BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Thursday. Xi noted that Dr. Kissinger has recently celebrated his 100th birthday and has paid more than 100 visits to China over the years. “These two 100s give this visit special significance.” Xi said that fifty-two years ago …

URUMQI: An international dance festival opened Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, attracting artists to showcase their dances in an international arena. The 6th China Xinjiang International Dance Festival, with a theme of “Dreams of Dance, Harmony of Silk Road,” attracted more than 1,000 artists from Asia, Europe and Africa. The festival will last …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday stressed efforts to effectively strengthen farmland protection and fully improve farmland quality to expand agricultural production space. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while presiding over a meeting of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic …

BEIJING: Seventy years ago, a delegation of British industrial and business leaders embarked on an adventure to Beijing, driven by a desire to initiate trade ties with China and a keen recognition of its market potential. Led by entrepreneur Jack Perry, then chairman of the London Export Corporation, the British businessmen broke through the ideological barriers and blazed a trail …

BEIJING: Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong met with Wissanu Krea-ngam, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, in Beijing on Wednesday. Noting that China and Thailand are good neighbors, good friends, good relatives, and good partners, Wang said that the two peoples enjoy profound friendship. In particular, the two sides announced last year to jointly build a …

BEIJING: The National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection was held in Beijing from Monday to Tuesday. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the conference and delivered an important speech. He stressed that the coming five years will be critical to the building …

BEIJING: Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, will attend the 13th Meeting of BRICS National Security Advisers and High Representatives on National Security in Johannesburg, South Africa from July 24 to 25, and visit Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Türkiye before and after the meeting, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Wednesday. …

BEIJING: Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry in Beijing on Wednesday. Addressing climate change is an important aspect of China-U.S. cooperation, Han said, adding that it is imperative to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state at their meeting in Bali, follow the principles of mutual respect, peaceful …

ADELAIDE, Australia: China players have vowed to show their best form and prepare well for the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup. China, who reached the round of 16 at the 2019 World Cup, continued their training in Adelaide on Tuesday, one day after a 2-2 draw against Colombia in a warm-up match. On a cold winter afternoon at the Croatian …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Beijing on Tuesday. Noting that this year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations, Xi said China and Algeria are sincere friends and natural partners in pursuing common development and national rejuvenation. As China advances the great rejuvenation of the …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to promote the building of a Beautiful China in all respects and accelerate the advancement of modernization featuring harmony between human and nature. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at a national conference on ecological and …

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry in Beijing on Tuesday. China and the United States are both important countries in the world, and enhanced cooperation between them will benefit not only each other but also the whole world, Li said. The two sides should take concrete actions to implement the consensus …

WUHAN: China unveiled a series of commercial space projects at the recent 9th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum held in Wuhan. The programs are expected to provide more service in sectors such as natural resources survey, disaster warning and remote sensing. The projects include an ultra-low orbit satellite constellation, the Tianmu meteorological constellation, Luojia-2 SAR remote sensing application system, satellite …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Xi said that while being President of the Philippines, Duterte resolutely made the strategic choice of improving relations with China, with an attitude of being responsible to the people and history. China-Philippines relations were able to return to the …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has removed and appointed the following ambassadors in accordance with a decision from the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, according to a statement from China’s top legislature on Monday. Wu Wei was appointed ambassador to Micronesia, replacing Huang Zheng. Yu Jun was appointed ambassador to Uzbekistan, replacing Jiang Yan.

BEIJING: China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5.5 percent year on year in the first half (H1) of 2023, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday. China’s GDP reached 59.3 trillion yuan (about 8.3 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first half, NBS data showed. In the second quarter, the country’s GDP expanded 6.3 percent year on year, …

BEIJING: China’s box office revenue for the summer movie season, which runs from June 1 to Aug. 31, has reached nearly 8.79 billion yuan (about 1.23 billion U.S. dollars) as of July 16. According to box office tracker Dengta Data, this year’s box office earnings, from June 1 to July 16, have set a new record compared to the earnings …

BEIJING: Amid unusual summer heat, John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, landed in Beijing on Sunday. The visit comes at a critical moment. The globe is heating up. Beijing’s alert for high temperatures is no exception, as the whole world saw its hottest days on record last week. Reversing climate change hardly brooks any delay. China and the …

BEIJING: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has given important instructions on cyber security and information technology application work. He pointed out that since the 18th CPC National Congress, the country has made remarkable achievements in the development of its cyber security and information …

HAIKOU: Southern Chinese provinces are recalling ships to port and suspending ferry services amid warnings of strong wind and heavy rain caused by the approaching typhoon Talim. Talim, the 4th typhoon of this year, is forecast to come ashore near Wenchang of Hainan Province and Taishan of Guangdong Province on Monday evening, according to the Hainan Meteorological Service. Currently classified …

BEIJING: China’s automobile exports soared 75.7 percent year on year in the first half of this year (H1), sustaining the trend of robust expansion, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed. During the period, the country exported 2.14 million automobiles. Among the total, new-energy vehicle exports stood at 534,000 units, surging 160 percent from the same period last …

FUKUOKA: Peng Jianfeng won his first world title in six years from his favored 1m springboard diving at the World Aquatics Championships here on Sunday. He won the event at the 2017 Budapest World Championships, while slipping to third when the worlds took place in Gwangju, South Korea in 2019. The 29-year-old scored a total of 440.45 points in six …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the need to thoroughly implement the important guidelines of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on boosting China’s strength in cyberspace, and to vigorously advance the high-quality development of the work on cybersecurity and informatization. Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, …

TIANJIN: To achieve carbon reduction and improve energy efficiency, Tianjin has pushed forward the comprehensive transformation of its iron and steel industry chain in recent years. Iron and steel producers are encouraged to reform their energy mix, upgrade technology and develop hydrogen-fuelled transportation. The iron and steel enterprises still in operation in Tianjin have all completed the ultra-low emission transformation. …

BEIJING: Here are the latest Chinese sports headlines from the past week: Hangzhou Asian Para Games medals unveiled with 100 days to go With 100 days to go before the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, the design of medals were revealed on July 14 at an event held at Fuyang Water Sports Center. The medals, named “Osmanthus Grace,” draw inspiration from …

HARBIN: The images of a wild Siberian tiger have been captured recently in the Muleng forest area in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, local authorities said on Wednesday. In the footage, the tiger walked leisurely in front of the camera. Zhao Yue, a research assistant at the Feline Research Center of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, said that the wild …

BEIJING: Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Jose Vinals, chairman of Standard Chartered Group, on Friday in Beijing. China and Britain are highly complementary in trade and enjoy broad prospects for economic and trade cooperation, Han said. He said that China is committed to the path of reform and opening up, building a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment, …

An elderly runner from northeast China fulfilled his late wife’s wish to keep running. BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) — Slim, wearing a worn-out cotton jacket under the sizzling sun, an elderly runner caught everyone’s attention at a marathon held in May in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province. Xi Zhanyu, who is approaching 70, has kept the old jacket with him …

BEIJING: The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 209 pips to 7.1318 against the U.S. dollar Friday, 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 …

BEIJING: China’s electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, recorded steady growth last month, boosted by the overall recovery of the country’s economy, official data showed. Total power use in China rose 3.9 percent year on year in June to 775.1 billion kilowatt-hours, said the National Energy Administration. Power consumed by the primary industries soared by 14 percent year …

BEIJING: Chinese stocks closed higher on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 1.26 percent to 3,236.48 points. The Shenzhen Component Index closed 1.61 percent higher at 11,095.44 points. The combined turnover of stocks covered by the two indices stood at 920.8 billion yuan (about 128.73 billion U.S. dollars), up from 911.9 billion yuan on the previous trading day. …

BANGKOK: China’s track and field team kick-started their Asian Athletics Championships campaign here on Wednesday with the women’s 4x100m relay gold and three silver medals. In the women’s 4x100m relay final, Liang Xiaojing, Wei Yongli, Yuan Qiqi and Ge Manqi clinched the title for China in 43.35 seconds. In the men’s 4x100m relay final, despite the absence of their Asian …

LANZHOU: An asteroid was named after Chinese archaeologist Fan Jinshi on Monday in recognition of her contribution to the protection, study, and promotion of the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Dunhuang in northwest China’s Gansu Province. In the late 1980s, the “Digital Dunhuang” project was put forward by Fan in the hope of using digital technology to …

JIUQUAN: China on Wednesday successfully launched a new carrier rocket into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The Zhuque-2 carrier rocket blasted off at 9:00 a.m. (Beijing Time) and completed the flight mission according to the procedure. Developed by the Chinese rocket company LandSpace, the Zhuque-2 is the world’s first rocket to be powered by liquid …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed efforts to put in place new systems for a higher-standard open economy and promote the gradual transition from dual control over the amount and intensity of energy consumption to dual control over the amount and intensity of carbon emissions. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee …

PHNOM PENH: Nop Ratanak, a member of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP)’s Central Youth, was deeply impressed by how east China’s Zhejiang Province has transformed rural villages into beautiful green spaces boasting fresh air, lucid waters and lush mountains. “As a Cambodian youth, I’m very proud to have an opportunity to participate in this study tour, especially to see the …

BEIJING: Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with Ugandan Foreign Minister Jeje Odongo in Beijing on Tuesday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, said China will continue to support Uganda’s development and its efforts in improving the capacity …

BEIJING: A book on the thought of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on boosting China’s strength in cyberspace has been published by the People’s Publishing House. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to cybersecurity and …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed efforts to put in place new systems for a higher-standard open economy, as well as efforts to promote the gradual transition from dual control over the amount and intensity of energy consumption to dual control over the amount and intensity of carbon emissions. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of …

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Masatsugu Asakawa, president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in Beijing on Tuesday. Li said that the ADB is a vital multilateral development institution in the Asia-Pacific region, playing a positive role in promoting poverty reduction and development in the region and responding to regional and global challenges. China is ready to work …