China cuts down payments, mortgage rates
(ECNS) -- China's top financial regulators announced Thursday to lower down payments for both first- and second-time homebuyers, aiming to promote healthy and steady development of the real estate market. The minimum down payment will be uniformly set at 20 percent for first-time buyers and 30 pe......(12866)人阅读时间:2023-09-02China to comprehensively strengthen environmental infrastructure
China has unveiled an action plan for comprehensive improvement of the country's environmental infrastructure. The action plan, which spans from 2023 to 2025, specifies six major tasks in terms of infrastructure construction, including the collection and treatment of domestic sewage and resource utiliz......(9301)人阅读时间:2023-08-28Wagner chief killed in plane crash
(ECNS) -- Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport confirmed on Wednesday that Wagner Group private military leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in the Tver Region near Moscow, capital of Russia. Prigozhin was among the 10 people killed in the crash. U.S. President Joe Biden has be......(12823)人阅读时间:2023-08-24Chinese envoy: UN DPRK rights debate may intensify conflict
China opposes the United Nations Security Council meeting on the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) because it "will only intensify the conflict", a Chinese envoy said on Thursday. The UN Charter stipulates that the primary responsibility of the Securit......(12687)人阅读时间:2023-08-19Highest wind farm powers Tibet's electricity grid
China's highest wind farm, located in the Tibet autonomous region, started power generation on Thursday, said its operator China Three Gorges Corp. With an installed capacity of 72.6 megawatts and a maximum single-unit capacity of 3.6 MW, the wind power project is also China's largest ultra-high-al......(15099)人阅读时间:2023-08-04China's light-industry added value goal set at around 4%
(ECNS) --The annual growth goal in China's light-industry added value has been set at around 4 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to a plan released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Commerce. Accor......(13576)人阅读时间:2023-07-30China's FAST Telescope discovers over 800 pulsars
(ECNS) -- The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, FAST, in south China’s Guizhou Province, has discovered over 800 new pulsars as of Tuesday, according to FAST’s Operations and Development Center. FAST has achieved notable success this year. Its findings, including the discov......(13412)人阅读时间:2023-07-26Japanese companies willing to expand in Chinese market
The Chinese path to modernization will provide broader growth opportunities for Japanese companies and the Chinese government to create a more favorable environment for global businesses investing in China, said the country's top commerce official. During his meeting on Monday in Beijing with Yasuhiro ......(13576)人阅读时间:2023-07-18Beijing preps for full operation of new metro line
The northern section of the Beijing Metro Line 17 has started its debugging, and it is expected to go into no-load operation in the third quarter and become operational by the end of this year. With a total length of 49.97 kilometers and 21 stations, Beijing Metro Line 17 is fully underground and runs thro......(13524)人阅读时间:2023-07-13PLA dismisses fears over Rocket Force capability
The United States' military need not worry about China's missile force if it does not make provocations or intimidation, a media outlet under the People's Liberation Army said. The PLA Daily said in a short editorial on Wednesday the PLA Rocket Force is the core pillar of China's strategic ......(15760)人阅读时间:2023-07-06Embracing cultural immersion: Nanjing's allure for foreign Gen Z travelers
(ECNS) -- The millennium-old Nanjing city and its classical literature offered young vloggers from Russia, Equatorial Guinea, Turkmenistan, El Salvador, and Bangladesh a unique opportunity to travel back in time and experience the ancient culture centuries ago. "If there were truly Shen Wansan's m......(13508)人阅读时间:2023-07-02Key work list outlines 164 initiatives aimed at improving free trade zones
China has released a key work list for its pilot free trade zones (2023-2025) aimed at promoting high-quality growth, according to a statement by the Ministry of Commerce on Sunday. The work list, formulated by the Ministry of Commerce in collaboration with a number of central government departments and lo......(13590)人阅读时间:2023-06-26Cathay Pacific to increase mandarin services, cabin crew on Chinese mainland flights
(ECNS) -- Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. will widen the use of Mandarin on flights and recruit more cabin crew from the Chinese mainland, its CEO Ronald Lam said on Monday. According to the CEO, the airline will deploy more cabin crew speaking mandarin on flights shuttling from Hong Kong Spe......(15490)人阅读时间:2023-06-20From cakes to stationery, gaokao spurs brisk business
As the nationwide college entrance exam, or gaokao, got underway on Wednesday with a record number of participants taking the test, businesses big and small seized the opportunity to cater to the needs of students and their families, and rake in profits. Zeng Jin, who runs a bakery in Harbin, Heilongjiang ......(13327)人阅读时间:2023-06-09Chinese scientist refutes BBC report on COVID lab leak
Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Microbiology, has questioned the legitimacy of a BBC report which quoted him as saying that the COVID lab leak theory has not been ruled out. Titled Covid: Top Chinese scientist says don't rule out lab leak, the BBC story claimed tha......(15317)人阅读时间:2023-06-04Minister of Industry and Information Technology meets with Elon Musk
Minister of Industry and Information Technology Jin Zhuanglong met with Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, in Beijing on Wednesday, exchanging views on the development of new energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles....(13088)人阅读时间:2023-06-01Chinese, U.S. commerce ministers hold talks in Washington
China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo held talks in Washington on Thursday, engaging in frank, professional and constructive exchanges on China-U.S. economic and trade relations as well as issues of common concern. The Chinese side expressed deep concerns over ......(8701)人阅读时间:2023-05-26Li stresses value of modern industry
Premier Li Qiang has underlined the importance of accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system underpinned by the real economy, and adopting more targeted measures to expand domestic needs while stabilizing external demand, in an effort to sustain economic recovery and growth. Li made the re......(7738)人阅读时间:2023-05-20U.S. repatriates two carved stone relics to China
(ECNS) -- On Tuesday afternoon local time, authorized by China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration, the Chinese Consulate-General in New York and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York held a handover ceremony, during which the US handed to the Chinese government two importan......(14996)人阅读时间:2023-05-13Three Parties to Build a “Cultural Digital Silk Road”
National Library, China Cultural Relics Exchange Center and DTXS Silk Road Investment Holdings Company Limited signed a cooperation agreement to build a “Cultural Digital Silk Road” May 10, the strategic cooperation signing ceremony of the National Library and DTXS Silk Road Investment Hold......(12747)人阅读时间:2023-05-12Nations push for safe development of nuclear energy
China launches relay satellite Queqiao 2
Myopia rate among Chinese children, teenagers falling
Foreign Ministry helped thousands of overseas Chinese, Wang says
GBA integration a focus of attention at CPPCC
China's first 'ground space station' passes acceptance review
U.S. draws flak for interfering in Taiwan affairs
China's top diplomat to attend Munich Security Conference, visit Spain and France
Nations push for safe development of nuclear energy
China launches relay satellite Queqiao 2
Myopia rate among Chinese children, teenagers falling
Foreign Ministry helped thousands of overseas Chinese, Wang says
GBA integration a focus of attention at CPPCC
China's first 'ground space station' passes acceptance review
U.S. draws flak for interfering in Taiwan affairs
China's top diplomat to attend Munich Security Conference, visit Spain and France