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 …

BEIJING: A national meeting on the work of public communication and culture was held in Beijing on Saturday and Sunday. The most important outcome of the meeting is that, for the first time, Xi Jinping Thought on Culture was put forward. An instruction by President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and …

WUHAN: The cargo throughput through the ship lock of the Three Gorges Dam, part of the world’s largest hydropower project, totaled 127 million tonnes in the first three quarters this year, up 10.02 percent year on year, data showed Sunday. This is the first time the ship lock breaks the 120-million-tonne mark during the first three quarters of its 20 …

BEIJING: In 1988, when Xi Jinping took office as Party chief of Ningde, a mountain-locked prefecture in Fujian Province, one of his priorities was to resume a discontinued newspaper last published nearly two decades prior to his arrival. Due to its geographic disadvantage, Ningde’s economic performance had long ranked last among the whole province. Fact-finding led Xi to note that …

HANGZHOU: With the Hangzhou Asian Games drawing to a close, some memorable moments will be remembered by people from across the world for years to come. On the closing day of the sporting gala, Xinhua reviews some of the most significant moments. DIGITAL TORCHBEARER LIGHTING THE CAULDRON At the spectacular opening ceremony of the Games on September 23, for the …

HANGZHOU: Chinese weightlifters felt pressure from their rivals at the Asian Games, and would review their performances in Hangzhou to prepare for the Paris Olympics. The weightlifting competition concluded on Saturday with host China collecting five golds, three silvers and one bronze. DPR Korean weightlifters flexed their muscles by pocketing six golds and posting six records while Indonesia, South Korea …

BEIJING: Boasting a 5,000-year civilization, China has been committed to promoting its cultural advancement while breaking new ground in pursuing modernization. President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has always highlighted the work in the fields of communication, ideology and culture. Since the 18th CPC …

BEIJING: China resolutely opposes the move of the U.S. Commerce Department to place some Chinese companies on its export control “entity list,” a spokesperson with China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Saturday. The spokesperson made the remarks in response to a media query on the U.S. Department of Commerce recently putting a number of Chinese entities on its export control …

BEIJING: In June, a bowl of hybrid rice from Africa appeared as a special offering at the tomb of Yuan Longping, China’s “father of hybrid rice.” The gift was brought in person by Rakotoson Philibert, former Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture of Madagascar. Recalling that moment, Philibert said in a recent telephone interview that the hybrid rice developed …

HANGZHOU: Chinese swimmer Zhang Ziyang earned men’s marathon swimming gold medal Saturday at the Hangzhou Asian Games. The competition on the rainy morning saw 16 participants from nine countries and regions showcase their determination and skills. Zhang finished in one hour, 55 minutes and 45.8 seconds, closely followed by his teammate Lan Tianchen who clinched the silver medal by a …

BEIJING: A large building foundation site has been discovered in the ruins of Zhongdu, the capital city of the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), in Beijing, said the Beijing Archaeological Research Institute. The ruins of the erstwhile capital city are in today’s Fengtai District and Xicheng District in Beijing. It served as the Jin capital for over six decades in the dynasty’s …

GUIYANG: Zhou Piaopiao no longer has to cram herself into an overloaded vehicle for her journey to school in the mountainous region of southwest China’s Guizhou Province. A junior high student from Huishui County, she used to commute over 20 km in a hired vehicle, making the trip every Sunday and returning home every Friday. Things changed when a school …

BEIJING: The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the country’s biggest lender, has stepped up financial support in the agricultural sector to boost its high-quality development. By the end of August, the balance of ICBC’s agriculture-related loans had reached approximately 4 trillion yuan (about 557.12 billion U.S. dollars), the lender said. The bank has developed a slew of financing …

BEIJING: China’s box office revenue generated during the eight-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday through Friday has exceeded 2.5 billion yuan (348.2 million U.S. dollars). Domestic films dominated the holiday revenue chart, with Zhang Yimou’s crime suspense movie “Under The Light” leading with around 828 million yuan, or 32 percent of the total, as of 9 a.m. Friday morning, …

HANGZHOU: China successfully defended its title in the women’s basketball with a 74-72 victory over arch-rival Japan at the Asian Games here on Thursday. China, who sits second in the world rankings, surged to a 26-16 lead after the first quarter. After Japan tied at 72-all, Wang Siyu made a crucial layup in the final seconds to help China pocket …

LHASA: The Third China Xizang Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation released the Nyingchi Initiative in the southwestern Chinese city of Nyingchi on Thursday in a bid to deepen international cooperation in the trans-Himalaya region. Around the theme of “promoting the harmony of humans and nature, sharing the fruits of cooperation and development,” participating parties have had an in-depth exchange of …

HANGZHOU: China’s karateka Li Qiaoqiao clinched the women’s kumite 68kg gold medal on the sport’s opening day at the Hangzhou Asian Games here on Thursday. After sailing past Palestine’s Hala Alqadi 9-0 in the semifinal, Li had another comfortable contest in the final, taking down Laura Alikul of Kazakhstan 4-0. “Thanks to my team. Without their work, I couldn’t have …

BEIJING: With this year’s super-long “golden week” spanning both the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day holidays in full swing, Chinese people are fervently hitting the road to make the most of this eight-day holiday period. On Sept. 29, the first day of the holiday period lasting until Oct. 6, China’s railways handled about 20.1 million passenger trips, setting a …

BEIJING: As the eight-day-long Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays bring a new traveling craze, more and more Chinese tourists choose to embrace ecotourism via garden visits. Adorned with nearly 300 different species of chrysanthemums and hundreds of other colorful flowers, the National Botanical Garden of China in Beijing draws numerous photography enthusiasts, including Zhang Guangbin, a 70-year-old frequenter of …

HANGZHOU: He Jie claimed China’s first men’s marathon title at the Hangzhou Asian Games here on Thursday. He clocked in at two hours 13 minutes and two seconds to claim the historic victory. DPR Korea’s Han Il Ryong finished 2:13:27 to grab silver and China’s Yang Shaohui took bronze with 2:13:39. The first 30km saw seven runners stay close, but …

BEIJING: Assets under the management of China’s public offering funds totaled 28.71 trillion yuan (about 4 trillion U.S. dollars) by the end of August 2023, data from the Asset Management Association of China showed. By the end of August, a total of 11,111 public offering funds were being operated by 144 fund management companies, the association said. The scale of …

YINCHUAN: After attending the sixth China-Arab States Expo, which was held at the end of September in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Zhang Hong’en headed straight for a local planting base in search of Juncao, a high-yield feed crop with the potential to diversify the diets of livestock in Mauritania. The Ningxia native said that the natural conditions in …

BEIJING: China Development Bank (CDB), one of the country’s policy banks, issued loans totaling more than 340 billion yuan (about 47.36 billion U.S. dollars) for the urban infrastructure sector in the first nine months of this year, providing strong support for the construction, renovation and intelligent upgrading of urban municipal and public facilities. The CDB has integrated infrastructure, industrial facilities …

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 …