An undated photo shows an elderly woman dining at a nursing home in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. (SUN YIDOU / CHINA DAILY) China's top court called for nursing homes to strengthen management and safety protection measures to give stronger protection to elderly people. In a case disclosed by the Supreme People's Court on Wednesday, […]
A grand gathering is held to mark China's accomplishments in poverty alleviation and honor its model poverty fighters at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 25, 2021. (YIN BOGU / XINHUA) BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Thursday that China has scored a "complete victory" in its […]
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian address the media in a press briefing on Feb 24, 2020. (PHOTO/CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY) BEIJING – China hopes that the United States can abandon the zero-sum game mindset, view China and China-US relations in an objective and rational manner, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the comments […]
A view of the Corner Tower at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Sept 3, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – China has announced new targets for tackling air pollution over the next five years, an environmental official said Thursday. The country vowed to reduce the average PM2.5 density by 10 percent in 337 major […]
An employee shows the CoronaVac made by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd in Daxing district of Beijing on Dec 23, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian on Thursday said dozens of countries have approved the emergency use of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines, and China will continue to promote the equitable global distribution […]
People visit Yuyuan Garden, a historical tourist site in Shanghai, on Feb 6, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – A total of 256 million domestic tourist trips were made during China's weeklong Spring Festival holiday ending on Feb 17, up 15.7 percent year on year, said the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Thursday. ALSO […]
Editor's Note: China Daily is publishing a series of stories focusing on major issues expected to be discussed at the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, known as the two sessions, the biggest annual political event in China, which starts next week. Some […]
A Sinovac employee holds a COVID-19 inactivated vaccine in his hands at the company's lab in Beijing, Dec 25, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA) When Wu Guizhen and her colleagues at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing received their first sample of an unknown virus on Jan 2, 2020, they rushed to […]
Maintenance workers move three oriental white stork fledglings to a safer place in 2016. (PHOTO / CHINA DAILY) In the 1980s, Zheng Qingsong was a maintenance worker on power lines in Huangshi, Hubei province, and removed dozens of bird's nests from transmission towers every day to guarantee the safe operation of the electricity grid. However, […]
Women wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus ride an escalator at a subway station in Beijing, capital of China, on Feb 24, 2021. (ANDY WONG / AP) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the National Health Commission said Thursday. Seven new cases […]
A health worker handles a vial of the Sinopharm Group Co. COVID-19 vaccine in the Adult Vaccination Center at the Dow University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, on Feb 3, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) BEIJING – A unit of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) and CanSino Biologics Inc (CanSinoBIO) have applied for public use of their […]
This photo taken on Jan 7, 2021 shows a police patrol walking at an empty railway station as the city cuts outside transport links and bans residents from leaving. (STR / CNS / AFP) BEIJING – China has unveiled plans to build the country's strength in the transport sector over the next 15 years, setting […]
This photo shows delegates attending the 44th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council at the UN's European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 30, 2020. (DENIS BALIBOUSE / POOL / AFP) BEIJING – China firmly rejects the unacceptable accusations made by the UK, which has abused the platform of the UN Human Rights Council […]
This undated file photo shows an illustration of Tianwen 1 probe entering Martian orbit. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) BEIJING – China's Tianwen 1 probe on Wednesday entered Mars parking orbit after performing an orbital maneuver, according to the China National Space Administration. ALSO READ: China releases video of Tianwen 1's entry into Mars orbit At […]
Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the WHO-China joint study team, answers questions at the WHO-China joint study press conference in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, Feb 9, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – A team of experts led by the World Health Organization (WHO) finished their field study earlier this month in the central […]
PLA Navy sailors stand on destroyer Xining at a port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Aug 29, 2019. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – Naval forces of China and Singapore are scheduled to conduct a joint drill in waters near Singapore on Wednesday, according to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy. Joint operations of […]
People pray during a celebration of the Lunar New Year at a temple in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, on Feb 12, 2021. The celebration marks the Year of the Ox in the Chinese lunar calendar. (FIRDIA LISNAWATI / AP) Dressed in traditional Chinese attire, Indonesian President Joko Widodo made a statement in his appearance at a […]
Thea Kolsen Fischer (left) of a World Health Organization COVID-19 origin-tracing team arrives at the VIP terminal of the airport in Wuhan, China, on Feb 10, 2021 after the conclusion of the WHO mission. (NG HAN GUAN / AP) COPENHAGEN – A Danish professor on a World Health Organization team on the COVID-19 origin-tracing mission […]
This photograph taken on Sept 18, 2020 shows a general view on the opening of a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) GENEVA – The Chinese mission to the United Nations (UN) at Geneva on Monday refuted the erroneous remarks related to China by British Foreign Secretary […]
LANZHOU－"Is everybody OK?" Gao Zuowang asked as he began his livestreaming show in clumsy but enthusiastic English ahead of this year's Spring Festival. The former Party secretary of Yuanjiawan in Gansu province, Gao was hosting an online promotional event featuring the village's new specialty－a soil-filled "blind box" with local agricultural products inside. Blind boxes, mostly […]
