On behalf of the CPC as well as the Chinese government and people, Xi congratulated Thongloun on election as general secretary of the LPRP Central Committee.
The Russian Foreign Ministry blamed the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for interference in opposition rallies in Russia, which are the country's domestic affairs.
China's war on corruption goes on in 2021 as the country's top anti-graft body announced punishments for seven centrally-administrated officials accused of taking bribes in the first 11 days of the new year.
The director-general of the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday said the coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the need for the world to strengthen agriculture and food systems.
The White House said on Friday that the United States would review its agreement with the Afghan Taliban, which was signed in last February.National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told this plan in his phone conversation with his Afghan counterpart Hamdullah Mohib earlier in the day, according to a White House statement.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Friday welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's newly announced intention to extend by five years a bilateral treaty with Russia on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed the importance of leveraging the guiding and safeguarding roles of strict Party governance in every respect to ensure the development goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) are fulfilled.
Beijing vows to build itself into an international consumption center, local authorities said on Saturday.
China's consumer spending has been on track to fully recover from the ravage of COVID-19, with proven resilience in the tests in 2020 and new traits to watch this year.
The two Loma Blanca projects are estimated to generate about 450 million kilowatt-hours of clean energy, meeting the electricity consumption demand of nearly 100 thousand households.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has underscored the importance of precise and effective macro-control policies to address the development needs of market entities and further spur their vitality and social creativity.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday said that China welcomes the expansion of two-way trade and investment with Denmark.
British business activity in January registered an eight-month low as the country introduced a new round of lockdown restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Friday.
Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported 76 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, taking its total tally to 10,085.
About 10,000 residents in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were put under lockdown Saturday in an unprecedented move to contain a worsening COVID-19 outbreak in the city.
The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 80 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 65 locally transmitted ones and 15 arriving from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Sunday.
China's consumer spending has been on track to fully recover from the ravage of COVID-19, with proven resilience in the tests in 2020 and new traits to watch this year.
The rates of new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths across the United States are on the decline this week, though some areas are still reporting wrenching death rates, according to a latest report of The COVID Tracking Project.
The ministry made the remarks after activists staged unauthorized protests in a number of Russian cities earlier in the day to show support for detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
A kindergarten in Shanghai has recently rolled out a series of "diet plans" to help obese kids lose weight, including special low-fat meals and exercise programs.
A leaking water pipe in a building in Weining County of Bijie City, Guizhou Province, has created an ice waterfall about 7 meters high.
To make postgraduate exam takers feel relaxed and wish them success in the postgraduate entrance examination, the canteen chefs of the university made some special cakes and provided them free of charge.
A young man named Zhang Zhilei has made a "fridge" out of ice cubes in Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
It's a widely known fact that Chinese people love mahjong, and have an appetite for sweet dumplings.
More than 8 million netizens watched a live webcast of robots sorting packages at 3 am in the morning on China's largest short-video platform Douyin, media reported.
The United States would seek a five-year extension of an expiring arms control treaty between Washington and Moscow, according to reports on Thursday.
The recruitment will be held in two rounds, one slated to start on Feb. 20 and end on March 31, while the other scheduled between Aug. 15 and Sept. 30, according to a statement issued after the conference.
The Pentagon on Friday confirmed that U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq had reduced to 2,500 respectively.
A military parade to commemorate the eighth party congress of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was held at Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang on Thursday evening.
Aviation Industry Corp of China, the nation's leading aircraft maker, is poised to develop a twin-seat version of its J-20 stealth fighter jet-China's most advanced combat plane, according to the State-owned conglomerate.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Monday that Russia and the United States should extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) and adjust their nuclear doctrines.
China aims to build 30 "fully connected" 5G factories in 10 key industries by 2023, as the country has fast-tracked industrial Internet development through integration with 5G technologies.
China has collected around 100PB (about 100 million GB) of Earth observation data, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
With the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to rage in Hong Kong, construction of the temporary North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Center reached completion on Jan. 20.
China has urged Sweden to immediately correct its wrong practice of excluding Chinese firms from the construction of 5G network in the European country.
CoronaVac, an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd., has shown good efficacy in clinical trials and can offer broad-spectrum protection against different coronavirus strains.
China's indigenously-developed C919 large passenger aircraft has successfully conducted cold-weather test flights in Hulunbuir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local authorities said Thursday.
Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes announced on Thursday the cancellation of this year's carnival due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Oscar-winning Japanese composer and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto on Thursday revealed his diagnosis of rectal cancer and the completion of surgery via his official account on China's Twitter-like social platform Weibo.
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old Greek inscription, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Wednesday.
The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) will issue a special-event stamp sheet to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) will issue a special set of stamps to commemorate the Year of the Ox in the Chinese lunar calendar, which will begin on February 12.
A building unearthed in ruins discovered 18 kilometers north of Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, may have been the place Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin Dynasty (221 BC-206 BC) and China’s first emperor, held court.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japan reiterated on Friday their commitment to hosting the Tokyo Olympics this year and denied a report of a possible cancellation.
The ice-making work at the National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the "Ice Ribbon," was completed for the first time, making the iconic Beijing Winter Olympic venue ready for test competitions, the Beijing Major Projects Construction Headquarters Office announced on Friday.
Three-time Grand Slam winner Andy Murray has withdrawn from this year's Australian Open after failing to find a "workable quarantine" due to a positive test for COVID-19 earlier this month.
IBF title-holder Josh Warrington is a "30-year-old baby" who only dares to fight at home, said Chinese WBA champion Xu Can here on Friday.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president John Coates has refuted reports that the Tokyo Games could be canceled, saying on Friday there had been no discussion among organizers either to cancel or postpone the games.
President Xi Jinping's recent inspection on Beijing 2022 preparations has sent a reassuring signal to the sporting world that China is determined to deliver an excellent Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in one year's time.
The Memphis Zoo of U.S. state Tennessee said Thursday that two giant pandas living in its facility are "healthy" amid emerging concern over their conditions.
A nature reserve in Northwest China's Gansu province has captured wild giant pandas kissing in the woods using an infrared camera.
Berlin Zoo has decorated a Christmas tree with fruit for four pandas to enjoy.
The Berlin Zoo has prepared a Christmas tree decorated with fruit for the panda family on the Christmas Eve.
Xinxing, the world's oldest captive giant panda, died at a zoo in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Dec. 8, the zoo announced Monday. She was 38.
As part of the Yolka Zhelany (Christmas Tree of Wishes) campaign, Russian President Vladimir Putin has fulfilled a wish of the boy who wanted to hug a panda.