KUNMING, China, Sept. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The 2025 Global South Media and Think Tank Forum opened Saturday in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Fu Hua, president of Xinhua News Agency, addresses the opening ceremony of the 2025 Global South Media and Think Tank Forum in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Sept. 6,…
China and Pakistan have pledged to expand trade and deepen technological cooperation in areas ranging from agriculture to space exploration, at a time when Islamabad is warming to the United States. During a meeting on Thursday with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Premier Li Qiang said Beijing would advance the second phase of the China-Pakistan…
BEIJING (AP) — Strong winds and heavy rain whipped southern China’s Hainan island and nearby parts of Guangdong province on Sunday, as Typhoon Kajiki passed over open waters to the south and headed toward Vietnam’s central coast. About 20,000 people were evacuated from potentially hazardous areas ahead of the storm, China’s official Xinhua News Agency…
BEIJING (AP) — The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and left four others missing, state media reports said. Aerial photos from the official Xinhua News Agency show a large section missing from the bridge’s curved aquamarine arch. A bent section of the…
China announced that it will start handing out childcare subsidies across the nation, in its latest push to boost birthrates after a worrying drop in recent years. The government will spend 3,600 yuan ($502) a year per child under age three, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The assistance, effective retrospectively from Jan. 1…
Ursula von der Leyen called on China to open up its market and rectify over-capacity issues as a one-day summit between the European Union and China closed with minimal progress. Speaking in Beijing following a meeting with Chinese President Xi jinping, the head of the European Commission warned that it will be “very difficult” for…
China’s top leadership has pledged to curb aggressive price competition among businesses, aiming to accelerate efforts toward a unified national market to help boost domestic demand. Officials at a high-level economic meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping said they would crack down on “disorderly” low-price competition and phase out outdated industrial capacity, Xinhua News Agency…
BEIJING (AP) — China plans to hold a military parade Sept. 3 marking the 80th anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender and featuring the People’s Liberation Army’s newest weaponry. President and head of the military Xi Jinping will deliver a speech on the occasion, which will feature “new-type combat capabilities,” including hypersonic weapons and…
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently commemorated the 120th birth anniversary of Chen Yun, one of the foundational economic planners of the Communist Party of China. Amid the commemoration’s celebratory tone, Xi’s speech signals a rhetorical shift. The references to communist conviction so prominent in the 2015 address delivered for Chen’s 110th birthday were relatively sparse…
By Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Saturday “the market has spoken” in rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, and called on Washington for “equal-footed consultation” after global markets plunged in reaction to the trade levies that drew Chinese retaliation. State-run Xinhua news agency also published the Chinese government’s stance, saying the U.S. should…