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A number of companies, including some State-owned enterprises, have been strongly warned about polluting emissions following recent surprise inspections from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment....

Some provinces and regions in China have relaxed age restrictions for candidates registering for civil servant examinations, sending a positive signal to middle-aged people who may be experiencing employment anxiety....

The Ministry of Education has launched a special campaign to boost employment for new college graduates during the spring recruitment season, according to a notice issued by the ministry on Tuesday....

China will maintain high pressure on malicious trademark registrations this year to strengthen intellectual property protection and serve high-quality development, officials from the country's top IP regulator said....

UAE-based carrier Emirates will further ramp up its operations in China to satisfy surging travel demand after China optimized its COVID-19 measures, aiming to resume flight capacity in China to the level seen in 2019 by the end of this year, the airline ...

China has released a guideline that provides a uniform set of ethical review standards for medical institutions, colleges and research institutions planning to conduct life sciences and medical research involving humans....

After a three-year push by the State Post Bureau to expand the nationwide delivery network to include even the most remote parts of the country, some 95 percent of Chinese villages now have access with the rest to follow, the bureau said recently....

The population of Yangtze finless porpoises has increased by 23 percent compared with 2017, according to a scientific expedition of Asia's longest river led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs last year....

SHENZHEN — At the 2023 Shenzhen Marathon in Guangdong province, 45-year-old Luo Shujian crossed the finish line pushing a special stroller in which his 13-year-old son Xiaobai, who has cerebral palsy, was sitting wearing a helmet....

With spring approaching, Victor Lo, a young man from Hong Kong, starts work at 5 am every day on his farm on the mainland....

KUNMING — Tim Chivorn's graduation project is a manifestation of his dreams — a miniature model of a hydropower station designed to operate in the mountainous region of Battambang in western Cambodia that he hopes will solve electricity sh...

The evolution of consumption in China has created both great opportunities and challenges for time-honored — or heritage — brands, which are known as laozihao in Chinese....

Prospects for easing tensions between Israel and Palestine following a security summit of the two sides with Jordan, Egypt, and the United States have been dampened by settlers' attacks in the occupied West Bank and remarks by Israeli officials....

British passport holders have been given a stay of execution on needing to apply online to a...

Guangzhou Shipyard International Co Ltd, a unit of State-owned China State Shipbuilding Corp, said on Tuesday that it has completed building work for the double-ended roll-on roll-off hybrid passenger ship for buyer P&O Ferries in the United Kingdom....

Businesses and government organizations are increasingly confident of boosting trade and commercial activities during the upcoming China Import and Export Fair, as the trade event is scheduled to fully resume its offline activities in April....

Stronger El Nino weather patterns may speed up the...

Li Yining, a pioneering economist renowned for his contributions to China's economic reform, passed away on Monday night in Beijing at the age of 92, a statement on the official website of Peking University said late on Monday....

Winemakers in Spain are working to identify grape vines more suitable to coping with rising temperatures, which have laid bare a crop that is particularly sensitive to environmental changes....

Seeing a very good start in business this year after China lifted its travel ban, Cong Zheming expressed huge confidence for 2023. Click the video to find out more about Cong's story of going global....

The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has paid a surprise visit to Kyiv to reaffirm support for Ukraine, and has committed to providing more than $10 billion in budget support by September....

China's latest efforts to promote the country's digital development are expected to lay a solid foundation for long-term economic growth, bolster digital transformation and upgrade of industries, and enhance the country's core global competiti...

China has managed to fundamentally reverse the decline of groundwater in North China, a problem that dates back to the 1970s, according to the Ministry of Water Resources....

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has voiced his support for China's 12-point proposal for a political settlement in the Russia-Ukraine crisis issued on Friday, the one-year anniversary of the conflict....

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Northern Ireland on Tuesday to sell his revised post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, as he aims to resolve issues stoking sectarian tensions in the country....

Mastercard is betting on travel recovery opportunities this year that are expected to enable Chinese travelers resume globetrotting after three years of COVID-related curbs....

The whole fanfare of the United States' twists over a Chinese civilian airship is just what the political doctor ordered....

It was a chilly and snowy morning in early February, and worried that villagers suffering from high blood pressure might lose their balance and slip in the snow, Gao Jie, the only physician in the village of Tongchuan in Hebei province, started his busy w...

Central government agencies handled tens of thousands of suggestions and proposals made by national legislators and political advisers over the course of last year, which led to measures being taken on issues such as overpriced COVID-19 medication, food s...

Global food giant Nestle has ramped up efforts since January on its businesses of coffee, infant nutrition, pet and health science through innovation, localization and digitalization, encouraged by a strong rebound in consumption, said its top executive....

Reduced energy consumption and rapid development of renewables helped accelerate China's transition to a green and low-carbon economy last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a report on Tuesday....

In front of nearly 3,000 deputies to the National People's Congress, and watched by tens of millions of people live on television, President Xi Jinping placed his left hand on China's Constitution, raised his right hand near his temple, and made a...

China has said it firmly opposes the United States generalizing the concept of national security and that it is abusing state power to suppress non-American companies....

Experts overseas have lauded the progress made by China in advancing the rule of law over the past decade....

The People's Liberation Army Navy could soon have a new carrier-borne combat aircraft, named by observers as the J-35, according to a recruitment video published by the navy....

The upcoming reform of the institutions of the Communist Party of China and the State will seek to tackle some difficult major issues of public concern and exert significant influence over socioeconomic development, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CP...

A key meeting of the Communist Party of China has adopted a draft plan for the reform of Party and State institutions as part of broader efforts to enhance the Party's leadership over the nation's socialist modernization....

China remains the world's second-largest economy as the country's GDP surpassed 121 trillion yuan ($17.44 trillion) in 2022, pointing to a steady recovery trend despite economic shocks, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday....

A man in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, brought his ex-wife to court to fight for the ownership of a corgi dog they raised before they divorced, reported ThePaper.cn, a news outlet based in Shanghai....

A cleaning lady who was sacked after she called the police to turn in a lost bag with 20,000 yuan ($2,882) inside should be rewarded, according to a statement released by the Administration for Market Regulation in Xigang district of Dalian, Liaoning prov...

The authorities of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin issued measures on Tuesday to support the development of Macao-invested companies in the zone....

A 53-day-old infant survived after getting a heart transplant from a seven-month-old donor in Wuhan, Hubei province, breaking a medical record for the surgery in Asia....

The Tibet autonomous region announced it will implement a new regulation to promote the development of small and medium-size enterprises in the region starting on Wednesday, according to the regional Department of Economy and Information Technology....

Products from Agilent Technologies (Shanghai) Co Ltd, the Shanghai manufacturing center of Agilent Technologies Inc — a United States-based company engaged in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemicals — have reached laboratories in 110 ...

Huawei Technologies Co has launched a string of cutting-edge solutions at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, in its latest push to innovate in the era of 5.5G, an evolution of 5G technology....

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a consultative meeting Tuesday to hear opinions and inform non-CPC political parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and personages without party affiliation of a plan on the ref...

China and the ancient Greece are among the world's most important cradles for human civilizations. More than 2,000 years ago, the two ancient civilizations still had some indirect exchanges despite being separated by the vast Eurasian landmass. The an...