At least 20 people were trapped after an explosion on Friday caused a building housing a government canteen to collapse in Chongqing. The blast at 12:10pm was caused by a "suspected gas leak" in a canteen and caused a neighbourhood committee buildin...

The National Health Commission has confirmed another 116 locally transmitted Covid-19 infections in its daily report on Friday, according to the Xinhua New Agency. Shaanxi - where the provincial capital Xi'an remains in lockdown - accounted for 57 o...

More cities and areas in Henan have resorted to tough curbs as the central province reported 64 new locally-transmitted coronavirus infections, 50 of them in Xuchang. Nine asymptomatic carriers were also identified, most of them in the provincial cap...

The National Health Commission has confirmed another 35 cases of locally-transmitted Covid-19 in Shaanxi, where the huge city of Xi'an has been locked down for nearly two weeks. In total 41 community infections were reported today, according to the ...

The death toll from a landslide that hit Bijie City in Guizhou province on Monday has climbed to 14, Xinhua News Agency quoted local authorities as saying. The landslide took place at a construction site at around 7pm on Monday, Xinhua said. . As of...

More than one million people in a city in central China were being confined to their homes on Tuesday after three asymptomatic coronavirus cases were recorded in the country's latest mass lockdown. Beijing has pursued a "zero Covid" approach with t...

Fifteen people were injured when a shallow earthquake hit southwestern China on Sunday afternoon and shook the popular tourist city of Lijiang. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Yunnan Province at 3:02pm, according to the provincial seismological ...

Three mainland astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station chatted with youngsters from Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing via video conference on Saturday to mark the start of 2022. The three - Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu - arrived at ...

The mainland reported 231 new confirmed coronavirus cases for December 31, up from 195 a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Saturday. Of the new infections, 175 were locally transmitted, according to a statement by the National Heal...

President Xi Jinping has on Friday described 2021 as "a year of exceptional significance", in his New Year address aired on New Year’s Eve. “We have lived through landmark events in the history of our Party and our country. At the historical co...

Chinese authorities have banned footballers from getting tattoos and instructed national team players who have been inked to remove or cover them up to set a "good example for society". A growing number of high-profile Chinese players have been spor...

The mainland on Monday recorded 182 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday. Of the new local cases, 180 were reported in Shaanxi, and one each in Zhejiang and Yunnan, the commission...

Xi'an tightened curbs on travel within the city on Monday as it started a new round of testing on the fifth day of a lockdown of its 13 million people. Xi'an reported 150 new local symptomatic coronavirus cases for Sunday, a slight drop from the pre...

Taikonauts who are working on the nation's first space station have taken part in the second spacewalk of their mission since arriving on the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft in October, official media has reported. Broadcaster CCTV reported that Ye Guangfu ...

A man died and a rescue operation was under way for at least two others who went missing after a mainland fishing vessel caught fire and capsized just outside Hong Kong waters off Sai Kung on Sunday. Local police said their mainland counterparts re...

The mainland reported its highest daily rise in local Covid-19 cases in 21 months as infections more than doubled in the northwestern city of Xi'an, the country's latest Covid hot spot. The city of 13 million, which entered its fourth day of lockdow...

China reported 140 new confirmed coronavirus cases for December 24, up from 87 a day earlier, the health authority said on Saturday. Of the new infections, 87 were locally transmitted, according to a statement by the National Health Commission, comp...

Japan will not send a government delegation to February's Winter Olympics in Beijing, it said on Friday. Responding to Tokyo's move, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular news conference that China welcomes Olympic officials and athl...

The annual "two sessions" meetings are set for the first week of March next year. According to a decision by the National People's Congress Standing Committee on Friday, the 13th NPC will kick off its fifth annual session in Beijing on March 5, 2022...

A day after enforcing a strict lockdown on 13 million people in Xi'an - the ancient capital of Shaanxi - mainland officials have reported 52 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases in the province. On Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported 127 peo...