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China will place tariffs on about $60 billion worth of imports from the United States in response to Washington's announcement of additional levies on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council said on Tuesday.
Chinese officials said China's achievements in poverty reduction have contributed to more than 70 percent of the world's total reduction during the 2018 Beijing Forum on Human Rights, which is convened Tuesday and Wednesday.
18 (Xinhua) -- A new Ibope poll for the Brazilian presidential election released Tuesday shows a significant advance of the Workers' Party's candidate, shifting the scenario of the presidential race.
KABUL, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- About 16,633 Afghan refugees had returned or been deported from neighboring Pakistan and Iran to Afghanistan during the period of Sept.Meanwhile, 15,664 Afghans had reportedly arrived over the period from Iran, 10 percent more than the previous week, according to the statement.
China will further reduce the tariff duties on some imports, making the country's overall tariffs continue to fall, and gradually remove the unreasonable charges on imports, Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday.
On Tuesday night, Ford's attorney Lisa Banks told CNN that Ford was "not prepared to talk" at the Senate panel's public hearing scheduled for Monday."Asking her to come forward in four or five days and sit before the Judiciary Committee on national TV is not a fair process," Banks said.
Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, vowing to further enhance coordination and cooperation so as to promote bilateral ties.
China has unveiled an array of measures to significantly broaden market access since the beginning of 2018, a year marking the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening-up policy.
Lebanese citizens are expected to experience increased power cuts with only 6 to 7 hours of electricity daily in the coming three months, local media reported on Wednesday.
Smart manufacturing is a major application of the Internet of Things (IoT), one of the latest technological innovations that experts say are empowering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And a perfect case in point is Bosch Automotive Diesel System (RBCD) Co.
China will further reduce the tariff duties on some imports, making the country's overall tariffs continue to fall, and gradually remove the unreasonable charges on imports, Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for more efforts to advance mass entrepreneurship and innovation, at the opening plenary of Summer Davos on Wednesday.
"I remain optimistic despite the world economy facing many challenges, such as trade friction, debt problems and even the impact of global warming," he said.China is now making transition to a higher value, lower carbon economy," said Isabel Hilton, editor of Chinadialogue, at the session "China's green leadership."
Beijing Daxing International Airport, the capital's new mega airport, will be supported with an extensive transportation network featuring five north-south and two east-west lines, according to the city's top economic planner.
A chemical leak at a luxury Sydney hotel on Wednesday has seen eight people taken to nearby hospital and 24 others treated at the scene, a New South Wales State Ambulance spokesperson said.
2 Primary School, a brand new school compound which was completed in August and started admitting students weeks later, Hubei Daily reported.The school's playground under construction in February.
The death toll of the powerful typhoon Mangkhut that battered the Philippines over the last weekend has risen to 81, police said on Wednesday.The majority of the dead and the missing came from the mountainous Cordillera Administrative Region where many landslides occurred, he added.The Mangkhut is the strongest typhoon which hit the Philippines this year.
Six Nepali nationals died and 16 Nepali nationals were injured from alcohol poisoning in the state of Selangor in Malaysia, the Nepali Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) confirmed here on Wednesday.
This month alone, as many as 10 people lost their lives in India while cleaning human waste manually.
A challenge of going 21 days without losing your temper, which was set as homework for a class of third-grade students and their parents during the summer vacation in Wuhan, has suddenly become an internet hit
An ice cream containing yellow rice wine in its ingredients is raising concerns over the possibility of drunken driving by consumers, reported Beijing Youth Daily.
An astonishing medical claim that "inserting a needle into the body of a mother can also relieve the symptom of her kid," is making rounds on China's social media.
Video clips and images of a young woman wearing a black top and high-heel boots on a late night horseback ride through the streets of Shanghai went viral on Chinese social media Tuesday night.
A 26-year-old woman has been given a warning for riding a horse along a downtown street on Tuesday night, police said yesterday.
Following the enrollment of the handsome Gugu, another goose has recently been admitted to Shanghai Maritime University, and this time it's a girl.
Defense chiefs of South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) signed an agreement on military affairs Wednesday at the Baekhwawon State Guest House in Pyongyang, with the leaders of the two Koreas standing behind the defense heads, live broadcast at the Seoul press center showed.
A recruitment campaign has been launched for aircraft carrier cadet pilots by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy.
The missile of Syria's S-200 air defense system shot down the Russian Il-20 surveillance plane by mistake on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
A Russian aircraft with 14 servicemen on board went off radar near Hmeymim airbase in Syria Monday evening, Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The art troupe of People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force said farewell to the public in a video uploaded on the army's website 81.cn on Friday afternoon.
China on Monday urged countries outside the region to behave with caution and refrain from activities that undermine regional peace and stability, after Japan conducted its first ever peacetime submarine drill in the South China Sea.
Smart manufacturing is a major application of the Internet of Things (IoT), one of the latest technological innovations that experts say are empowering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And a perfect case in point is Bosch Automotive Diesel System (RBCD) Co.
China will launch two Mars missions in 2020 and 2028 as four deep space exploration missions are planned before 2030.
Booming tourism will not impact the world's largest radio telescope in mountainous Guizhou Province, thanks to a slew of rigorous requirements, Science and Technology Daily reported on Wednesday.
China's ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing on Tuesday launched operations in Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city, as part of its expansion plans.
U.S. tech giant Google values the Chinese market for its great potential in artificial intelligence (AI) development, despite the risk that growing trade tension between China and the U.S. could hinder technology cooperation.
China will invest 100 billion yuan (about 14.6 billion U.S. dollars) for developing the digital economy in the next five years.
Chinese are celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival on Monday - an annual festival that falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar.
Unlike Western culture, in which the animal is connected with a lunatic spirit, Chinese mythology found a sacred job for the rabbit: cooking up medicine on the moon.
"Collect gold in the troubled times; collect antiques in the flourishing age." This old Chinese saying has been disseminated through society as a weather vane for good investment for generations.
Most U.S. voters backing President Donald Trump "don't believe there is anything at stake" for the Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a private survey released by media on Tuesday.
With the official definition of that yellow-faced sticker as "face with tears of joy", the honored emoji was found to be the most widely used of its type in the world in 2015.
Little Big City Beijing recently opened in the capital's historical Qianmen Street, a miniature venue that showcases the city's culture and history since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368).
Chinese tennis player Zheng Saisai, together with former US Open champion Samantha Stosur and the rising American star Bernarda Pera will join a host of superstars at next week's Wuhan Open after accepting wildcards into the main draw, organizers announced on Tuesday.
The 2018 Dongfeng Nissan Chengdu International Marathon will kick off on October 27, and registration starts on Wednesday.Prior to the marathon, the 2018 Chengdu International Marathon Expo will be staged, allowing local residents and visitors to enrich their knowledge about marathon.
Ten years has passed, but the proud legacy of China's 2008 Olympic basketball team is still inspiring the younger generation.
The 20 million yuan ($2.9 million) tournament, which was last staged in the city in 2011, will return to the Sichuan provincial capital from May 2-5 as the nation celebrates a quarter of a century of its flagship pro tournament.
Spanish Basketball Federation president Jorge Garbajosa reckons the influence of Yao Ming will help China's national women's team take its game to the next level.
The third meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for Beijing 2022 was held in the organizing committee's Shougang headquarters this week (September 17-18) to discuss progress made so far and the work that lies ahead.
A project has been launched to employ artificial intelligence alongside images and video material to bring back to life the giant panda Basi, the world's oldest captive panda that died at the age of 37 in 2017.
A female giant panda cub born at a zoo in Japan will make her first public appearance Thursday at the Japanese Zoo, according to a source with the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Qizai, a nine-year-old giant panda of the rare Qinling subspecies, is set to be a dad soon.
Qizai, a rare brown and white giant panda, eats bamboo shoots at Shaanxi rare wild animals rescuing and raising research center in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Sept. 7, 2018.
He Min has patrolled the giant panda habitat of Baishuijiang National Reserve in northwest China's Gansu Province for 16 years, but he has only had one encounter with a wild animal.
Born two days later than Yuan Yuan in 2004, giant panda Tuan Tuan also celebrated its 14th birthday together with Yuan Yuan on Thursday. Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan were given as a goodwill gift to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland.
The Shanghai Pudong New Area has developed from farmland into a modern urban district in the past 28 years.
The parrots imitate Lin Zhaoming's words - "Good morning", "Don't make so much noise" - every morning when he arrives to clean their cages at the Guangzhou Wildlife Rescue Center.
