Strong leadership critical in winning COVID fight

Peter Morgan (right), associate dean of the Business School of the University of Nottingham Ningbo, answers questions from the audience at the Vision China event, which was organized by China Daily, in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. (WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY) The Communist Party of China has played an incredible role in leading the […]

100th anniversary an event ‘worth celebrating’

Erik Nilsson, a senior journalist at China Daily, gives his speech at the Vision China event in Jiaxing, East China's Zhejiang province, on June 20, 2021. (WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY) China's achievements under the Communist Party of China are worth celebrating as the country commemorates the 100th anniversary of the CPC's founding and beyond, […]

China administers 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses

A medical worker administers a dose of the recombinant COVID-19 vaccine (adenovirus type 5 vector) which requires only one shot to a resident at a temporary vaccination site in Haidian District of Beijing, capital of China, May 20, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – More than 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in China […]

Mainland sees 23 new COVID-19 cases, all imported

People travel on the subway in Beijing on June 17, 2021. (NOEL CELIS / AFP) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 23 imported COVID-19 cases but no new locally transmitted cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. Among the imported cases, 12 were reported in Guangdong, four in […]

Chinese astronauts arrange new ‘home’ in space

Astronauts enter the core module of China's space station from the Shenzhou XII spacecraft on June 17, 2021. The crew have started to prepare their orbiting residence for operations for the next three months. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Astronauts on board the core module of China's space station have started to prepare their orbiting residence for […]

Xi lauds UN chief on his reelection

President Xi Jinping meets with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Beijing, capital of China, on April 8, 2018. (PHOTO / XINHUA) President Xi Jinping sent a message to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres congratulating his election for a second five-year term on Friday. In his message, Xi said that as the most universal, representative and […]

Guangdong sees 6 new local cases, adds new virus risk area

Residents line up for a nucleic acid test in Liwan district, Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, June 8, 2021. (XINHUA) BEIJING – The city of Dongguan in south China's Guangdong province on Saturday added a medium-risk area for COVID-19 outbreak on Saturday as the province reported a total of six locally transmitted cases. Dongguan has […]

J-20 stealth fighters join pioneering air force unit

An undated file photo shows a J-20 stealth fighter. (XINHUA) HARBIN – China's J-20 stealth fighters have been commissioned to a pioneering unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force, it was announced in a themed event on Friday. READ MORE: J-20 fighter takes part in first combat exercises Celebrated for its rich revolutionary […]

China-made test kits big hit in Europe

Jack Parrock, a correspondent at Euronews, tweeted on June 11, 2021 a picture of the packaging of a COVID-19 antigen test kit that all participants at the event were required to use on a daily basis. (SCREENSHOT OF JACK PARROCK's TWEET) China's COVID-19 test kits have played an indispensable role in bolstering mass testing and […]

Xi: Learn from Party’s rich history

President Xi Jinping (center), who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, leads senior Party officials in repeating their oath of joining the Party after inspecting an exhibition on the Party's history in Beijing on June 18, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Xi Jinping, […]

Mainland reports 1 new local COVID-19 case

People wait to take COVID-19 nucleic acid tests in Liwan district of Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, June 8, 2021. (DENG HUA / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported one new locally transmitted COVID-19 case in Guangdong province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday. Also  reported were 22 […]

Chinese, Indian workers among 11 killed in Nepal floods

This general view shows houses submerged in flood waters in Sindhupalchok, some 70 km northeast of Kathmandu on June 16, 2021, after heavy monsoon rains caused the overflowing of the Melamchi River. (PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) KATHMANDU – Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy rain across Nepal this week killed 11 people including one […]

China’s new manned space vehicle planned

Astronauts Nie Haisheng (right), Liu Boming, center, and Tang Hongbo wave during a ceremony before the launch of the Shenzhou XII manned space mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China. (PHOTO / FOR CHINA DAILY) While Shenzhou-series spacecraft still serve as a major pillar of China's manned spaceflights, Chinese engineers are developing […]

Noted translator Xu Yuanchong dies at 100

Xu Yuanchong participates in the TV program Readers. (PHOTO / CCTV) From hill to hill no bird in flight From path to path no man in sight. A lonely fisherman afloat Is fishing snow in lonely boat. Fishing in Snow by Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet Liu Zongyuan The translator of those classic lines, renowned Peking […]

Successful program ignited by modest spark of an idea

This photo taken on June 17, 2021 at Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center shows China's Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship docking with the front docking port of the space station core module Tianhe, forming a three-module complex with the cargo craft Tianzhou 2. (PHOTO / XINHUA) It was in August 1958 that Chinese scientists started to float […]

Eight detained over fatal gas explosion in central China

Rescuers and sniffer dogs work at the gas explosion site in Zhangwan district in Shiyan city, Central China's Hubei province, June 13, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) WUHAN – Eight suspects have been detained in connection with a gas explosion that killed 25 in central China's Hubei province, authorities said Friday. The general manager of the […]

Officials, envoys hail role of Shanghai in opening-up

This undated photo shows a morning view of the Huangpu River in Shanghai. (CHEN ZHONGQIU / CHINA DAILY) Zheng Haiao, deputy director of the Policy Research Bureau at the Management Committee of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, described his job as something like a "woodpecker". By working out measures for reform and innovation, Zheng […]

China refutes accusation of COVID-19 leak from Wuhan lab

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian speaks at a press briefing in Beijing, China, on March 17, 2021. (PHOTO / FMPRC.GOV.CN) BEIJING – The first identification of the gene sequence of COVID-19 by Chinese scientists does not mean that Wuhan is the source of the coronavirus, nor can it be inferred that the virus was […]