China on Friday eased some of its Covid-19 restrictions, including shortening quarantines by two days for inbound travellers and close contacts of infected people and removing a penalty for airlines for bringing in too many cases. The loosening of t...

Mainland authorities have stepped up Covid-19 lockdowns and other curbs to halt clusters from spreading as the nation's caseload soared to its highest since this year's Shanghai lockdown, with Beijing and Zhengzhou seeing record daily cases. China r...

US President Joe Biden will meet on Monday with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s Group of 20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, a face-to-face meeting that comes amid increasingly strained China-US relations, the White House announced o...

Mainland authorities on Thursday destroyed a giant haul of counterfeit products purporting to be from brands such as Nike and Louis Vuitton at an event held across 17 provinces and cities, broadcaster CCTV reported. In all, 3,000 tonnes of counterfe...

US leader Joe Biden on Wednesday said he would ask President Xi Jinping about his "red lines" to reduce the potential for conflict amid soaring tensions over Taiwan when they gather next week in Bali. A day before flying to Asia, Biden indirectly co...

Bao Tong, who served as secretary to the former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, died on Wednesday morning in Beijing. He was 90. Writing on social media, his children said Bao passed away peacefully. Bao was born in Zhejiang province in 1932 ...

China's factory gate prices for October dropped for the first time since December 2020, as falling global commodity prices made their mark on the nation’s economy. The producer price index (PPI) fell 1.3 percent year-on-year, reversing from a 0.9 ...

A scaled-down version of the nation's biggest air show, showcasing the domestically-produced C919 passenger jet, opened on Tuesday. The event comes as virus case numbers on the mainland reached their highest level in six months, with the organisers ...

China's super-rich saw their wealth tumble by the most in over two decades this year, as the Russia-Ukraine war, Beijing's zero-Covid measures and falling mainland and Hong Kong stock markets pummelled fortunes, an annual rich list said on Tuesday. ...

The nation's exports shrank in October, the first such decline since mid-2020, customs authorities said on Monday, as a domestic slowdown and the threat of global recession hit international trade. Exports fell 0.3 percent year-on-year in October, a...

Apple said Covid restrictions have "temporarily impacted" production at the world's largest iPhone factory in central China, warning that customers will now face longer wait times ahead of the holiday season. Foxconn, Apple's principal subcontractor...

Guangdong province on Sunday reported 1,582 new local Covid infections – up from 888 the day before – with authorities offering door-to-door PCR tests in a district in Guangzhou where most of the cases were found. Most of the recent Covid infect...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced an agreement on Friday to let expatriates on the mainland use the Covid-19 vaccine from Germany's BioNTech and pressed for Beijing to allow the shot to be made freely available to Chinese citizens. On his firs...

President Xi Jinping said the German chancellor's visit to Beijing will "deepen practical cooperation" between the two countries as he met Olaf Scholz in Beijing on Friday. Xi said he believed the visit would "enhance mutual understanding and mutual...

Shenzhou-14 astronauts have entered the Mengtian lab module of China's under-construction space station, Tiangong. According to the China Manned Space Agency, the Shenzhou-14 crew entered Mengtian at 3:12pm on Thursday, Beijing time. The agency sai...

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said on Wednesday it was shutting its news bureau in Beijing after waiting two years in vain for a China work permit for its journalists. The publicly owned news outlet had numerous exchanges with Chinese offici...

The nation will be able to maintain normal monetary policy and positive interest rates for as long as possible with its potential economic growth likely to stay within a reasonable range, its central bank governor said. The world's second-biggest ec...

A vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), Fang Xinghai, told the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit on Wednesday that Hong Kong plays an important role in the further growth of the mainland economy, such as develo...

An industral park in Zhengzhou that hosts an iPhone factory belonging to Foxconn announced a fresh Covid-19 lockdown on Wednesday. The Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone in central China said it would impose "silent management" measures with immediate e...

The Mengtian lab module has successfully docked with the under-construction Tiangong space station. Mengtian, which was blasted into space on Monday afternoon, docked with Tianhe, the space station's core module, at 4:27am on Tuesday Beijing time af...