China will show off its homegrown civil and military aviation technology at the country's biggest air show in November, the mayor of host city Zhuhai said on Tuesday, though there was no confirmation that would include the C919 narrowbody jet. The C...

Profits at China's industrial firms shrank at a faster pace in January-August, as Covid restrictions and a deepening property slump weighed on domestic demand and heatwaves curbed factory activity. Profits fell 2.1 percent in the first eight months ...

Beijing on Sunday said all delegates for next month's 20th Party Congress have been elected. CCTV reported that a total of 2,296 delegates had been picked for the twice-in-a-decade political conclave. The delegates will be tasked with picking aro...

Beijing supports all efforts conducive to the peaceful resolution of the "crisis" in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the United Nations General Assembly, adding that the pressing priority was to facilitate peace talks. "The fundamental soluti...

A section of a flyover under construction on Saturday collapsed onto the traffic below in Guangdong province, injuring one person. The section in question - part of the Xijiang Bridge - is located between the cities of Zhongshan and Jiangmen. Aut...

Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat-seng said on Saturday that the city will hopefully be able to receive mainland tour groups again from November. At a press conference, he said he made the request because mainland visitors are very important to the loca...

A former top security official faces life in jail after a mainland court on Friday hit him with a suspended death sentence for bribery and other crimes. The death sentence of Sun Lijun, former vice minister of public security, will be commuted to li...

A court in northern China sentenced one man to 24 years in jail on Friday for his role in a vicious attack on four women, as well as other crimes including robbery and opening an illegal gambling ring. The Guangyang District People's Court in Hebei ...

Australia is aiming for a stable relationship with China despite differences in particular on trade, Australia's foreign minister said, as she called on China to use its influence as a great power to help end the war in Ukraine. Australian Foreign M...

The former justice minister on the mainland faces life in prison, after a court handed him a suspended death sentence on Thursday for taking bribes and "bending the law". Fu Zhenghua's death sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment after a two...

A Chinese worker who tended to his injured colleagues following a deadly earthquake and then got lost in the mountains in the province of Sichuan has been rescued 17 days later. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck the southwestern province earlier this ...

Beijing's position on Ukraine will continue to be "objective" and "fair", foreign minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. China hopes that all partie...

Beijing on Wednesday said it will do all it can to strive for a peaceful reunification with Taiwan, though it warned that it would have to resort to ‘assertive measures’ if separatists and external forces ‘cross the red line’. Asked about t...

China could launch commercial suborbital spaceflights by 2025, with each ticket expected to cost two to three million yuan, according to state media. A senior rocket scientist and founder of CAS Space, a Beijing-based rocket company, told the Global...

Beijing has issued draft rules aimed at making it easier for some foreigners to enter the mainland for visits to tourism sites along the Chinese border. Travel groups organised by tour agencies in border areas in the mainland can choose their port o...

The southwestern metropolis of Chengdu on Tuesday reported no new locally transmitted Covid-19 infections on September 19, when millions of people emerged from a coronavirus lockdown that had closed schools, disrupted businesses and forced residents ...

China kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged at a monthly fixing on Tuesday, in line with expectations, as authorities appeared to hold off immediate monetary easing following recent rapid yuan declines. The one-year loan prime rate (LPR) was ke...

Vice President Wang Qishan is on Monday attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as the special representative of President Xi Jinping. He's among hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries attending the state funeral at Westminster Abbey in Londo...

The Foreign Ministry said on Monday it has lodged "stern representations" with the United States after US President Joe Biden said American forces would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by the mainland, his most explicit statement so far on th...

The victims of a bus crash which killed 27 people and injured a further 20 in southwest China's Guizhou province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for Covid reasons, local media reported. The accident took plac...