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A Chinese iron and steel industry's Environmental Product Declaration program was officially launched on Thursday in Beijing to bring prime enterprises and organizations along the steel industrial chain together to promote the green, healthy and susta...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences will launch a two-day online display of its advanced experiments and research facilities at the upcoming 18th Public Science Day, to offer the science-savvy audience an opportunity to engage with China's latest sci-tech...

Amid high inflation, removal of additional US tariffs on China is in the fundamental interests of US consumers and businesses, and is beneficial to the United States, China and the world, Shu Jueting, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Commerce, said on Thurs...

The safe-guard lines around the Wukang Building, a 98-year-old landmark in Shanghai, were removed on Thursday, prompting locals to visit this scenic spot once again....

The daily average parcel collection and delivery volume in Shanghai has reached more than 4.6 million, one-fifth of usual levels, said Feng Lihu, director of the Shanghai Postal Administration, at a press briefing on Thursday....

What was school life like in China's Xinjiang in ancient times? A document unearthed in 1969 in Astana ancient cemetery in Turpan, eastern Xinjiang, offers an intriguing glimpse....

An Airbus 320 aircraft of Chengdu Airlines landed at the Dazhou Jinya Airport Thursday, marking the launch of the new airport in the mountainous city of Dazhou, Southwest China's Sichuan province....

A team of Chinese scientists along with their international counterparts have designed a robotic drone capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces....

China's financial hub Shanghai has managed to keep its financial operations stable despite the recent resurgence of COVID-19....

China's local governments have issued over 1.69 trillion yuan (about $250.66 billion) worth of bonds in the first four months of this year, data from the Ministry of Finance showed on Wednesday....

North China's Hebei province witnessed trade growth with its major trading partners in the first four months of this year, according to Shijiazhuang Customs Wednesday....

The culture and tourism administration of Shanghai has introduced a new venue QR code and machine that can handle health code scanning, ID verification and temperature measurement to ensure public safety....

The world's first intelligent unmanned vehicle carrier — named Zhuhaiyun by Chen Dake, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences — was launched on Wednesday in Guangzhou, Guangdong province....

A study by Chinese researchers has found that the COVID-19 booster vaccination can markedly reduce the immune escape of the Omicron variant, underscoring the necessity for the eligible population to get a third booster jab to combat the pandemic....

The total output value of China's satellite navigation and location services industry reached 469 billion yuan (about $69.6 billion) in 2021, up 16.3 percent from the previous year, according to an industry white paper released on Wednesday....

German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG said the throughput of its distribution center in Shanghai has returned to 50 percent of its normal level under closed-loop management....

During the past decade, China has made continuous efforts to foster fiscal and taxation development, rolling out measures ranging from lowering enterprises' tax burdens, and deepening reforms of fiscal and tax systems to keep economic performance with...

China's central bank on Thursday conducted 10 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) of reverse repos to maintain liquidity in the banking system....

The comprehensive bonded area in Kashgar Prefecture, the only one of its kind in the southern part of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, posted robust trade growth in the first four months of 2022....

"Cultivate people through culture" -- President Xi Jinping has, on various occasions, quoted the idiom to emphasize the essential role of culture in nurturing people morally and intellectually....

Panchen Erdeni Chos-kyi rGyal-po on Wednesday attended religious activities in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital city of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region....

Shanghai will progressively resume public transportation services beginning on Sunday as the COVID-19 epidemic situation continues to stabilize, vice-mayor of Shanghai Zhang Wei said at a news briefing on Thursday....

Despite exposure to the real estate sector, listed banks in China reversed the rising trend of the overall nonperforming loan ratio by enhancing credit risk control and increasing efforts in write-offs and disposals of non-performing assets, said a report...

Beijing reported 50 new confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and five local asymptomatic cases on Wednesday, the Beijing municipal health commission said Thursday....

Berry Oncology, a leading Chinese company in genetic testing and early screening of tumors, plans to launch an early cancer screening product within the year that is capable in detecting six prevalent tumor types in China at one time, according to a senio...

President Xi Jinping has highlighted efforts to build up China's scientific and technological self-reliance and enhance cultural confidence....

"China and ASEAN are neighbors, and mutual assistance is our shared tradition." Read the highlights of President Xi Jinping's words about the relationship between China and ASEAN....

Angus Ng Hok-ming, chairman of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Association, said that the policy advantages and great opportunities of the Greater Bay Area have attracted more young people from Hong Kong. He hopes that the new adminis...

Chinese workers are busy with overseas orders for electronic products despite the COVID-19 pandemic in Meishan, Southwest China's Sichuan province....

China's installed capacity of renewable energy registered fast growth in the first four months of the year as the country strived to reach its carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals....

China will ramp up multiple policy supports, including cutting costs and increasing funding, to help small and medium-sized companies tide over difficulties, officials told a press conference on Wednesday....

The government will inject high-quality assets, such as profitable innovation and high-tech related businesses, into listed companies owned by centrally administered State-owned enterprises to further enrich the content of its Three-Year Action Plan (2020...

Richard Cullen, a law professor based in Hong Kong, spoke to China Daily about his confidence in Hong Kong remaining an international financial center. He hoped that the new administration, under the sixth-term chief executive, will make headway fixing th...

Membership stores that have targeted affluent urban consumers have kept their expansion plans this year as demand is on the surge for affordable and quality merchandise....

China has begun to assemble a new cargo spacecraft that will be tasked with servicing the Tiangong space station, according to a key figure in the space station program....

Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua on Wednesday called for continued efforts in collaboration and paired assistance between the eastern and western regions of the country....

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government said Wednesday that it will distribute about 170,000 sets of the COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits to people in some areas of the city as part of a follow-up on recent detection of the COVID-19 virus i...

As the first Nepali student in Peking University's undergraduate program, things were definitely intimidating for Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari at the beginning....

One black-necked crane, codenamed V021, has had quite the year....

Home prices in 70 designated cities in China reported slower or negative growth in April from a year ago, but industrial experts believe market stability remains achievable in the coming months as the current COVID-19 resurgence is being effectively conta...

At 8 o'clock one morning, Xie Feijun arrived at the China Post office at the foot of the Huangshan Mountains in Anhui province....

CHONGQINGConcentrating hard, Long Yingzhi carefully dips her calligraphy brush in starch paste and repairs the damaged pages of an ancient book using special paper as thin as a cicada's wing....

A tooth found in a cave in Laos that could be around 160,000-years-old has provided evidence that the archaic humans called Denisovans lived across a huge range stretching from Siberia, through China and into Southeast Asia....

Libraries have been bastions of knowledge for millennia, and little has changed during the ages in how they operate on a basic level....

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday approved a widely controversial plan to release Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water into the sea just as International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi arrived in the countr...

China's supervision of the platform economy will become normalized and predictable with more targeted efforts to guide companies into compliance, and will make the sector's healthy development a priority in the long term, said leading antitrust ex...

The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 191 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 82 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's report Thursday....

A total of 394 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday, the National Health Commission said in its Thursday report....