PREMIER Li Keqiang arrived yesterday for an official visit to the Philippines and a series of leaders’ meetings on East Asian cooperation.
2017-11-13
U.S. first lady Melania Trump on Thursday morning visited Banchang Elementary School in Beijing, accompanied by Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
2017-11-10
CHINA’S railway department will kick off a new service to speed up goods delivery to satisfy the growing demand for logistics services during the upcoming Singles Day online shopping frenzy.
2017-11-08
CHINA launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into space via a single carrier rocket to support its global navigation and positioning network at 7:45 p.m. Sunday.
2017-11-07
THE Shenzhen-based telecommunications giant Tencent summoned its annual conference, the WE Summit, in Beijing on Sunday, attracting the world’s top scientists, including Stephen Hawking, and thousands of audience members.
CHINA has built more than 800,000 highway bridges, and over 10,000 km of high-speed railway bridges, state transport authorities said yesterday.
2017-11-06
THE Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, closed its bimonthly session Saturday, adopting a new law on public libraries, revisions to several laws, and decisions on reforms such as incorporating existing supervisory, corruption prevention and control agencies within the governments and procuratorates into new supervisory commissions.
CHINESE archaeologists have found a large amount of carbonized rice grains in caves dating from the New Stone Age, challenging the conventional view that cave dwellers were solely hunter gathers and did not cultivate land for food.
POLICE in East China’s Jiangsu Province have caught a gang making and selling guns, and seized 180 guns, they said Thursday.
2017-11-03
CHINESE lawmakers have called for prompt action to control hazardous waste which they believe has become a serious problem.
CHINA has channeled more work into improving the air quality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area by replacing dirtier coal use and penalizing polluters in its latest efforts to lower the intensity of smog this winter.
2017-11-02
IN response to a piece of news about stop-skipping released Monday, Shenzhen Metro Group said that stop-skipping will not be carried out soon or on a certain day and the probability is very small, so passengers should not panic, sznews.com reported Tuesday.
THE latest draft law on e-commerce, submitted for the second reading yesterday, further clarifies the liabilities of e-commerce operators and punishments over the infringement of consumer rights.
2017-11-01
RIDERS taking taxis in Hong Kong urban areas and New Territories can use the Alipay app to pay their fares, according to an announcement by Ant Financial Services Group, an Alibaba affiliate, Monday.
CHINA yesterday said it hoped that the Republic of Korea (ROK) would fulfill its commitment not to increase deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system.
2017-10-31
CHINA will extend its current corruption supervision pilot program to cover the entire nation in the next few months, in a bid to further “integrate resources” in the fight against corruption.
THE Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Thursday promised to improve the system of CPC-led multiparty cooperation and political consultation.
2017-10-27
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday congratulated President Xi Jinping on being re-elected the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
The following is the list of the Political Bureau members of the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee (listed in the order of the number of strokes in their surnames.
2017-10-26
THE Communist Party of China (CPC) unveiled a new leadership line-up yesterday to lead the world’s most populous nation toward a great modern socialist country.