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A 37-year-old fast food courier from Central China's Hunan province was crowned champion in a televised Chinese poetry knowledge contest, winning fans over with his true love for ancient poems.
The quality and efficiency of China's economy has been improving as the country implements supply-side reform, according to official data.
Contemporary popular cartoonist Gao Youjun, English name Tango Gao, is showing nearly 100 of his comics in Suzhou city, Jiangsu Province.
China's island province of Hainan plans to have all its vehicles run on new energy by 2030, provincial governor Shen Xiaoming said Monday.
Software-based satellites will soon establish an open operating system available to the general public via smartphone devices, said Zhao Junsuo, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Software where the satellite Tianzhi-1 was developed.
A robot playing the popular Chinese game mahjong at an exhibition to mark the 122nd anniversary of the founding of Xi'an Jiaotong University in Xi'an City, the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 8, 2018.
TV programs should promote social benefits instead of self-centered values, said Gao Changli, an official of the State Administration of Radio and Television.
At this defining moment when globalization desperately needs support, the annual Boao Forum for Asia conference is setting the stage for President Xi Jinping to further define China's stance.
The payment affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has been fined 180,000 yuan (US$28,571) by the central bank for failing to properly inform customers during product promotions and mishandling their personal financial information.
Thailand's crown princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn paid a visit on April 7 to Beichuan, a earthquake-hit town in 2008.
Spanish bullfighter Roman is tossed during a bullfight in Toledo, Spain, April 7, 2018.
French Member of Parliament Buon-Huong Tan (L) attends a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I and also pay tribute to Chinese laborers in the war at the Nolette Chinese Cemetery, Noyelles-sur-Mer, France, April 8, 2018.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) planned to hold more working-level talks this week to prepare for the upcoming inter-Korean summit later this month, Seoul's unification ministry said Monday.
Hainan Province Governor Shen Xiaoming on Monday called for a larger role for global islands in developing the 21st century Maritime Silk Road under the principles of extensive consultation, joint contributions and shared benefits at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA).
Asia will remain the fastest growing economy in the world in the next 20 years or even to the middle of this century, Dai Xianglong, China’s former central bank governor, said at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2018 on Monday.
The People's Bank of China has announced a pilot program to tighten checks of the information collected from resident identification cards, reports Xinhua.
It houses a great variety of stalactites and each is a unique formation. The cave was discovered accidentally in 2003 and is now open to visitors, who can appreciate the cluster of geological wonders.
U.S. President Donald Trump's National Security Council spokesperson Michael Anton was planning to leave the administration, the White House said on Sunday.
Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was indicted on Monday over corruption charges, including bribery, embezzlement and tax evasion.
Over 100 Highland cows are herded to uninhabited Isle of Vallay in the Outer Hebrides that is only able to be reached at low tide.
The Chinese government on Sunday announced it would loosen its grip on medical equipment import management in a pilot zone in Boao, South China's Hainan Province.
South Korean prosecutors indicted former President Lee Myung-bak on Monday for corruption, according to Yonhap.
On April 10, Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote speech at the ongoing Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in south China’s Hainan Province.
China will have its own “NBA-like” e-sport matches within 5 to 10 years as the game market is set to continue to boom.
In 2017, after 11 years of study in the United States, a period topped by a master's in computer science from Harvard University, Tang Yuhan, 26, decided to return to homeland China.
JD.com said it will invest 10 billion yuan (US$1.6 billion) in Hunan Province's Xiangtan City.
Holding several Chinese bestsellers in hands, including "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China," Ridha Mahjoub, a 53-year-old Tunisian businessman, was searching for more books at the China exhibition booth at Tunis International Book Fair.
The 2018 China International Equestrian Endurance Competition opens in Dangshan County, East China's Anhui Province, April 8, 2018.
Figures released by FIFA show that football fans in China have bought almost 37,000 tickets to the Russian World Cup, reports Russia's Sputnik News.
A total of 14 people, including troops of Iranian forces allied to the government, were killed in a missile strike that targeted an airbase in central Syria before daybreak Monday, a monitor group reported.
Asian regional economic integration shifted to center on China in 2017, based on previous arduous efforts and strong support from other Asian countries.
Former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was elected chairman of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) on Monday.
The Fifth World Buddhist Forum will be held from Oct. 28 to 30 in the coastal city of Putian in east China's Fujian Province, the organizers said.
China's power consumption rose the fastest over the past five years during January and February as industrial growth accelerated, the National Development and Reform Commission said on Sunday.
Overseas Chinese in western United States staged a grand ceremony Sunday in downtown San Francisco to pay their homage to Yellow Emperor, who is regarded as one of the common ancestors for all Chinese.
China will continue to open up and stick to an innovation-driven strategy for State-owned enterprises (SOEs) despite a rise of anti-globalization in the world.
Workers of company 'Polar bear' unload a huge traditional Russian Easter cake (paskha), a festive dish made of cottage cheese, butter, dried fruits and vanilla to enter the Guinness book of the World Records in front of the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, April 8, 2018.
The 2018 edition of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), also known as Asia's Davos, has drawn widespread media attention ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's keynote speech at the opening ceremony of this year's conference.
Visitors view a Catalina "flying boat" of Qantas Airlines during the Canberra Airport Open Day in Canberra, Australia, on April 8, 2018.
Ice is exploded in the Heilong River in Mohe County, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. To prevent chunks of ice from jamming as temperatures rise, local authorities broke up the icy river in a series of controlled explosions from April 4 to 8.
Zhou Wenzhong, Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), said the United States is facing economic problems and President Donald Trump is making the wrong prescription to fix them.
Local authorities in Mohe County, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, broke up ice on the Heilong River from April 4 to 8 to prevent an ice jam as temperatures rose.
California’s winemakers are feeling the impact of China’s recently announced tariff on US wines as a retaliatory measure against the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on China’s steel and aluminum.
Douyin, a Chinese app that publishes short videos, announced it will go global this year and cover markets like Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.
China aims to have commercial use of 5G technology up and running in 2019, according to a senior official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
China will expand testing alkali-resistant "sea rice" across the country to turn 100 million hectares of saline-alkaline soil in the country into arable land
Spam messages and calls in China were kept under control last year, the country's top cyber security firm 360 said in a report yesterday.
A top Chinese manufacturer is confident of "catching up with Western rivals and winning the global competition" in the high-end sector despite U.S. President Donald Trump's recent moves targeting Chinese tech products.
Guangdong Province-based Ruichi Intelligent Automobile Co, a company that is linked to Faraday Future, which was invested in by LeEco Founder Jia Yueting, won a bid for an industrial site in Guangzhou.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said Sunday that China will push forward financial supervision reform and win the battle against financial risk.
The Qintong Boat Festival in Taizhou originated in China's Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279 A.D.) as a ceremony to commemorate war victims around the Qingming Festival.
Protectionist measures will never be rewarded and only opening-up and mutually beneficial policies can bring in economic prosperity for the Asian and global economies.
The world economy, which is gradually recovering from a weak performance in the past 10 years, demands stability instead of trade conflict between the two largest economies, experts said at the opening day of Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018.
Aerial photo taken on April 8, 2018 shows a pattern of dragon robe in a cole flower field in Changjiangyu Village in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province.
Chinese agricultural researchers have selected 176 strains of saltwater-tolerant rice out of more than 1,000 candidates from experimental paddies and expect them to be widely planted across the country in further trials this year.
China will continue to safeguard the authority of the United Nations and uphold multilateralism, though major countries should take responsibilities for their actions.
One morning in a not-too-distant future, you’re reading a news article suspended in the air with your nano-wafer contacts while on the way to work in a driverless flying taxi. Suddenly, your wife calls you. Instead of picking up the smartphone, you accept the “call” with a flicker of thought, and her voice fills your mind as she reminds you that the kids have swimming lessons today.
National surveys often show that people from the tropical island province of Hainan are high on the happiness scale. A healthy ecology and green-themed sustainable practices are the key elements cited.
Forty-one people have been detained for storing and dumping thousands of tons of solid waste in areas close to the Yangtze River in Anhui province, local authorities announced recently.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has told the United States that it was ready to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at the planned meeting between the two countries' leaders, media reports said Sunday citing U.S. officials.
The first bus transporting the released people from rebels' captivity in Syria's Douma reached the Syrian army position near the capital Damascus on Sunday, state TV reported.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition won the general elections in Hungary on Sunday, with 49.42 percent of the vote, at 81 percent of the votes counted by the National Election office.
Zhou Wenzhong, secretary general of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), addresses a press conference of the BFA Annual Conference 2018 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, April 8, 2018.
By continually raising the stakes in its trade dispute with China, the United States is no doubt hoping Beijing will fold, but that is a losing bet, China Daily said in an editorial over the weekend.
In the future, your eligibility for a specific investment portfolio might be decided by a brain scan test.
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has strengthened its power and management in border defense by developing new types of equipment that can be used in all environments, including those with extremes of temperature and topography.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a multilateral development bank, has helped many Asian countries have better infrastructure, deeper regional integration and accelerated poverty reduction, an AIIB official told Xinhua here recently in an exclusive interview.
As U.S. President Donald Trump initiated the tariffs offensive on steel and aluminum in March and planned more on its imports from China, experts and officials have noted that the U.S. move is in violation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s principles and would harmed U.S. economy itself.
A wild panda mother and her cub were spotted by an infrared camera in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to a local nature reserve.
As the trade tension escalates between China and the United States, U.S. experts are calling for negotiations to settle the disputes.
China's first homegrown regional jetliner, the ARJ21-700, has completed a crosswind flight test. An ARJ21-700 aircraft landed at around 3 p.m. Sunday, April 8, 2018 at Yanliang airport in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, after a 41-day trip to Iceland, according to the Shanghai-based Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC), its producer.
China's first domestically developed regional jet ARJ21 has completed a strong crosswind test flight in Iceland and flew back to China yesterday.
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday "China will take down its Trade Barriers because it is the right thing to do", though he did not give any further explanation for his optimism about the world's two largest economies settling the trade disputes.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday refuted reports purporting that Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in Douma district, a besieged enclave near capital Damascus, calling the allegation "fabrication" and "provocation."
Hollywood knew it was coming, just not this soon.
The anti-globalization sentiment that originated from the West continues to spread over the world, and is challenging Asian economic integration, a report released by the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) said Sunday.
Chinese online game developer NetDragon Websoft Inc. announced Sunday it had acquired 100-percent stake in Edmodo, a leading U.S. online learning community.
The war of words between U.S. and China has escalated rapidly over the last few days. On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump upped the ante in the trade battle with China, suggesting further tariffs on $100 bln of imported goods from China.
China and Singapore on Sunday agreed to deepen cooperation in key areas.
China's first software-based satellite will be launched in the second half of the year, which will largely benefit the public as well as serve national defense, experts said.
The Belt and Road Initiative has injected fresh vitality to Asia's economic cooperation and helped the continent to reshape its international relations, according to a report released Sunday at the Boao Forum for Asia 2018 annual conference.
The wayward U.S. tariff proposals are typical unilateralist and protectionist practices that are hurting global companies and putting free trade at risk.
Chinese scientists have conducted a whole-genome sequencing study for Alzheimer's disease in the Chinese population for the first time and have identified two new genetic risk factors associated with Alzheimer's.
Travelers focused more than usual on cultural experiences during this year's Tomb Sweeping Festival holiday, according to a report by the China Tourism Academy and online travel agency Lvmama on Sunday.
China's first homegrown regional jetliner, the ARJ21-700, has completed a crosswind flight test.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday expressed the need to improve global governance during his meeting with visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
China is willing to bring benefits to surrounding countries through its own development and build a community of both shared interest and shared destiny with countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries.
The escalating trade dispute initiated by the Trump administration is not meant to address the trade imbalance between China and the United States, but to curb China’s technological market expansion, experts said on Sunday.
The top leaders of China and Austria agreed on Sunday to upgrade bilateral ties to a friendly strategic partnership as the European country sends an unprecedented official delegation to China.
Over a year ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping vigorously defended free trade at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, impressing the world with China's staunch support for globalization.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan Sunday in Beijing.
No countries can address their economic problems through protectionism, Zhou Wenzhong, secretary-general of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), said Sunday, noting that "protectionism will lead nowhere."
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday held talks with visiting Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. They agreed to establish a Sino-Austrian friendly strategic partnership and advance bilateral pragmatic cooperation to a new level.
Asia has maintained stable growth and is expected to lead the world in economic development amid moderate recovery of major economies, said a Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) report Sunday.
American farmers, companies and workers will be attacked by Trump administration’s announced tariffs, said John Ross, Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.
Wuyuan, an east China county famed for its cole flowers and pastoral beauty, is investing big to improve the environment.
Chinese scientists have completed the world's first whole genome sequencing of the Peruvian scallop, an economically important bivalve in Chile, Peru and China.
Hangzhou is globally known for its natural beauty, tea fields that stretch for miles and its famous West Lake Longjing tea. It's harvested once a year in early April around China's traditional Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Starting from May 1, railway passengers who break certain rules will be restricted from buying train tickets for a certain period of time.
Concerns are mounting in South Korea over the U.S. administration's protectionist moves that have stoked trade friction with China and could trigger a trade war between the world's top two economies in the worse-case scenario.
Recent U.S. threats to slap additional tariffs on Chinese imports were met with a chorus of criticism here Saturday, with leading experts emphasizing that no winner can emerge from a trade war.
Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in creating stem cells with a cocktail of two chemicals that can induce mature somatic cells to turn back into pluripotent stem cells.
Islamabad's new international airport built by Chinese on Saturday welcomed the first plane during a scheduled mock flight to test operations.
A Canadian fertility doctor may face a class action lawsuit in which he is accused of using his own sperm to inseminate 11 of his clients without their knowledge or consent.
On the occasion of the 69th World Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on world leaders on Saturday to commit to concrete steps to advance universal health coverage (UHC), which ensures everyone everywhere can access essential quality health services without facing financial hardship by 2030.
