Latest China News
RSS-
Top North Korean Envoy Holds Talks in China
An envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Chinese officials on Wednesday in the first such talks since Kim succeeded his late father, Kim Jong Il, Chinese state media said. Choe Ryong Hae, a military leader with close ties to the Kim family, met Wang Jiarui, head of the Chinese Communist Party's international department. Diplomatic meetings between China and North Korea are ...
-
Kim’s envoy visits Beijing
Choe Ryong-hae (center), director of the Korean People's Army politburo, leaves Pyongyang airport to visit China as a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un Wednesday. Choe, a top official and confidant of Kim Jong-un, on Wednesday met a senior Chinese official in Beijing ahead of a China-US summit.Photo: ...
-
Chinas world tour Li Keqiang and Xi Jinping make the global rounds
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang steps down from his plane upon arrival at Pakistan's Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi on May 22, 2013. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang vowed to strengthen his country's partnership with Pakistan as he arrived for a visit less than two weeks after the country's general election. The long-time allies will look to use the two-day trip to boost trade ties, and Li ...
More China News
RSS-
China cuts power prices in agricultural sector
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Electricity prices for all businesses in agricultural production and logistics will be cut from June 1, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced on Wednesday. Pork and vegetable producers will now enjoy the same electricity prices as other agricultural production businesses, which were already benefiting from preferential costs, the commission ...
-
UPDATE 1-Sovereign funds and Chinese bank buy into Russias VTB
Wed May 22, 2013 1:56pm EDT * State stake diluted to 60.9 pct from 75.5 pct * VTB raised $3.3 bln from the deal, to bolster capital * VTB sees 2013 net profit at over 100 bln rbls, its highest ever MOSCOW, May 22 (Reuters) - The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan and China Construction Bank have bought about 55 percent of the new shares on offer from VTB, Russia's ...
-
Pakistans Gwadar port to be connected to China via road rail and air
Islamabad: In a significant move, China today signed a pact with Pakistan which will connect the latter's strategically important port of Gwadar to it via rail, road and air routes. The crucial deal was inked during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Islamabad today.China had taken over operations at the port earlier this year, a move that had upset India.Once complete, the port, ...
-
Adorably Chubby Mini-Spider Species Discovered in China
) Tiny spiders with oversized rumps have been discovered in China. The little arachnids, each about a millimeter long, represent two new species of orb-weaving spider. They belong to the Mysmenidae family of orb-weavers, and are described May ...
-
Analysis From opera to exercises U.S. and China deepen military ties
Musicians from the military bands of China's People's Liberation Army and the U.S. Army take photos during a rehearsal for their joint concert at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, in this October 29, 2012 file ...
-
Father of Three Beaten to Death By Chinese Family Planning Officials
More than 20 Family Planning Officials beat a farmer almost to death, because he and his wife have three children, according to a report by ChinaAid. Zhang Futao has suffered severe head injuries and is in critical condition from the beating, which occurred on Wednesday, May 15. According to the family, he has a fractured skull and a brain hemorrhage. His three children are ages 12, 6 and 4. ...
-
China Pak ink economic corridor boundary accords
Pakistan and China today inked several agreements and memoranda of understanding, including a pact on a system to manage the border between Xinjiang autonomous region and Gilgit-Baltistan ...
-
North Korean special envoy meets with Chinese party official
Kim Jong Un sent one of his closest advisers to Beijing Wednesday as a "special envoy" amid signs of a fraying alliance, officials say. Choe Ryong Hae, vice marshal of the Korean People's Army, met with Wang Jiarui, a senior official of the Chinese Communist Party, The Washington Post reported, ...
-
World Briefing | Asia Gold Mine Discovered in Northwest China
BEIJING ...
-
Chinas Artist Provocateur Explores New Medium Heavy Metal
The video for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's newly released song starts by re-creating the conditions of his captivity during the 81 days he was held in police detention in 2011, later dissolving into a dystopian ...
-
Chapman brothers exhibit hanged Ronald McDonald in Hong Kong
What can only be described as grotesque by conservative art connoisseurs is beauty for the Chapman brothers. By the looks of their work, it seems that they create art to shock regular ...
-
voice saying that China will not support India’s bid to be a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
"Having India as a permanent member may add to Tokyo's influence." Wang Dehua, a South Asian studies specialist at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies,saying that China will not support India's bid to be a permanent member of the UN Security Council, quoted by the South China Morning Post on ...
-
Ties with Pakistan aid China’s soft power
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his entourage flew from India to Pakistan yesterday for a two-day visit. The plane was escorted by six Pakistani Air Force JF-17 fighter jets after entering Pakistani airspace. Both Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso welcomed Li at the airport in person, which clearly reflects the "all-weather" ...
-
China tobacco control 2nd worst
China ranks second to last among developing countries on tobacco control, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report that is due to be made public by China's authorities at the end of this month. With a total score of 44.6, China ranks the 13th among 14 nations that have reported their progress to the WHO on implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It ...
-
Jailed ATM cash thief appeals to Guangdong high court to restore reputation
Xu Ting, a migrant worker who was jailed for five years on theft charges, has appealed to the high court in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, in a bid to restore his reputation. Xu, 30, was originally given a life sentence for theft after making 171 withdrawals from a Guangzhou Commercial Bank automatic teller machine (ATM) totaling 175,000 yuan ($28,543) in 2006, when his account was only debited ...
-
Philippine activity on Ren’ai Reef draws Chinese caution
Chinese navy and marine surveillance forces are closely monitoring activities conducted by the Philippines on a vessel stranded on the Ren'ai Reef in the South China Sea, a source close to the matter told the Global Times.The Philippines filed a protest with the Chinese embassy in Manila Tuesday that the recent presence of a Chinese warship and two marine surveillance vessels near the reef ...
-
China Pakistan to work on energy ties
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday on his first official visit to Pakistan, marking the second leg of Li's first overseas tour since taking office.The trip, which came on the heels of the election of Pakistan's new prime minister Nawaz Sharif, reaffirms the time-tested all-weather friendship between China and Pakistan and serves the interests of the two ...
-
China Pakistan plan economic corridor Li
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday linked growth in his country's restive west with that in sluggish Pakistan, saying the two sides wanted to create an "economic corridor" to boost development. Li, on his first overseas trip since taking over in a once-in-a-decade power transfer in Beijing, congratulated Pakistan on its recent general election and hailed the countries' ...
-
China unveils details of pilot carbon-trading programme
unveiled details of its first pilot carbon-trading programme, which will begin next month in the southern city of Shenzhen.The trading scheme will cover 638 companies responsible for 38% of the city's total emissions, the Shenzhen branch of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission ...
-
Pope Makes Appeal For Catholics in China
At the end of his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis made an appeal to Catholics all over the world to prayer for our ';brother and sisters'; in ...
-
Chinas Momentous Change From Center of Trade to Center of Investment
Orville Schell : When many of us came into the the story of U.S.-China relations, the currency of the realm was politics. When Henry [Kissinger] went to China, there was no economics to deal with. So, it was a political question. Without really noticing it, we've undergone an extraordinary transmigration from the currency of politics to, really, the currency of currency. We talked ...
-
Chinese Artist Ai Weiweis Heavy Metal Video Re-creates His Prison Stay
new music video is a re-creation of his prison environment right down to the wallpaper. It's a promotion for "Dumbass," the first single from his first music album. According to ...
Shanghai Focus
-
Shanghai looking ahead to future
Shanghai is the commercial capital of China and the most populous city in the People’s Republic, with origins as a small fishing village, the city has grown into a global city with fingers that stretch across the world, exerting global influence over international cultural, commercial and political scenes. With major projects and programs underway, the future looks bright for Shanghai.
It was recently reported by international, Chinese and Shanghai news media that China had eclipsed Japan as the second-largest economy in the world. China’s GDP and economic activity has surpassed that of Japan for many decades, but the announcement was made on the back of a range of factors including imports and exports and the human development index within major cities such as Shanghai. Read more
News from around our Network
