President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for solid efforts to secure a good start to the 15th Five-Year Plan. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, ma...

China never deliberately pursued a trade surplus and is willing to be "the world's market", Vice Premier He Lifeng told the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Tuesday. "We are not only willing to be the world's factory, but also, more eagerly, to be the ...

The British government has given approval for China to build its largest embassy in Europe in London. Local Government Secretary Steve Reed formally approved plans for the building on the site of the two-century-old Royal Mint Court near the Tower o...

China has demanded that Afghanistan do more to protect Chinese citizens after a bombing at a restaurant in Kabul killed at least seven people, including a Chinese man. Speaking at a regular press briefing on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo J...

China has received an invitation from the United States to join US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace for Gaza", Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday. Guo did not specify whether Beijing would accept the invitation. The board...

The death toll has risen to nine from a blast at a steel plant in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with one other person still unaccounted for as rescue efforts continue, local authorities said on Tuesday. The explosion took place at 3.03pm on Sund...

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Tuesday released a package of measures to spur private investment and consumption, including a special guarantee programme for corporate lending and interest subsidies for personal consumption loans. This special gua...

China's birth rate fell last year to its lowest level on record, official data showed on Monday. A total of 7.92 million births were recorded in 2025, officials said, a rate of 5.63 births per thousand people. It marked the lowest birth rate since ...

Helping the SAR to get in line with the country's 15th Five-Year Plan on a proactive basis and mainland enterprises to go global will be the focus of the 19th Asian Financial Forum (AFF) when it starts at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centr...

The return capsule of the Shenzhou-20 spaceship, carrying no astronauts, touched down at the Dongfeng landing site in the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 9.34am on Monday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). An on-site in...

China's gross domestic product grew five percent in 2025, meeting the annual target, official data showed on Monday, hitting 140 trillion yuan as the world's second-largest economy maintained its resilience during the year despite external and intern...

An explosion at a factory in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Sunday killed two people, left five others missing and sent 66 to hospitals, according to local authorities. The blast occurred at around 3pm at a plate plant of Baogang United Steel i...

China is proposing to host the secretariat of a new treaty governing the high seas. China "has decided to present its candidature of the city of Xiamen to host the Secretariat" of the treaty, the Chinese mission to the United Nations wrote in a lett...

Faced with new global challenges, the leaders of China and Canada pledged on Friday to improve relations between their two nations. President Xi Jinping told visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that he was willing to continue working to imp...

President Xi Jinping said on Friday that the China-Canada relations is developing in a healthy and stable manner since he met with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney last year. Speaking during a meeting with Carney in Beijing, Xi said their meeting...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday hailed the leadership of President Xi Jinping and the speed of progress in bilateral ties, declaring that the stage was set for both nations to become strategic partners across many fields. Carney's op...

Chinese Go master Nie Weiping died at the age of 73 in Beijing on Wednesday night, the Chinese Weiqi (Go) Association announced on Thursday. Born on August 17, 1952, Nie rose to fame in the Go world after leading China to victories at the China-Japa...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a four-day state visit. Carney, who is expected to meet President Xi Jinping for talks on Friday, is the first Canadian leader to visit China in eight years. Aside from Xi, Car...

The State Administration for Market Regulation in Beijing said on Wednesday that it had launched an investigation into Trip.com Group's alleged monopolistic practices involving abuse of market dominance. It said that following preliminary checks and...

China said on Wednesday trade last year reached a "new historical high", increasing 3.8 percent. "In 2025, China's total import and export value of goods reached 45.47 trillion yuan, marking a year-on-year increase of 3.8 percent," said vice customs...