Chinese President Xi Jinping learns about the education and training of soldiers and officers during a visit to Guizhou on Feb 4 2021. (LI GANG / XINHUA) GUIYANG – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday inspected an aviation division of the Air Force stationed in southwestern Guizhou Province ahead of the Spring Festival, or the […]
In this Feb 8, 2018 file photo, African Union chief Moussa Faki Mahamat (left) shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi before their meeting in Beijing. (GREG BAKER / POOL / AFP) BEIJING – Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday sent a congratulatory message to Moussa Faki Mahamat on his […]
HANGZHOU – Xu Xiaohua, a farmer from Zhuma Township in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang province, carefully pruned the frost-damaged camellia branches in his garden without disturbing the buds. Xu is among many other farmers in the region who has ridden the wave of the floral industry's success, particularly represented by camellias. The industry generated over […]
This photo taken on Aug 27, 2019 shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Southwest China's Guizhou province. (PHOTO / XINHUA) GUIYANG – Li Di never doubts China's FAST will provide faster access to epoch-making discoveries for human beings. "Unexpected discoveries will be made with the help of some equipment that has achieved […]
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks as German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on after a German-French Security Council video conference, Feb 5, 2021 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (THIBAULT CAMUS/POOL/AP) PARIS – The European Union (EU) should maintain its strategic autonomy and has its own policy towards China, said French President Emmanuel Macron and German […]
A Sinovac employee holds the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine in his hands at the company's lab in Beijing, Dec 25, 2020. (XINHUA) BEIJING – Sinovac Biotech said on Saturday that its unit’s COVID-19 vaccine has been formally approved for use by the general public by China’s medical products regulator. It marks the second COVID-19 vaccine green-lighted […]
This combo photo shows Yang Jiechi (left), a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (PHOTO / XINHUA / AFP) BEIJING – Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi on Saturday held a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The […]
Vladimir G. Dedkov, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaves the Hilton Wuhan Optics Valley Hotel where the team is currently based post-quarantine in Wuhan on Jan 29, 2021. (HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP） MOSCOW – Wuhan's Huanan seafood market may have made it possible for […]
US President Joe Biden makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Feb 5, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP) US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the United States is ready to work with China when it is in its interests to do so, […]
The logo of CGTN Europe is pictured on a sign outside an office block that houses the offices of China Global Television Network, in Chiswick Park, west London on Feb 4, 2021. (TOLGA AKMEN/AFP) China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged the United Kingdom to reconsider the revocation of broadcast rights for China Global Television […]
BEIJING – China hopes the United States will view China and China-US relations in an objective and rational way, implement positive and constructive China policies, meet China halfway, focus on cooperation, and manage differences to promote the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Friday. By cooperating with each […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks to villagers who are participating in festive activities, and extends his New Year's greetings to people of all ethnic groups across the country, on a public square of Huawu Village, Xinren Miao […]
BEIJING – The Information Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged stern representations with the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) Beijing office over its COVID-19-related fake news, according to a statement released on the ministry's website on Thursday. According to the statement, the fake news was aired on the BBC on Jan 29. […]
Then US Secretary of State John Kerry (center) speaks with China's special representative on climate change Xie Zhenhua (right) and Chinese officials at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on Dec12, 2015. (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) WASHINGTON – US climate envoy John Kerry said on Thursday he expected to speak to […]
Students from China pose for photos after graduating from a business studies course at the University of Sydney in Oct 2017. (WILLIAM WEST / CHINA DAILY) The Ministry of Education issued an official warning against studying in Australia on Friday, citing multiple assaults against Chinese students recently. The ministry issued a similar warning against studying in Australia […]
This undated photo shows the logo for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. (Photo / Xinhua) The politicization of sport by individual anti-China politicians in the United States goes against the spirit of the Olympic Charter, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Thursday. Wang made the remark after a group of US senators introduced […]
Parents trying to secure a spot for their children in the Cambridge English exams have compared the process to getting tickets for the traditional Spring Festival travel rush－involving the setting of alarm clocks, rehearsals, acquiring access to a fast internet connection and team work. To make sure their children are not left behind by their […]
Premier Li Keqiang delivers a speech via video link at the "Icebreakers" 2021 Chinese New Year Online Celebration, held by the 48 Group Club, the China Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the China-Britain Business Council in Beijing on Feb 3, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) China and the United Kingdom should adhere firmly to […]
A combined photo of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic (left) and Paralympic torch design. (PHOTO / SINA WEIBO ACCOUNT OF BEIJING 2022 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES) BEIJING – Beijing will light the Olympic flame for a second time with a blazing ribbon after organizers unveiled an ethereal yet dynamic torch design to mark the one-year countdown […]
WASHINGTON/BEIJING – China has been closely following a US warship's transit through the Taiwan Straits, and hopes the US side will play a constructive role for regional peace and stability, rather than the opposite, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. The USS John S. McCain sailed through the Taiwan Straits earlier in the day, […]
