinese firecrackers, Shangli’s history of making fireworks spans over 1,000 years. In 2008, the …

GUANGZHOU: The 134th session of the China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, opened on Sunday in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province. The event, which will run until Nov. 4, has attracted exhibitors and buyers from arcoss the globe. Over 100,000 buyers from more than 200 countries and regions have registered for the event, …

BEIJING: During a recent inspection trip to east China’s Jiangxi Province, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, a historical and cultural block, and an ancient village. The three places all bear notable hallmarks of Chinese culture. The visit came after Xi Jinping Thought on Culture was formally put forward at a recent national meeting on …

JIUQUAN: China on Sunday launched a Long March-2D rocket placing a new Earth-observing satellite into space. Coded Yunhai-1 04, the satellite was lifted at 8: 54 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and soon entered the preset orbit. It will provide services for the detection of the atmospheric, marine and space environments, disaster prevention …

BEIJING: An article on opening up a new frontier in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will be published on Monday. The article by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this …

NANCHANG: Doctor Liu Zhilong led a group of students through the misty woods to get a closer look at a flock of rare birds. Walking on tiptoes, they came within 10 meters of the blue-crowned laughingthrushes, a species under top-level protection in China. Liu from Taiwan University is the head of Linnaeus Laboratory, an organization engaged in popular science education …

BEIJING: During an inspection of east China’s Jiangxi Province earlier this week, President Xi Jinping walked into a production control center and a lab of Sinopec Jiujiang Company in Jiujiang City. There, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, learned about the enterprise’s efforts to build green and …

BEIJING: A bipartisan delegation of the U.S. Senate led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrapped up its visit to China earlier this week. During his stay, Schumer engaged in face-to-face discussions and dialogues with Chinese leaders at various levels. Such direct communication contributes to enhancing mutual understanding between China and the United States, and promoting the positive development of bilateral …

BEIJING: China’s consumer inflation stayed flat in September over last year’s higher comparative basis, while factory-gate price decline further eased, as the world’s second-largest economy maintained a stable recovery, data showed Friday. China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, remained unchanged in September compared with a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The …

BEIJING: In June this year, the China Table Tennis College of Shanghai University of Sport welcomed a group of players from the Papua New Guinea (PNG) national table tennis team, who came to the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai for a training camp. As their representative, 23-year-old Geoffrey Loi spoke at the opening ceremony of the training camp, during which …

BEIJING: China’s e-commerce logistics index, an indicator of logistics operations in the e-commerce sector, stood at 112.3 points in September, up 1.2 points from a month earlier, according to the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. The sub-index tracking total business volume last month stood at 123.9 points, marking an increase of 2.5 points from August, the organization said. The …

BEIJING: China’s total goods imports and exports continued to improve in September, with the trade volume reaching a new monthly high of this year, official data showed Friday. The foreign trade volume reached 3.74 trillion yuan (about 521 billion U.S. dollars) last month, registering month-on-month growth for a second consecutive month, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC). In …

FUZHOU: Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing has called for efforts to vigorously develop advanced manufacturing and accelerate new industrialization to lay a solid material and technological foundation for Chinese modernization. Zhang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the comments in Fuzhou, east China’s Fujian Province, where he attended a conference on …

BEIJING: The 18th National Congress of Chinese Trade Unions closed on Thursday. During the four-day meeting, amendments to the Chinese trade union constitution were adopted. The congress elected new leadership for the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) and the 18th ACFTU Executive Committee that comprises 278 members. It also passed a resolution on the report of 17th ACFTU Executive …

BEIJING: When the seedlings of a “magic grass” were first introduced to Papua New Guinea over two decades ago, people there were skeptical about its ability to help them. Over the years, however, this particular breed of grass from China, recommended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, has proven to be a seed of hope in this Pacific country, helping lift …

CHONGQING: Yi Shoucai, an orange farmer in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, has a name that can be translated as “Easily Guardwealth,” yet it was not easy for him to make a fortune in the first place. Yi, 50, grew lychees in south China’s Guangdong Province for seven years before deciding in 2004 to return to Chongqing’s Fengjie County to start …

BEIJING: The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 3 pips to 7.1776 against the U.S. dollar Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. In China’s spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day. The central parity rate …

NANJING: An international research team has discovered musculature fossils dating back some 535 million years to the early Cambrian Age in China. The team of paleontologists has reported their discovery of the microfossils, which have preserved the introvert musculature of cycloneuralians, a group of animals that includes roundworms, horsehair worms and mud dragons. The study was led by Zhang Huaqiao, …

NANCHANG: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected Jingdezhen City and Shangrao City in east China’s Jiangxi Province on Wednesday. Xi visited a historical and cultural block and AVIC Changhe Aircraft Industry (Group) Corporation Ltd. in Jingdezhen, as well as a village in Wuyuan County in Shangrao. He learned about the preservation and inheritance …

BEIJING: Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Jacob Wallenberg, Chair of the Board of Sweden-based Investor AB, in Beijing on Wednesday. Noting that China’s economy has generally picked up and improved since the beginning of this year, and the annual growth target is expected to be achieved, Han said that China’s policy of reform and opening up will remain …

BEIJING: Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang met with Oliver Blume, chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, in Beijing on Wednesday. Ding, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that the Chinese and German economies are highly complementary and have huge space for cooperation. As …

BEIJING: President of Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua met with visiting Reuters President Paul Bascobert in Beijing on Wednesday. Noting that Reuters was the first international mainstream news agency to establish a cooperative relationship with Xinhua, Fu said that over the past 66 years, exchange and cooperation of the two sides have achieved fruitful outcomes in various areas. Fu expressed …

BEIJING: Passenger throughput at the Beijing Daxing International Airport has surpassed 30 million this year, the airport said on Wednesday. As of Wednesday morning, Daxing airport has also handled approximately 570,000 tonnes of cargo and mail. Since kicking off operations on Sept. 25, 2019, the airport has handled 84.55 million passenger trips in total. To date, 54 domestic and international …

CHANGSHA: Over the past five decades, China’s self-developed hybrid rice has been promoted in an accumulative cultivated area of 600 million hectares across the country, helping increase a total rice yield of 800 billion kg. Rice is one of the most important staple foods for Chinese. Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, widely known as the “father of hybrid rice,” and his …

BEIJING: China’s vehicle sales rose 9.5 percent year on year to nearly 2.86 million units in September, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed Wednesday. In the third quarter, China’s overall performance in automobile production and sales exceeded expectations, according to Chen Shihua, the deputy secretary-general of the association. He credited the sales surge in part to the …

BEIJING: Tassos Vamvakidis, who has worked at the Port of Piraeus in Greece for over five decades, has seen the ebb and flow of this millennia-old port. Nevertheless, there are still moments that evoke strong emotions whenever he recalls. On Nov. 11, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Piraeus port, a flagship project of China-Greece Belt and Road cooperation, during …

ZHENGZHOU: With over 100 terabytes of storage, Zhang Mingyun’s hard drives house a photographic and video archive that spans four decades. This extensive collection meticulously chronicles the dynamic changes of the Yellow River and the remarkable transformation of the swan population that winters in the city of Sanmenxia in central China. These swans have evolved from a scattered few to …

BEIJING: China in recent years has seen concerted efforts from government departments and social sectors in promoting mental health among children and adolescents, the country’s top health authority has said. Tuesday marks the 32nd World Mental Health Day, which is celebrated in China with the theme of promoting child and adolescent mental health. “The key to work related to adolescent …

JINAN: Even though Sun Bingwu, 58, has tended to all of his 12 mu (about 0.8 hectares) of winter jujube trees, only a small part of his task has been completed. Sun has lots more work to do, because many orchardists in other regions are waiting for him to instruct them in the art of winter jujube planting. Sun, who …

BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with a U.S. congressional delegation led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in Beijing on Monday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, welcomed Schumer and his delegation to China, expressing the hope that the lawmakers will gain a more accurate understanding of China, …

BEIJING: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently made important instructions on the work of public communication and culture. He pointed out that the work is extremely crucial to the future and destiny of the Party, the long-term stability of the country, and the …

BEIJING: China is deeply saddened by the civilian casualties caused by the conflict between Palestine and Israel, and opposes and condemns acts that harm civilians, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday. Mao made the remarks at a daily news briefing in response to the conflicts between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip that have …

HANGZHOU: It is hard to tell that Kesia Pabula, who worked as a volunteer at the Hangzhou Asian Games, is Indonesian, thanks to her fluent Mandarin. As a senior college student majoring in psychology and behavioral sciences at Zhejiang University, Pabula speaks both Mandarin and Indonesian, which made her a very valuable addition to Games service at the Main Media …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the bipartisan delegation of the U.S. Senate led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the Great Hall of the People on Monday. Xi underlined that the China-U.S. relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. How China and the United States get along will determine the future of humanity. Competition and …

HANGZHOU: The flame in the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium was gradually extinguished on Sunday night, bringing down the curtain on the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, capital city of east China’s Zhejiang Province. Zhou Ling, an Arabic teacher at Zhejiang Gongshang University, saw her life revolve around the Asian Games over the past three decades. Then a senior at …