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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....

Now into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy in the United States remains far from normal....

US gun manufacturing increased from 3.9 million units in 2000 to 11.3 million in 2020, as American gun buyers purchased firearms at a higher rate than ever, a federal report said....

While major trading venues and financial institutions have maintained operations with various digital solutions during the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai, offline services will return soon as the epidemic comes under better control, local industry i...

The infection clusters in Beijing continue to yield more cases, making up the bulk of the daily caseload....

Consumer protection organization Citizens Advice has said that...

More than 6,000 museums have been established across China, and Chinese museum operators are continuously endeavoring to innovate the experiences they provide for visitors, even with the sporadic and lingering impact of COVID-19....

An increasing number of Chinese cities have been performing regular nucleic acid testing among their residents to reinforce the defense against the spread of the Omicron variant, with novel approaches being taken including mixing up the testing variables ...

Three Thai restaurants in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, are facing the possibility of punishment for selling coconut milk in bottles that looked like laundry detergent containers....

As gallant Shanghai fights its way out of the Omicron outbreak, multinational exhibitors at the China International Import Expo have expressed hope they will be able to participate in the fifth edition of the trade fair in November....

More than 5 million shared bikes on the Chinese mainland are using positioning and navigation services enabled by the country's Beidou Navigation Satellite System, according to an industry insider....

The expansion of China's only seed bank for cold-region crops has been completed recently to raise its seed preservation capacity from 80,000 to 200,000 samples....

Customs authorities in five major cities in the Yangtze River Delta regionShanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Hefeihave adopted mutual recognition of each other's clearance processes for cargo related to companies on Shanghai's white list of b...

China recorded declines in the density of all major air pollutants apart from ozone in the first four months of this year, and forecasts show that the hazardous gas will remain a primary air pollutant in many areas across the country....

Built in 1897, Zhongshan Road in Qingdao, Shandong province, used to be one of the most bustling business areas in northern China, home to more than 140 stores, cafes, bars and hotels in its heyday. However, the glamour of the street, along with the entir...

Editor's note: China aims to peak its carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, major goals in a national green transition drive. This series looks at efforts in various sectors to meet the goals....

The Xiangyang East to Badong section of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway officially entered trial operation recently, marking the countdown to the opening of the whole line....

If you asked me to list three things that have benefited me most in my life so far, they would definitely be education, work and fitness....

US stocks plummeted on Wednesday as weak earnings from major retailers stoked concerns about the impact of inflation....

On May 9, the yoga gym where Zhong Shiyu works sent a notice to its members telling them that it was suspending offline classes because of a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Beijing....

Wang Zhen is overwhelmed that millions of people are watching her workout and weight-loss videos....

China's Shanghai reported 82 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 637 local asymptomatic cases on Wednesday, the municipal health commission said Thursday....

A Chinese drug for treating patients infected by the Omicron variant has shown good results in terms of drug safety, tolerability and effectiveness in reducing viral shedding, or the amount of time that infected cells release reproduced viruses....

Editor's Note: This series of stories looks at local enterprises in specialized sectors that have a share in global markets....

Editor's note: As the United States reaches 1 million COVID-19 deaths, this page looks at the devastating economic and societal effects of the pandemic....

Premier Li Keqiang pledged stronger support for the platform economy and the digital economy on Wednesday, including steps to help businesses get listed both in China and abroad, as part of broader steps to counter the downside pressure facing the economy...

Though recent outbreaks of COVID-19 have been pressuring small and medium-sized enterprises, China's economic fundamentals remain unchanged and more efforts will be made to bolster SMEs' ability to cope with short-term difficulties, an official sa...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that Finland and Sweden have officially applied for membership in the alliance, overhauling their decadeslong foreign policy....

China's accelerated push for building a national unified market will create broader development space for all players, including foreign businesses, signaling a key step to deepen market-oriented reforms and foster high-quality development, officials ...

The United States National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed with China's civil aviation authority that no investigation information regarding a crashed China Eastern Airline plane was provided to media, the Civil Aviation Administration of Ch...

Guangdong ranks first in terms of total GDP in the first quarter of this year, with GDP exceeding 2.8 trillion yuan ($416.3 billion) according to Askci.com, a market research and consulting provider....

A Chinese-English bilingual version of extracts from Xi Jinping's discourses on respecting and protecting human rights has been published by the Central Compilation and Translation Press....

Archaeologist Fan Jinshi's memories of the first time she shook hands with President Xi Jinping in 2013 are still vivid....

A senior Chinese diplomat warned Washington on Wednesday not to play the "Taiwan card", saying such a move now from the United States could create a perilous situation....

Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the conference of the 70th anniversary of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit via video link on Wednesday....

One passenger was killed and another seriously injured in a bus accident in Chongqing's Chengkou county on Wednesday, local authorities said....

Beijing will require all residents living and working in four districts and people in communities where COVID-19 cases have been reported during the past seven days to take three consecutive nucleic acid tests on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to curb the ...

Beijing reported 49 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 3 pm Wednesday, bringing the total number of infections since April 22 to 1,218. Fifteen districts are involved, according to Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing...

More than 5 million shared bikes on the Chinese mainland are using positioning and navigation services enabled by the country's Beidou Navigation Satellite System, according to an industry insider....