HANGZHOU: China’s athletes have demonstrated their patriotism, friendship, solidarity, and passion for sports at the Hangzhou Asian Games, said an official of the Chinese delegation. “As the Hangzhou Asiad coincides with China’s National Day, the outstanding performances of Chinese athletes in the Games has further aroused patriotism among the public and inspired people to pursue their own dreams,” Gao Chao, …

ZHENGZHOU: One afternoon in late September, little Zhang Haofeng sat down with his school friends and read out a poem he had just written: “In the eyes of a bug, / Raindrops form seas, / Big and small, / Wherever they fall, / But me, too, / I see those seas.” It was a rainy day, the children sheltering inside …

BEIJING: Chinese researchers have developed a new method of separating and recovering dyes from wastewater containing organic dyes that utilizes hydrophilic-hydrophobic heterostructure particles (HL-HBPs), and their findings have great industrial and environmental application potential. A research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry developed the new method and published their results in the journal …

TAIYUAN: A suffocation incident occurred on Tuesday in a corn processing mill in Xingping Village of Wutai County in north China’s Shanxi Province, resulting in seven deaths. Preliminary investigations found that the victims had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to local authorities. The incident started Tuesday evening when a person surnamed Shan entered the feeding pit of a drying …

BEIJING: China welcomes U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to lead a bipartisan delegation of senators to visit China, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. The spokesperson made the remarks after Schumer announced that he will lead a bipartisan delegation of senators to China in the coming days. “We hope this visit will contribute to a more objective understanding …

BEIJING: China’s national observatory on Wednesday maintained the yellow alert for Typhoon Koinu, the 14th typhoon of this year. In a forecast early Wednesday, the National Meteorological Center said that Typhoon Koinu had weakened in intensity from a super typhoon to a severe typhoon as of Tuesday night, while adding that gales and rainstorms are expected to hit the country’s …

TAIYUAN: China’s coal-rich province of Shanxi extracted 7.16 billion cubic meters of coalbed methane in the first eight months of 2023, a record high for the January-August period, according to the provincial statistics bureau. Shanxi’s coalbed methane output accounted for about 81.8 percent of the country’s total in the first eight months this year. Utilizing coalbed methane, a byproduct of …

CHANGCHUN: Rows of enormous wind turbines, with their gleaming white towers reaching into the sky, form a striking contrast against the backdrop of open fields. The massive blades, each spanning the length of a commercial airliner, gracefully sweep through the air, harnessing the unseen currents that propel them. This is a wind farm located in the city of Baicheng in …

HANGZHOU: Host China showcased its prowess in table tennis, securing six out of seven gold medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games, while paddlers from other countries and regions including South Korea, Japan, Iran, and India also made their mark on the field. China’s men’s and women’s teams effortlessly triumphed over all opponents with a 3-0 score to win two gold …

HANGZHOU: China collected an additional five gold medals on Tuesday, the final day of canoe sprint at the Hangzhou Asian Games. World champion Lin Wenjun crossed the line first in 47.623 seconds to retain her women’s canoe single 200m title. Orasa Thiangkathok of Thailand and Mariya Brovkova of Kazakhstan secured second and third places, respectively. “It is my last heat …

MOUNT CHO OYU BASE CAMP, Tibet: A Chinese expedition team reached the peak of Mount Cho Oyu, also known as Mt. Qowowuyag, on Sunday and set up an automatic weather station atop this mountain for the first time. The establishment of the weather station is aimed at revealing more about the characteristics of climate change in this extremely high-altitude region. …

BEIJING: China’s railways handled about 16.47 million passenger trips on Monday, the fourth day of the 8-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period, data from the country’s railway operator showed. China is anticipating 16.35 million railway passenger trips on Tuesday, according to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. Some 11,190 passenger trains are expected to be in operation, …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday sent a congratulatory message to Mohamed Muizzu on his election as president of the Maldives. In his message, Xi said that China and the Maldives enjoy a long history of friendly exchanges. The two countries are not only friends of sincere trust and mutual assistance but also partners of joint development and common …

LHASA: An 18-member expedition team successfully reached on Sunday the summit of Mount Cho Oyu, also known as Mt. Qowowuyag, which soars to 8,201 meters above sea level, to carry out scientific research. It was the first time Chinese scientists scaled a peak exceeding 8,000 meters in altitude apart from Mt. Qomolangma, the world’s highest summit. This aerial photo taken …

HANGZHOU: China’s Alex Hua Tian needed a clear round in the jumping on Poseidons Admiral to secure the eventing individual gold medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Monday. In doing so, the 33-year-old star rider helped China clinch the team gold medal, alongside Sun Huadong, Bao Yingfeng and Liang Ruiji. The gold completes Hua’s individual set of Asiad medals, …

YINCHUAN: When Ahmed Nazal Nuri, an official from the League of Arab States’ environment and climate affairs department, saw farmers in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region using a bale of hay to fix sand on a sand dune, he was amazed by this simple yet effective technique. He was visiting the Maowusu Desert in the Baijitan national nature reserve, …

HANGZHOU: China took four out of six gold medals in the canoe sprint competitions at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Monday. China’s first gold medal of the day came from the men’s kayak single 1000m by Zhang Dong in 3:46.224. Shakhriyor Makhkamov of Uzbekistan came second in 3:49.978 while Kirill Tubayev from Kazakhstan got the bronze with 3:51.399. “I definitely …

MOUNT CHO OYU BASE CAMP, Tibet: Snow and ice samples were collected on Mount Cho Oyu, the world’s sixth-highest peak, for the first time, in a bid to unveil more about the environmental changes in this exceptionally high-altitude region, the Chinese expedition team said Monday. The day before, an 18-member expedition team successfully reached the summit of Mount Cho Oyu, …

BEIJING: China’s “hot papers” account for 45.9 percent of the world total, ranking first globally, a government think tank recently revealed. Hot papers are papers published during the two years prior to classification that are cited a sufficient number of times in the two months to be placed in the top 0.1 percent of peer papers. According to annual statistics …

URUMQI: A group of 22 journalists from 17 countries concluded a trip to northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Friday, after gaining first-hand knowledge about the region’s economic and social development, diverse culture and the development of the Belt and Road Initiative. The trip, which started on Sept. 21, took the journalists to various places in Xinjiang, including the …

BEIJING: China’s foreign trade of agricultural products went up 2.8 percent year on year in the first eight months of this year, official data showed. The total value of China’s farm produce exports and imports stood at 225.39 billion U.S. dollars during the period, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. In breakdown, the country’s exports of such …

BEIJING: China’s railways are expected to handle 17.2 million passenger trips on Sunday, the third day of the 8-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period, data from the country’s railway operator shows. Some 11,574 trains are scheduled to operate these trips, according to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. A total of 20.098 million passenger trips were made …

HANGZHOU: Chinese shooters set a new world record of 357 hits in the women’s trap team event to capture the gold medal at Hangzhou Asian Games on Sunday. Improving the record by three hits, Li Qingnian, Wu Cuicui and Zhang Xinqiu led in the final with an absolute advantage of 20 hits from the runners-up, Rajeshwari Kumari, Manisha Keer and …

BEIJING: Sunday marks the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Addressing a grand reception in Beijing celebrating the occasion earlier this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on the nation to firm up confidence and strive in unity to continue to surmount difficulties and march toward the goal of building a strong China and realizing …

HANGZHOU: Top seed Zhang Zhizhen of China secured his first Asian Games gold medal with a 6-4, 7-6 (7) victory over Japan’s Yosuke Watanuki in the tennis men’s singles here on Saturday, while Chinese Taipei made history by grabbing both men’s and women’s doubles titles at the Asiad for the first time. Zhang’s win was also the first men’s singles …

BEIJING: An article on handling major issues properly to advance Chinese modernization by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will be published on Sunday. The article by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year’s 19th issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine …

BEIJING: On Saturday, President Xi Jinping paid silent tribute and laid flower baskets at the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tian’anmen Square in central Beijing, to mark China’s 10th Martyrs’ Day. In 2014, China’s top legislature approved the establishment of Martyrs’ Day, which falls on Sept. 30, to commemorate those who lost their lives fighting for national independence and …

BEIJING: The number of railway trips made by Chinese passengers hit 20.098 million on Friday, the third day of the 12-day travel rush for the National Day holiday and the Mid-Autumn Festival, the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. said Saturday. According to the company, this marks a record-high number of daily railway passenger trips. On Saturday, China is anticipating …

HANGZHOU: Local favorite Zhang Zhizhen beat Japan’s Yosuke Watanuki 6-4, 7-6(7) at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Saturday to capture China’s first men’s singles gold medal in nearly three decades. Pan Bing won the men’s title for China at 1990 and 1994 Asian Games. Another Chinese player Wu Yibing, silver medalist at Jakarta 2018, suffered an early exit after a …

BEIJING: Xi Jinping and other leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the state attended a ceremony on Saturday morning in Tian’anmen Square in Beijing to present flower baskets to fallen national heroes. The event was held to mark China’s 10th Martyrs’ Day, a day ahead of its National Day. The other leaders included Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, …

HONG KONG: As the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Friday, overseas Chinese and their local friends in Asia-Pacific countries join activities in celebration of the moon festival featuring mooncakes, lanterns and moon gazing. Taking place annually on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, the festival this year is celebrated with various events that not only …

HANGZHOU: Chinese swimmers secured four more titles on Friday, concluding the tournament with 28 golds, 21 silvers, and 9 bronzes. Meanwhile, Indian shooters broke the world record in the 50m rifle three positions men’s team at the Hangzhou Asian Games. Five world records in shooting have been set at the Asiad so far, with three belonging to India, and the …

BEIJING: In an automotive workshop spanning an area equivalent to 16 soccer fields in Hefei, a city in east China’s Anhui Province, more than 800 robots are working collaboratively to assemble six different models of new energy vehicles (NEVs). This workshop is part of Volkswagen’s new NEV production facility, designed to address the swiftly increasing demand in the country while …

BEIJING: On this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Friday, Liu Jinxiang woke up very early to prepare for the family reunion dinner of the traditional Chinese holiday. “People who live in the northern part of China must have dumplings on the Mid-Autumn Festival,” said Liu, who hails from Shuangyashan City in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. “Today, we have pork …

HANGZHOU: South Korea won the gold medal in the esports League of Legends competition at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Friday with a 2-0 victory over Chinese Taipei. South Korea showed dominance in the sport, leaving its opponent with absolutely no chance to fight back in the match. Such a result was unsurprising, as South Korea took revenge on hosts …

HANGZHOU: China’s sensation Zheng Qinwen continued her good form from the US Open earlier this month, clinching her first Asiad gold in the women’s singles after defeating compatriot Zhu Lin 6-2, 6-4 here on Friday. 20-year-old Zheng, who had made it to the US Open quarterfinals, dominated the game with six aces in total. Second seed Zhu had taken a …

HANGZHOU: Chinese paddlers booked the two final spots of mixed doubles on Friday to secure the title in the table tennis tournament at the Hangzhou Asian Games. Top seeded mixed pair Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha knocked down Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin from South Korea 4-0 (11-6, 11-6, 11-8, 11-8) in the semifinals, while Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Yidi …

BEIJING: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has encouraged the children of martyrs to follow the examples of their heroic parents’ generation and dedicate themselves to serving as the loyal guardians of the Party and the people. Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks on Thursday in …

BEIJING: A reception to celebrate the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China was held at the Great Hall of the People on the evening of Sept. 28. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the reception and delivered an …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay in Beijing on Thursday. China has always supported the work of UNESCO, and together with UNESCO, has made positive contributions to safeguarding world peace and promoting global development, Xi said, adding that the valuable China-UNESCO cooperation should be maintained. The …