President Xi Jinping instructed government officials on Wednesday to take more measures to coordinate disease prevention and the resumption of economic production in an effort to fulfill this year's development goals.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday China is willing to help Belgium overcome the current shortage of medical supplies within its capacity.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday slammed some U.S. politicians' "shameless" remarks doubting China's reporting of coronavirus cases in the country.
China stands together with Afghan people to fight the novel coronavirus, Chinese Ambassador to Afghansitan Wang Yu said at a handover ceremony of the first batch of China-aided medical supplies on Thursday.
Philippine Ambassador to Lebanon Bernardita Catalla died from COVID-19 complications early on Thursday at a Lebanese hospital, the National News Agency reported.
China will continue deepening international cooperation on responding to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the National Health Commission (NHC) said Thursday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may possibly cancel a planned trip in May to Moscow amid concerns over the global COVID-19 pandemic, government sources said on Thursday.
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will invest about 3.09 billion yuan (435 million U.S. dollars) in the power grid project in southern Xinjiang to ensure the heating supply for 290,000 farmers and herdsmen.
The National Internet Finance Association of China (NIFA), a self-disciplinary industrial body, on Thursday alerted the market to risks in overseas initial coin offerings (ICOs) and virtual currency trading.
Chinese financial regulator warned of virtual currency investment risk and fake information from illegal foreign-based trading platforms.
The average yield for China's enterprise annuity funds stood at 8.3 percent last year, with the aggregate investment return reaching 125.8 billion yuan (17.7 billion U.S. dollars), Shanghai Securities News reported Thursday.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) said Wednesday it has approved around 208 million Kenyan shillings (about 2 million U.S. dollars) in emergency assistance for the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen its capacity to help African countries contain the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its impacts.
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a leading holographic augmented reality (AR) application platform in China, started trading on Nasdaq Wednesday.
Fourteen people who died on the frontline of fighting the novel coronavirus in central China's Hubei Province, have been identified as the first batch of martyrs, local authorities said Thursday.
Soon after arriving in Laos on Sunday, the Chinese Anti-epidemic Medical Expert Team started to work, investigating epidemic situation and local medical condition, and assisting in detection and diagnosis of COVID-19.
Israel reported five new death cases from the novel coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 31, Israel's Ministry of Health said Thursday.
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia has surpassed 5,000.
A forest fire that raged for over a day has been put out in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the local government said Thursday.
As the worldwide coronavirus outbreak enters a new month, official statistics show that the pandemic is deadlier in Italy than in any other country.
A new China body image trend is sweeping Chinese social media after a Chinese actress launched a new collarbone challenge, which is standing a lipstick container on her collarbone, on her Sina Weibo account.
Lots of Chinese netizens have uploaded numerous photos of delicious dishes and recipes on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo that they have come up with while staying at home amid the ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Hats that come with wigs attached of various lengths and colors have become a new favorite on Chinese e-commerce platforms, helping not only men who are follically challenged but women who want to dramatically transform their look.
The viral video was uploaded on Twitter with the caption, "This Arab guy calls the hotel reception to complain about a mouse in his room. Listen to how he describes the situation."
A video of two chimpanzees in a Chinese wildlife park that suggests they have a "superpower" - the ability to read a newspaper - has gone viral on social media.
An art teacher in North China's Shanxi Province is turning heavy pieces of broken machinery into busts of China's 12 zodiac animals for the upcoming Chinese New Year, which falls on January 25 this year.
Guam Governor Leon Guerrero said Thursday that she decided to allow sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt to leave the military base and be quarantined in hotels on the island after the Navy asked for help to deal with the spread of COVID-19 on the aircraft carrier.
The U.S. Navy is evacuating thousands of sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus on the ship, Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Wednesday.
With the spread of the novel coronavirus accelerating on U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, the warship faces a fate much worse than the Diamond Princess cruise ship as most of the crew members remain in close quarters on the carrier to maintain its combat readiness.
The Hong Kong Garrison of the Chinese People's Liberation Army reported a helicopter accident during its training at a park on Monday afternoon, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government said in a statement on Tuesday via its official website.
China's Central Military Commission has released regulations defining duties of the supervisory department of each sector within the military in rooting out corruption.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) successfully test-fired super-large multiple rocket launchers on Sunday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Monday morning.
Researchers from China and the UK have developed a novel deep learning method for autonomous mobile manipulators in unstructured environments, which could facilitate the autonomous operation of underwater robots.
The Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in central China's Hunan Province has introduced two intelligent robots to disinfect the outpatient hall amid the novel coronavirus epidemic.
Scientists advising the British government about the novel coronavirus say a smartphone app that alerts users when they have come into contact with someone who has tested positive could play a "critical role "in limiting the extent of lockdowns.
Scientists in the United Kingdom are investigating whether dogs are capable of sniffing out COVID-19 infections in the same way that some animals can detect diseases, including malaria and certain cancers.
Artificial intelligence has played an important role in fighting the novel coronavirus in China, especially in diagnosing novel coronavirus pneumonia. The technology is now going overseas to fight the pandemic.
China's first self-developed carbon ion therapy facility has been put into clinical use for cancer patients, according to its developers.
Some 28 museums, including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Palace Museum, the National Museum, and the Summer Palace, have opened on Tmall, with Russia's State Hermitage Museum being the latest to join on Sunday.
A Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen overnight from the Singer Laren Museum in Dutch province of North Holland, which has been closed due to the coronavirus epidemic, the museum announced on Monday
The cultural relics department of northwest China's Gansu Province said they have found an ancient tomb with delicate brick carvings.
The Chinese Cultural Center in Cairo has launched an online competition to raise awareness among Egyptians to combat the novel coronavirus, which has posed a major challenge to the entire world.
The Danxia Mountain Scenic area will again open to the public from March 28, with a maximum visitor limit of 5,000 per day, its management committee announced Thursday.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to quite a lot of changes, especially in China. The internet has seen another boom, as people watch movies and do their shopping online. Even fashion shows are taking advantage of livestreaming. The 2020 Shanghai Fashion Week takes place as scheduled, but online.
Professional tennis ruling bodies WTA and ATP have postponed all their tournaments until July 13 due to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
UEFA announced on Wednesday to suspend all Champions League and Europa League matches "until further notice" due to the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, all national team matches scheduled in June will be postponed, including the play-off matches for Euro 2020.
This year's Wimbledon has been cancelled due to the public health concerns related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the All England Club (AELTC) announced after an emergency meeting on Wednesday.
China's sports officials and athletes are embracing the Olympics' one-year delay with a positive mindset, despite the many challenges the postponement presents.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will join hands with both the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Organizing Committees to make the two Games, set to be held within half a year of each other, a commercial and public success.
The Tokyo Olympic flame has been handed over to Japan's northeastern Fukushima Prefecture to be displayed for a month.
In 2019, three giant panda cubs "Jia Jia", "Yuan Yuan" and "Qin Kuer" were born in the Qinling research center of giant panda breeding. The three giant pandas grew up healthily with the care of the staff.
Qi Zai, the world's only captive brown giant panda, has succeeded in natural mating with a female panda for the first time, according to the Qinling research center of giant panda breeding in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda on Tuesday welcomed the birth of the world's first pair of captive-bred giant panda twins this year.
The Qinling Mountains, located mostly in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, have been a favored home for giant pandas, whose habitat exceeds 3,600 square kilometers.
Giant pandas are seen on a tree in Foping County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, March 7, 2020.
The project began on Sunday when Zhang and his team started to choose a panda for the video. They also wrote a script for the video, which included all the inspirational words they wanted to share with the patients.
From the Meuse River to the Dinaric Alps, from Rica to Piraeus, increasing numbers of Chinese enterprises and residents stand side by side with local authorities and frontline health workers in Europe to help attenuate the sanitary shockwave in their second homeland, now the epicenter of the pandemic.
"Over the past 50 days, unforgettable stories occured every 24 hours," said a teary Jiao Yahui while recalling the novel coronavirus battle in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
