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China will maintain reasonably rapid growth while making a significant contribution to global growth, a U.S. economist has said.
China will build at least 80 million mu (5.33 million hectares) of high-standard farmland this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Sunday.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday required European allies to take back 800 Islamic State (IS) militants arrested in Syria after the U.S.
China will make efforts to reduce sugar intake among both children and adults, in a bid to improve the nation's oral health, according to an action plan recently released by the National Health Commission.
A surfer was airlifted to hospital in a serious condition after being bitten by a shark at a popular Australian coastal spot on Sunday.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert withdrew herself from consideration for the nomination of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN), the department said in a statement on Saturday.
Chinese actor Wang Jingchun and actress Yong Mei won the Silver Bears for Best Actor and Best Actress for their performances in the film "So Long, My Son" at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) on Saturday.
A forest fire has been extinguished in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Giant pandas Cai Tao and Hu Chen arrived in Indonesia in September 2017 from their home in Chengdu, China. The pandas are in Indonesia as part of a 10-year breeding loan agreement with the Chinese government.
The deputy director-general of China's Department of Consular Affairs Chen Xiongfeng Friday called in the Spanish envoy in Beijing to raise the issue of the freezing of bank accounts of Chinese citizens in Spain without prior notice.
China's sprinter Su Bingtian won the men's 60 meters title with a season best of 6.47 seconds at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Birmingham on Saturday.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza confirmed Saturday that he has participated in two meetings with U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams to address the two countries' relationship.
More than 80 boys and girls had a special Lunar New Year celebration with California Senator Scott Wiener on Friday in San Francisco to mark the state's official recognition of the festival.
Facts have shown and will continue to prove that the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative creates opportunities and benefits for all countries and serves the common interests of humanity, a senior Chinese official said here Saturday.
China saw its cancer incidence rising at an annual rate of 3.9 percent for over 10 years in a row, with more than 220 billion yuan (about 32.46 billion U.S. dollars) of cancer-related medical expenses each year.
Yang Jiechi expressed the hope on Saturday that the United States would implement, along with China, the consensus reached by the two heads of state, advancing bilateral ties based on coordination, cooperation and stability.
Chinese scientists have developed a large-scale transparent smart window that can change light intensity while effectively capturing the particulate matter in smog, said a study published on Saturday in the journal iScience.
Medical conditions in China's poorest regions are improving with the help of targeted medical assistance to hospitals in these regions.
China hopes that the United States and Russia will return to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a senior Chinese official said here Saturday.
Senior Chinese official Yang Jiechi said here on Saturday that China and Germany should maintain strategic resolve and the steady and healthy development of bilateral relations in the face of today's complicated world.
China has called for upholding international cooperation and multilateralism as the global governance system is facing challenges and uncertainties.
Three months after the "Yellow Vests" movement began, discontent people were staging further rallies and protests on Saturday across French cities for the 14th straight weekend of action against French President Emmanuel Macron's economic reforms.
Egypt plans to make its new administrative capital the first cashless city in the country as part of the country's plans to support financial inclusion, Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat said on Saturday.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions on five Venezuelan officials, the latest move to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
No victims were reported to be trapped under the rubble after a university building in the Russian city of St. Petersburg partially collapsed on Saturday, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said.
Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai held in Chiang Mai Saturday strategic consultations and exchanged in-depth views on the South China Sea issue.
A new study has found that artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs) could lead to vascular diseases.
Peking University on Saturday confirmed academic misconduct by Zhai Tianlin, a Chinese celebrity recently doubted online over his academic achievements, according to a statement.
A Chinese researcher said China's satellite Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) or Micius would work at least two more years beyond its two-year working lifetime and carry out more international cooperation.
With four record seizures in a span of two months, it's the bloodiest World Pangolin Day in the history of the ant-eating mammal.
