China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.2 percent year on year in January, official data showed on Wednesday. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed the consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent ...

President Xi Jinping visited primary-level officials and residents in Beijing during a two-day inspection tour from Monday to Tuesday, extending Spring Festival greetings to Chinese people at home and abroad ahead of the festival. Xi, also general s...

China will work to promote the adoption of an outcome document that is clear in direction and rich in content at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Leaders' Meeting to be held in Shenzhen later this year, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. Wan...

The State Council Information Office on Monday released a white paper on the "persistent" fight to safeguard national security in Hong Kong, saying it wants to clear up any confusion and misunderstandings surrounding the issue. The 17-page document ...

The Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Jimmy Lai's 20-year prison sentence was legitimate and reasonable, given his three convictions of colluding with foreign forces and publishing seditious materials. Spokesman Lin Jian stressed the SAR is gove...

An explosion at a biotech factory in Shanxi province has claimed eight lives. The blast occurred at a workshop of the Jiapeng biotech company in Shanyin County, Shuozhou City, on Saturday. The firm's legal representative has been taken into custody...

Defending Olympic champion Su Yiming delivered China's first medal of the Winter Olympics on Saturday, claiming bronze in a fiercely contested men's snowboard big air final defined by soaring difficulty. With consistency proving decisive in the high...

President Xi Jinping has congratulated Laura Fernandez on her election as president of Costa Rica. Xi said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations 18 years ago, China and Costa Rica had made rapid progress in bilateral ties, with fruitf...

President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that he hopes to work with US President Donald Trump in the new year to steer the giant ship of China-US relations steadily forward through wind and storms, and accomplish more big things and good things, a Xinh...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said that China and Russia should increase high-level exchanges and strengthen pragmatic cooperation in various fields. Xi was speaking to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a virtual meeting, when he not...

The director of Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong, Zhou Ji, on Wednesday said the central government will continue to support the SAR in integrating into and serving the overall national development. Speaking at a reception organised by the of...

Speed skater Ning Zhongyan and short track speed skater Zhang Chutong will serve as China's flagbearers at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation announced on Wednesday. Ning, 26, won three golds ...

Mainland companies can use Hong Kong as a strong jumping-off point for their push to go global, said the director general of the Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises, Peter Yan. Speaking after Hong Kong Productivity Council's ForeSight 2026...

CK Hutchison said its subsidiary Panama Ports Company (PPC) has started international arbitration proceedings against Panama after the country's top court annulled a concession allowing it to operate ports at the Panama Canal. "The board strongly di...

President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday China and Uruguay should boost cooperation in various areas, including trade and infrastructure construction, in talks with visiting Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi in Beijing. According to Xinhua News Agency, X...

China on Monday executed four leading members of Myanmar-based scam syndicates. They were members of the Bai family criminal group based in northern Myanmar, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court said in a statement. The four had been sentenced ...

A total of 19 people received jail terms ranging from six years and six months to two years on Monday for their roles in a fire that killed 29 and injured 42 at a Beijing hospital in 2023. The Fengtai District People's Court in Beijing announced fir...

The Spring Festival travel rush began in China on Monday as the country ushered in its largest annual population migration. A total of 9.5 billion passenger trips are expected this year, which will be a historic high, according to Xinhua News Agency...

Alibaba said on Monday it would spend three billion yuan to attract users to its Qwen AI app during the Lunar New Year holiday, heating up a race between China's largest tech firms. The pledge by Alibaba, which triples the spending promised earlier ...

China's top diplomat Wang Yi met with Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, in Beijing on Sunday. Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of t...