Passengers wait for trains at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai on Jan 3, 2021. (YIN LIQIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE) BEIJING – China has allocated 104 billion yuan (about US$16 billion) from its central budget to fund basic living allowances for needy people ahead of the upcoming Spring Festival, an official said on Monday. […]
President Xi Jinping delivers a special speech at the virtual Davos Agenda event of the World Economic Forum in Beijing on Monday, Jan 25, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday expounded on China's stance over how to improve multilateralism against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and world economic recession, […]
People line up to get tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Beijing on January 22, 2021, part of a drive to test two million people in 48 hours as the city rushes to snuff out a new local cluster of cases believed to be linked to a more contagious virus variant. (NOEL CELIS / AFP) […]
A member of the Turkish Health Ministry's vaccination team administers a dose of the CoronaVac vaccine, produced by China's Sinovac Biotech, to an 89-year-old Turkish woman in Ayas, Ankara province, Turkey, on Thursday. (TURKISH HEALTH MINISTRY / AP) While Western countries invest enormous capital in developing vaccines to fight the increasing number of confirmed COVID-19 […]
Measures to harness innovation will give steam to driving forces of growth File photo shows a visitor has her blood pressure measured by a smart sphygmomanometer during an "Internet plus healthcare" exhibition of the ongoing fourth China-Arab States Expo in Yinchuan, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region. (PHOTO / XINHUA) New forms of consumption will […]
A medical worker administers a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine to a man at a temporary vaccination site in Daxing district of Beijing, Jan 23, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Seniors have been excluded from the initial stages of China's COVID-19 vaccination program for several reasons, including ongoing trials and the way the inoculations will be […]
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, addresses the fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in Beijing, on Jan 22, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The discipline inspection and supervision system will be better integrated […]
Zhang Hongchun, a traditional Chinese medicine specialist based in Beijing, inspects a COVID-19 patient at a hospital in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, this month. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) When Zhang Hongchun arrived in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on Jan 12, the streets were eerily empty amid a sweeping stay-at-home order due to a spike in COVID-19 […]
In 1963, when Cheng Xiangwen was assigned to work as a seed cultivation technician at a farm in Henan province's Xunxian county, corn production in the area was just above 750 kilograms per hectare. Even though the farmers worked hard, they could not harvest enough corn, a food staple, to feed their families due to […]
A trapped miner is lifted from a gold mine in Qixia City, east China's Shandong province, on Jan 24, 2021. (CHEN HAO / XINHUA) JINAN – Eleven miners were rescued on Sunday after being trapped underground for two weeks due to a blast in a gold mine in east China's Shandong province. Rescuers lifted two […]
People wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus walk at a pedestrian shopping street in Beijing, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN / AP) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 80 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 65 locally transmitted ones and 15 arriving from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission […]
HONG KONG – The Chinese Embassy in the United States on Saturday refuted a media report that said Beijing was pushing for a high-level meeting to ease tensions with the US. It is hoped that the media outlet carrying this report will respect the facts and cover China-US relations in an objective and responsible way. Chinese Embassy […]
A medical worker collects a swab sample from a child at a COVID-19 testing site in Qiaoxi district of Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei province, Jan 20, 2021. (MU YU / XINHUA) SHIJIAZHUANG – Shijiazhuang, a megacity in north China's Hebei province, completed three rounds of citywide nucleic acid testing in 17 days to […]
A medical worker (center) disinfects medical waste at a testing site in Xicheng district, Beijing, capital of China, Jan 22, 2021. (REN CHAO / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Friday reported 107 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 90 locally transmitted cases and 17 arriving from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) meets with President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadera at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept 6, 2018. (YAN YAN / XINHUA) BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday sent a congratulatory message to Faustin-Archange Touadera on his re-election as president of […]
Premier Li Keqiang (center), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presides over a symposium attended by experts, scholars and entrepreneurs in Beijing, Jan 21, 2021. The symposium solicited opinions on a draft government work report and the draft 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their talks in Beijing, capital of China, July 2, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] HONG KONG – Chinese President Xi Jinping and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been awarded the title of “Man of the Year 2020” by Pakistan Observer based in […]
BEIJING – China's decision to impose sanctions on relevant US individuals was entirely justified and necessary, and fully demonstrated Chinese government's firm resolution to safeguard the national interests, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Friday. Hua made the remarks at a daily news briefing in response to remarks by Michael McCaul, a ranking member […]
BEIJING – The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, concluded its 25th session Friday in Beijing. Lawmakers adopted the revised Law on Animal Epidemic Prevention, the revised Administrative Penalty Law and the coast guard law at the closing meeting. President Xi Jinping signed presidential orders to promulgate the Law […]
A man wearing a face mask walks along the waterfront as city's skyline lights up in the background, in Macao, on Jan 30, 2020. (PHILIP FONG / AFP) HONG KONG – The Macao Special Administrative Region reported its first coronavirus case since June Friday. The 43-year-old woman is the SAR's 47th recorded patient. The last […]
