Song Zengguang at a ceremony to receive the Shanghai May 1 Labor Medal last month. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) When Song Zengguang first arrived in Shanghai six years ago, all he wanted was to be with his wife and earn a decent living as a delivery rider. However, last year he was awarded the […]
China is emerging as an international center for education and research, with Beijing set to become one of the world's leading hubs for frontier scientific research by 2035, officials and experts said. The capital will devote more planning and resources to cutting-edge fields including quantum information technology, artificial intelligence, health sciences and integrated circuit manufacturing, […]
GENEVA – Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda on multilateralism on Monday was "historic" and came at a crucial point "in the history of humankind," said Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the WEF. "The speech of President Xi Jinping was historic. Four […]
Residents are about to go to the COVID-19 quarantine center with their dogs in the Ronghui residential compound in Daxing's Tiangongyuan subdistrict, Beijing, Jan 25, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Legal experts have lauded moves by some cities to hide sensitive personal information about people with COVID-19, including their surnames and ages, seeing it as a […]
In this May 5, 2018 photo, an exhibition on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' masterpiece The Communist Manifesto is held at Fudan University in Shanghai. (PHOTO / VCG) Shooting began recently on Wang Dao, a film based on the story of Chen Wangdao, the translator and scholar who completed China's first translation of The Communist […]
Seeking self-reliance in science and technology does not mean that China is decoupling from the world. Rather, this is to reduce its overreliance on imports of key technologies and to make a greater contribution to tackling shared issues ranging from climate change to public health, an expert said. This undated photo shows Xue Lan, dean […]
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 […]
