Former vice minister of public security Sun Lijun has been removed from his post and expelled from the Communist Party for corruption. The announcement by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission on T...

President Xi Jinping paid his respects at a solemn commemoration Thursday to those who died in the struggle to establish Communist Party rule. President Xi and the six other members of the Politburo Standing Committee led aged veterans and governme...

China has urged banks to steady the housing market and avoid speculation as fears mount that Evergrande's debt crisis could spill over into the property sector. Saddled with more than US$300 billion in liabilities that it is struggling to repay, th...

Goldman Sachs Tuesday lowered its annual economic growth forecast for China as nationwide power cuts hit millions of homes and halted production at factories, including some supplying Apple and Tesla. At least 17 provinces and regions – accountin...

In achieving a moderately prosperous society, China has gained new experience of modernisation for humanity, said a white paper released by the State Council Information Office on Tuesday. The country's experience offers a new option for those co...

The State Grid Corporation of China said on Monday that it would take comprehensive measures to ensure people's basic power usage demand and would try its best to avoid the situation of power cuts. The company will coordinate the deployment of resou...

Macau authorities are testing all 680,000 people in the special administrative region, after two security guards working in a quarantine hotel were confirmed with the coronavirus. Officials have said they aim to complete the testing in 72 hours, st...

China's HNA Group, once one of the country's most acquisitive conglomerates, said on Friday that its chairman and its chief executive had been taken away by police due to suspected criminal offences. The company, which was placed in bankruptcy admin...

President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad, using his address at the United Nations General Assembly to add to pledges to deal with climate change. Xi provided no details, but depending on ho...

US President Joe Biden's nominee to a post overseeing export policy on China said on Tuesday he sees Chinese telecoms firm Huawei as a national security threat and expects to keep the company on a trade blacklist unless "things change." If confirmed...

China's economy can cope with the fallout from the possible collapse of debt-riddled property giant Evergrande and contagion to other markets would be limited, the OECD's chief economist said Tuesday. Global markets have seesawed this week over fear...

Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, has brought in a number of social distancing measures after a new local Covid-19 case was reported in the city, Xinhua reported. The new rules cover cinemas, bars, theatres, indoor playgrounds, gyms, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged China and the United States to engage in dialogue, warning of an increasingly divided world. "I fear our world is creeping towards two different sets of economic, trade, financial and technology...

Mainland authorities on Saturday reported 43 new locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases, all in Fujian Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. Also reported were 23 new imported cases, including nine in Yunnan, three...

China will make its due contribution to humanity's ultimate victory over the Covid-19 pandemic, President Xi Jinping said on Friday. Xi made the remark via video link in Beijing while addressing the 21st meeting of the Council of Heads of State of t...

Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Friday after completing the country's longest-ever crewed mission. The capsule carrying the three astronauts was suspended on a parachute and landed in the Gobi desert at 1:35 pm local time. The crew of the S...

The government of Macau has expressed strong opposition to and deep regret over a so-called report passed by the European Parliament, Xinhua News Agency reports. Regarding references to Macau in the European Parliament's so-called new EU-China strat...

China is ready to join hands with Belarus to lift the friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries to a higher level, says Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Wang made the remarks during a meeting with Belarusian Foreign Minister ...

Beijing on Thursday slammed a new US alliance with Australia and Britain, under which Canberra will acquire nuclear submarine technology, as an "extremely irresponsible" threat to regional stability. The agreement "seriously undermines regional peac...

Three people were killed and dozens injured when a shallow earthquake struck Sichuan province in the early hours of Thursday, triggering the second-highest level of emergency response by rescuers, mainland media said. The quake struck Luxian county ...