China says history will judge Trump administration

This undated file photo shows Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying. (PHOTO / WWW.FMPRC.GOV.CN) BEIJING – Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Wednesday that no matter how Mike Pompeo and his likes lie, deceive or spread hatred and confrontation, people will make the right judgment, and history will make a fair evaluation of the Trump […]

China’s cabinet discusses draft govt work report, 14th FYP

This undated photo shows Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – China's State Council on Wednesday convened a plenary meeting to discuss a draft government work report and the draft 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035. The two documents will be […]

China mulls codifying epidemic prevention, control experiences

China mulls codifying epidemic prevention, control experiences

BEIJING – Chinese lawmakers are considering codifying epidemic containment practices that proved effective in the fight against COVID-19 in amending the country's physicians law. A draft revision of the physicians law was presented Wednesday to the  25th session session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the first reading. The three-day session began […]

Xi stresses preparing for Beijing 2022 with perfection

President Xi Jinping inspects the National Ski Jumping Center in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei province, Jan 19, 2021. (JU PENG / XINHUA) BEIJING – President Xi Jinping has called for advancing preparation work for the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games against difficulties and with "greater perfection." ALSO READ: Xi confident of Games' success Xi, […]

Chinese vaccines set Asia on a roll against COVID-19

A doctor holds a vial of the Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac against COVID-19 as inoculation started in front of the Santo Antonio church in Mateus Leme, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on Jan 19, 2021. (DOUGLAS MAGNO / AFP) More Asian countries eager to jump-start their pandemic-ravaged economies are dosing up with Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines, with senior […]

Growing pomelos gives town’s farmers hope of golden future

Farmers harvest pomelos in Linfeng town, Chongqing. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Sun Xiulan carefully tended to her pomelo orchard after last month's harvest in Linfeng town, Chongqing, thankful for the 200,000 yuan (US$31,000) it earned her family. Farmers in the town, in the municipality's northeastern Changshou district, used to grow corn, sweet potato and […]

Chang’e 5 orbiter heads to new mission in space

Chang’e 5 orbiter heads to new mission in space

Following the successful conclusion of the historic Chang'e 5 lunar sample mission, a major section of the robotic probe has been given a new task deep in space. The Chang'e 5 orbiter is now flying toward Lagrange Point 1, which is located between the Earth and the sun, for extended scientific operations, said Pei Zhaoyu, […]

China’s top legislature starts standing committee session

China’s top legislature starts standing committee session

BEIJING – The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, started its 25th session Wednesday to review multiple draft laws and law revisions. The session's agenda includes reviewing draft revisions to the Law on Animal Epidemic Prevention and the Administrative Penalty Law, as well as draft amendments to the Law […]

Xi to address virtual Davos Agenda

Xi to address virtual Davos Agenda

President Xi Jinping's participation in the Davos Agenda event next week is expected to bring more confidence to the world economy ravaged by COVID-19, analysts said. Xi will make a special address at the five-day virtual Davos Agenda event of the World Economic Forum, which opens on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on […]

Opposing, deterring island’s separatist activities urged

Wang Yang (center), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), delivers a speech at a conference on Taiwan affairs in Beijing, capital of China. The conference was held during […]

Quarantine facility rooms ready today

A medical worker collects a throat swab from a resident in Longyao county, Xingtai, Hebei province on Jan 18, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Huangzhuang Apartments, a new, centralized quarantine facility being built in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, was to deliver 1,779 rooms by Wednesday, a top provincial official said on Tuesday. The decision […]

Beijing health code shows vaccinations

Reporters from home and abroad attend an opening event organized by the Shanghai municipal government at a COVID-19 vaccination center in the city's Jiading district. (GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY) A mobile-based app for checking health codes in Beijing has started to show users' COVID-19 vaccination status as the capital steps up its inoculation drive, […]

Ministry defends handling of initial stage of outbreak

Ministry defends handling of initial stage of outbreak

China defended on Tuesday its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it will continue to communicate and cooperate with the World Health Organization in curbing the virus. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remark after an independent panel for pandemic preparedness and response said that China could have applied public health measures more forcefully […]

Two trapped miners feeling sick, one unconscious

Machines work around the clock to drill holes from the surface to the trapped miners, hoping to provide alternative routes to get them out. (PHOTO / CHINA DAILY) A miner who has been trapped underground for more than a week at the Hushan gold mine in Qixia, a city in Yantai, Shandong province, hurt his […]

Guideline sets goals for wastewater use

Ships sail through a section of the Xiling Gorge, one of the Three Gorges along the Yangtze River, in Zigui county of Yichang, Central China's Hubei province, Nov 29, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA) China has issued a special guideline on wastewater utilization, vowing to ramp up efforts to tap the potential of reclaimed water to […]

Xi confident of Games’ success

President Xi Jinping (center) inspects the Taizicheng rail station, close to the competition venues and athletes' village of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province, Jan 19, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) President Xi Jinping has stressed the importance of enabling greater public participation in winter sports, saying he […]

Moscow ties with Beijing built on trust, Lavrov says

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia on Jan 18, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) Russia and China have built a trusting relationship, and together the two countries have the ability to counter foreign threats, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. "We really have a very close […]