BEIJING, June 20 (ABC): China has played a constructive role in the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations to facilitate a major decision on the waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, an official with the Ministry of Commerce said Monday. Due to the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, developing members will be authorized to produce COVID-19 vaccines without …

BEIJING, June 21 (ABC): China’s central bank has ramped up support for renminbi settlement in new forms and models of foreign trade to better serve the real economy and facilitate trade and investment. In a recent circular, the People’s Bank of China improved policies for cross-border renminbi business in e-commerce and other new models of foreign trade. The business scope …

FUZHOU, June 21 (ABC): Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua on Monday urged solid action on rural construction, in a bid to push forward rural revitalization and modernization. Describing rural construction as a significant part of national modernization, Hu said that unremitting efforts should be made to ensure rural residents can also lead modern lives. He made the comments while addressing …

BEIJING, June 21(ABC): China has recruited 1.48 million more full-time teachers for the country’s compulsory education over the past ten years, bringing the total number of such teachers to 10.57 million, statistics released by the Ministry of Education showed Tuesday. China now has 158 million students in 207,000 schools for the nine-year compulsory education. The compulsory-education retention rate reached 95.4%, up …

BEIJING, June 21 (ABC): A 6-year old Pakistani child has been successfully treated for brainstem tumor at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University (ZNWU) in China. “Thank you so much! Chinese doctors and nurses are so nice. Your efforts mean a lot to my family,” said Muhammad Arshad, the father of Arshad Jr who was diagnosed with brainstem tumor in the …

BEIJING, June 20 (ABC): Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged students from the Army Infantry Academy of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to contribute to the cause of strengthening China’s armed forces. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a letter replying to all …

BEIJING, June 20 (ABC): China will launch a nationwide campaign to provide psychological care for the elderly, according to the National Health Commission. The campaign, which will run from 2022 to 2025, aims to assess the mental health status and needs of the elderly, enhance their mental health awareness and render mental health support as well as improve the level …

BEIJING, June 20 (ABC): Flood control authority in south China’s Pearl River basin activated a Level-II emergency response on Monday as persistent heavy rain over the past week has swollen rivers that could cause major floods in the region. The Pearl River flood control and drought relief headquarters has also sent three work teams to Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang …

JINAN, June 20 (ABC):Although the global supply chain has entered a new round of reconstruction, China is still an important investment destination for multinational companies around the world, said a report. The report was released by the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce at the third Qingdao Multinationals Summit in the coastal city …

BEIJING, June 20 (ABC): China’s national observatory on Monday renewed an orange alert for high temperatures, as heatwaves hit parts of the country. During daylight hours on Monday, parts of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Hubei are expected to reach temperatures of 35 to 36 degrees Celsius, the National Meteorological Center said. …

CHENGDU, June 20 (ABC): Archaeologists have found more than 1,100 tombs dating back to the late Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.-1046 B.C.) and the early Western Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-25 A.D.) in Yanyuan County, southwest China’s Sichuan Province. Over 5,000 artifacts including pottery, bronzeware, ironware, goldware, and silverware have been unearthed from the Laolongtou ruins site since an excavation launched in …

BEIJING, June 20 (ABC): A high-speed rail linking Beijing with Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei Province, starts normal operation at a speed of 350 km/h on Monday, said the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. With train speed raised from 310 km/h to 350 km/h, the overall transportation capacity of the section is expected to increase by 7 …

FUZHOU, June 20 (ABC): East China’s Fujian Province has evacuated nearly 220,000 people for torrential rain and rain-induced floods starting early this month. Waterlogging, landslides, house damage and other disaster situations have been found in some regions of the province. The maximum hourly rainfall was reported to reach 78.6 mm in Youyang Township of Xianyou County.  Fire rescue and forest …

SHANGHAI, June 20(ABC): China has carried out a land-based missile interception test that “achieved its expected purpose”, the Defence Ministry said, describing it as defensive and not aimed at any country. China has been ramping up research into all sorts of missiles, from those that can destroy satellites in space to advanced nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, as part of an ambitious …

BEIJING, June 19 (ABC): President Xi Jinping has led resolute combat against desertification, with “a historic change” made amid the country’s passionate exploring for ways to curb the expansion of deserts. More than half of China’s manageable desertification land has been restored over the past decade, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) said on Friday, the World Day to …

KUNMING, June 19 (ABC): Southwest China’s Yunnan Province has launched a month-long shopping festival starting Saturday to stimulate consumption and promote economic recovery. Governments and financial institutions in Yunnan will issue more than 8 million coupons of various types during the coming month. Li Chenyang, director of Yunnan provincial department of commerce, said the vitality of the trade sector is …

BEIJING, June 19 (ABC): China’s raw coal output sustained steady growth in May as policy measures to ensure energy supply and stabilize prices have taken effect, official data showed. The output rose 10.3 percent year on year to 370 million tonnes last month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The growth rate was 0.4 percentage points lower than that …

BEIJING, June 19 (ABC): All metro stations in Beijing that were closed due to epidemic prevention and control resumed operation on Sunday, according to the municipal transport commission. The bus services that were earlier halted in Fengtai District have also resumed operation, according to Beijing Public Transport Group. More bus services will resume operation as the epidemic wanes. Beijing has …

HONG KONG, June 19 (ABC): Despite challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and external uncertainties, Hong Kong remains a leading financial center in the world, with fresh opportunities ahead to lift its global status. Hong Kong secured a third place in the latest Global Financial Centers Index, remaining among the top in areas including business environment, human capital, infrastructure …

BEIJING, June 19 (ABC): Assets of China’s financial institutions rose 8.7 percent year on year to 396.39 trillion yuan (about 59.23 trillion U.S. dollars) by the end of the first quarter of this year, central bank data showed. Specifically, the combined assets of the country’s banking sector grew 8.6 percent year on year to 357.9 trillion yuan while that of …

BEIJING, June 18 (ABC): China’s automobile exports surged 73 percent month on month in May, hitting a record high for 2022, industry data showed. Last month, the country exported about 245,000 automobiles, soaring 62.3 percent from the same period of 2021, said the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. In breakdown, approximately 196,000 passenger cars were sold overseas in the period, …

BEIJING, June 18 (ABC): Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, urged coordinated improvement to guarantee that officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to engage in corruption. Xi demanded a full victory in the anti-corruption campaign on Friday while addressing a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC …

BEIJING, Jun 18 (ABC): The opening ceremony of the 17th Zhejiang Landscape Tourism Festival and the 16th Yunhe terrace ploughing festival was held in YunheCounty, Zhejiang Province with activities include offering sacrifices to the holy land, rewarding farm cattle and singing folk songs. As a local traditional folk custom activity launched every year in season of ‘The Grain in Ear’ …

SHANGHAI, June 18 (ABC): Huge clouds of black smoke billowed over Shanghai from multiple fires at a chemical plant Saturday that left at least one dead, according to state media and eyewitness video obtained by an agency. The fire at a Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. plant in outlying Jinshan district broke out around 4:00 am, but was brought under control …

BEIJING, Jun 18 (ABC): China has established the world’s largest monitoring network for disease and health risk factors, the National Health Commission said Friday. Noting China has improved its disease prevention and control system over the past 10 years, the commission said the country has seen a significant drop in the infection and death rate of many diseases. The fight …

BEIJING, Jun 18 (ABC): China’s electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, recorded stable growth in the first five months, official data has shown. Total power use went up 2.5 percent year on year in the January-May period to 3.35 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), according to the National Energy Administration. Power consumed by the primary industry increased by 9.8 percent …

BEIJING, Jun 18 (ABC): China has restored over half of its manageable desertified land over the past decade, making great strides in addressing desertification, according to the country’s forestry authority. In total, 18.8 million hectares of desertified land have been harnessed and 1.77 million hectares have been sealed off for protection over the past decade, according to the National Forestry …

BEIJING, June 17 (ABC): China plans to build eight new national atmosphere background watch stations by the end of 2025 to strengthen greenhouse gas observation, according to the country’s meteorological authority. The stations are set up to monitor dozens of elements, including greenhouse gases, reactive gas ozone, aerosols and solar radiation. Scientists usually select station sites far away from human …

BEIJING, June 17 (ABC): Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng Thursday called for thorough reasoning and well-informed decision-making to advance the construction of China’s major projects. Han, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while chairing a symposium at the China International Engineering Consulting Corporation (CIECC). …

BEIJING, June 17 (ABC): China is confident to keep its foreign trade running within a reasonable range for the whole year, making more contributions to the economic fundamentals, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. The country’s total imports and exports went up 9.6 percent year on year last month on top of April’s 0.1-percent expansion, gaining recovery momentum. “The …

BEIJING, June 17 (ABC): Chinese President Xi Jinping will host the 14th BRICS Summit in Beijing on June 23, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced here Friday. Spokesperson Hua Chunying said the Summit will be held in virtual format under the theme of “Foster High-quality BRICS Partnership, Usher in a New Era for Global Development.” Hua said President Xi will …

BEIJING, June 17 (ABC): China’s national observatory on Friday renewed a yellow alert for high temperatures, as heatwaves hit parts of the country. During daylight hours on Friday, parts of Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, and Xinjiang are expected to see temperatures of 37 to 40 degrees Celsius, the National Meteorological Center said. Temperatures …

SHANGHAI, June 17 (ABC): China on Friday launched its third aircraft carrier, the first designed and built entirely in the country, marking a major military advance for the Asian superpower. The announcement comes as tensions between China and the United States have ramped up significantly in recent weeks over Beijing’s sabre-rattling towards self-ruled Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway …

BEIJING, June 17(ABC): President Xi Jinping on Wednesday assured Vladimir Putin of China s support on Russian “sovereignty and security” — leading Washington to warn Beijing it risked ending up “on the wrong side of history”. China has refused to condemn Moscow s massive military assault on Ukraine and has been accused of providing diplomatic cover for Russia by blasting Western …

URUMQI, June 16 (ABC): The China-Central Asia Gas Pipeline has delivered more than 400 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China over a period of more than 12 years, according to PipeChina West Pipeline Company.    The pipeline helped replace the use of 532 million tonnes of coal during this period, equivalent to the reduction of 8.8 million tonnes …

BEIJING, June 16 (ABC): China’s service outsourcing industry notched a steady expansion during the January-May period, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed. Chinese firms inked service outsourcing contracts worth about 726.6 billion yuan (about 108.29 billion U.S. dollars) in the first five months, up 11.9 percent year on year. The executed contract value came in at 466.3 billion yuan …

BEIJING, Jun 16 (ABC): China’s stamp tax revenue rose 13.7 percent year on year to 216.5 billion yuan (about 32.27 billion U.S. dollars) in the first five months of this year, official data showed on Thursday. During this period, stock trading stamp tax revenue went up 15 percent from a year ago to 141.3 billion yuan, according to the Ministry …

BEIJING, Jun 16 (ABC): China is accelerating the revision of the industry catalog that encourages foreign investment, as part of efforts to expand high-level opening-up, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Thursday. The MOC and the National Development and Reform Commission are coordinating with other government departments to expand the catalog, with a focus on manufacturing and productive services …

BEIJING, Jun 16 (ABC): China’s fiscal revenue declined 10.1% during the first five months of this year, compared to the same period of last year, according to the Finance Ministry, the country’s state-owned news agency Xinhua reported Thursday. The fiscal revenue totaled around 8.67 trillion yuan ($1.29 trillion) in the January-March period of 2022. The central and local governments amassed …

DAR ES SALAAM, June 16 (ABC):  A prompt reply by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, to a letter from all participants of the Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa Leading Cadres Workshop 2022 is an inspiration to southern African youth cadres. Nawanda Yahya, head of the participants from Tanzania, said that being …