Some traditional Chinese medicines have long been used clinically and once evidence is available in the lab that they stop the novel coronavirus from entering cells or reducing the cytokine storm, they can be used safely in treating coronavirus infected p

The lander and rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have resumed work for the 15th lunar day on the far side of the moon after sleeping during the extremely cold night.

Families of medical staff who are fighting the novel coronavirus pneumonia will be taken care of by governments or other social groups if they need help.

With an increase of 1,749 over the course of Tuesday, total infections of the novel coronavirus on the Chinese mainland have reached 74,185, according to the National Health Commission.

China's daily new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus pneumonia outside Hubei, the epicenter province of the outbreak, have dropped for 14 consecutive days.

China's two sessions, the country's biggest annual political event, may be postponed this year due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

More than 85 percent of novel coronavirus pneumonia patients nationwide have received Traditional Chinese Medicine as a means of treatment, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine said on Monday.

A joint expert team consisting of experts from China and the World Health Organization Monday began field inspections on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus outbreak, a Chinese health official said Monday.

The 5G technology is playing an increasingly significant role in China’s recent battle against the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic.

The severity rate of people infected with the novel coronavirus has seen a significant decrease nationwide as of Saturday midnight, according to the country's health authority on Sunday.

There will be no peak period during this year's 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which will end on Tuesday, due to the ongoing novel coronavirus, the Ministry of Transport said over the weekend.

Favilavir, formerly known as Fapilavir, an antiviral that has shown efficacy in treating the novel coronavirus, was approved for marketing, the Taizhou government in Zhejiang province announced Sunday.

A senior National Health Commission official said Saturday that the bolstered efforts to treat critically ill patients have helped boost the recovery rate for the novel coronavirus pneumonia.

There won't be a travel peak for returnees in a traditional sense as this year's Spring Festival travel season is coming to an end soon, according to the vice-minister of transport Liu Xiaoming.

A 67-day-old baby on Saturday became China's youngest novel coronavirus pneumonia patient to be cured and discharged from hospital so far.

China has put some varieties of the vaccine for the novel coronavirus into animal tests as researchers are making their utmost efforts to shorten the development time period, a senior official with the Ministry of Science and Technology said on Saturday.

Central and local level governments will gather information on the production, sale, storage and processing ability of agricultural products across the country to ensure sufficient supply of necessities and maintain market stability, according to the Mini

With shops closed and theaters empty due to the coronavirus outbreak, lovers have been exchanging face masks and sanitizers on Valentine's Day rather than letters and chocolates as tokens of love.

The first child diagnosed with critical novel coronavirus pneumonia on the Chinese mainland has recovered and was discharged from a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday.

The use of cabin hospitals won't result in cross infection while it has achieved a good performance in treating the novel coronavirus pneumonia, a senior national health commission official said on Saturday.

China on Thursday commended people across the world, especially those young people who support the Chinese people in combating the novel coronavirus, expressing gratitude for their kindness and compassion.

The first child diagnosed with critical novel coronavirus pneumonia on the Chinese mainland has recovered and was discharged from a hospital in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on Thursday.

The team consists of 209 TCM experts from first tier hospitals in Tianjin, East China's Jiangsu, Central China's Henan and Hunan and North China's Shanxi provinces.

China's tech powerhouses are lending a helping hand in community management as the stringent supervision of population flows becomes critical to prevent the further spread of novel coronavirus pneumonia.

Chinese scientists are divided on the official scientific name of the novel coronavirus, with supporters saying the name is descriptive and follows typical classification practices, while others claiming it could easily be misunderstood and abused to caus

China's civil aviation authority has been stepping up efforts to ensure sufficient international flights to meet people's travel and business demands amid the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak.

Although infection by the novel coronavirus may have adverse effects on newborns, recent medical research has yet to confirm mother-to-baby transmission.

A revision in the diagnosis criteria for the novel coronavirus pneumonia in Hubei province has resulted in a sudden surge in the number of confirmed patients in the province on Wednesday, the provincial health commission said on Thursday.

China urged domestic companies conducting overseas business to tighten their management on the resumption of work, take epidemic prevention measures and make emergency plans, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

China unveiled measures on Tuesday to beef up support for medical workers devoted to curbing the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, including steps to improve their working conditions and ensure their mental and physical health.

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, Hubei province, where the novel coronavirus outbreak was first reported, lies only about 800 meters from Hankou Railway Station, one of the busiest in the city.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University announced on Tuesday it has developed new testing system for diagnosing the novel coronavirus within one hour.

China’s nationwide efforts in fighting the novel coronavirus epidemic show the country’s capability, strength and confidence in defeating the epidemic and its sense of responsibility to the world.

BEIJING -- An international team of researchers announced Monday that they have discovered an amber containing parts of an unusually large ancient bird wing dating back around 99 million years.

A candidate vaccine targeting the novel coronavirus has been tested on animals, according to a report Monday on news portal yicai.com, citing sources with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Chinese Nobel laureate Tu Youyou has been awarded the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences for her research into parasitic diseases.

China's mask production capacity is recovering steadily as producers race to resume production in full gear to ensure enough supply for control of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Since the pneumonia outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus in China in late December 2019, e-commerce platforms in the country have taken active moves to help the country tackle the crisis, working hard to ensure timely supply of items for daily use as

China is ramping up efforts to speed up production and increase the market supply of necessities and medical products as part of its larger efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak, said the country's top economic regulator.

China is working hard to increase medical supplies and daily necessities and is calling on more companies to return to full production after the holiday as part of its broader drive to fight the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak.

The second makeshift hospital built to accommodate patients suspected of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan received the first batch of patients on Saturday night.

Politicians and specialists worldwide have voiced their confidence that China will win battle against the novel coronavirus outbreak and appreciated China's measures in curbing the epidemic.

In the face of public health crisis, all countries should unite as one and cooperate with each other to ride out the storm.

The total number of confirmed nationwide cases of the novel coronavirus has surpassed total suspected cases for four consecutive days and the gap keeps widening, signifying stronger screening and testing capabilities.

The genome sequence of the novel coronavirus strain separated from pangolins was 99 percent identical to that from infected people, indicating pangolins may be an intermediate host of the virus, a study has found.

Severe or even critical patients infected with the novel coronavirus will be able to recover under positive medical treatment.

Establishing mobile cabin hospitals in Wuhan, Hubei province, is an effective way to increase admission capacity of patients infected with novel coronavirus, an official with the National Health Commission said on Friday.

Xiamen Airlines has dispatched 10 more flights to Manila, the Philippines to retrieving stranded Chinese on Wednesday, the second such move after sending a flight each to Bangkok, Thailand and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia on Jan 31.

More Chinese hospitals have launched free online medical consultation services to relieve pressure on hospitals and reduce the chance of cross infection amid the novel coronavirus spread.

Chinese authorities Thursday asked businesses outside Hubei Province to resume operation in an orderly manner while continuing to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak.

For a nation, the greatest glory consists not in never falling, but rising when it falls.

The Wuhan government released a notice, mourning the doctor who sounded an early warning about the novel coronavirus outbreak and died of the disease.

Chinese researchers have developed a new method to produce hydrogen from the industrial waste of sulfureted hydrogen, according to a recent study paper published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

The People’s Liberation Army Joint Logistic Support Force has been making all-out efforts to purchase materials badly needed in the fight against the ongoing novel coronavirus epidemic.

The first Long March 5B carrier rocket arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Wednesday for prelaunch preparations.

The death rate from pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus on the Chinese mainland has declined by 0.2 percentage points and now stands at 2.1 percent, an official said.

China has taken measures to improve novel coronavirus prevention work and ensure safe travels during the Spring Festival travel rush as people are returning to work after the holiday.

By Tuesday night, 45 patients have been transferred to Huoshenshan Hospital, one of two hospitals in Wuhan, Hubei province, built to contain patients of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Xu Dixiong, deputy head of the hospital, said in an interview with CCT

Intl community praises China's response to novel coronavirus.

The Chinese mainland added 3,235 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 20,438, the National Health Commission said.

Several departments of China's central government have rolled out favorable policies or provided funds for local governments and individuals to fight the new coronavirus, an official with the National Health Commission (NHC) said Monday.

China's lunar rover Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2) has driven 367.25 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration.

China's civil air transport is playing its role in delivering emergency supplies to help fight the novel coronavirus epidemic.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry will hold daily news briefings online starting Monday due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China.

China will step up efforts to enhance supervision to prevent the shipment and sale of wild animals as preventive and control measures to curb the spreading of the novel coronavirus, according to the State Administration for Market Regulation.

With the end of the extended Lunar New Year holiday on Sunday and a large number of travelers hitting the road or boarding flights, China has stepped up disinfection, ventilation and screening measures in public spaces to contain the novel coronavirus out

Chinese government can manage to contain the outbreak of the new coronavirus, which was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei province, and has spread to other parts of China and foreign countries.

Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, China is now facing obstacles that may hinder its economic development in a short run, but the country’s economy will show strong resilience and will not be severely slackened, said experts.

More cities have issued plans to build a Xiaotangshan-style hospital to ease the shortage of beds for patients infected by the novel coronavirus after Wuhan, the center of epidemic, has done so.

China's National Immigration Administration has issued a guideline for novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) prevention in six languages including English, Russian, French, German, Japanese and Korean, for foreigners in China.

Medical personnel from the People's Liberation Army will take over a newly-constructed hospital in Hubei province's Wuhan dedicated to novel coronavirus-caused pneumonia.

Starting on Saturday, passengers will be required to provide their phone numbers when buying train tickets as part of the country's efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to the country's top railway operator.

The first batch of charter flights sent by the Chinese government Friday evening brought back 199 stranded Hubei residents from overseas following the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province.

More hospitals designed to replicate the SARS treatment model are popping up across China as the country mobilizes medical resources nationwide to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

China's central authorities approved Friday further extending the Spring Festival holiday in the novel coronavirus hard-hit Hubei Province to curb the outbreak.

Intl community praises China's response to novel coronavirus.

China has confidence and capability to win the battle against the epidemic caused by the novel coronavirus, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday after the World Health Organization declared the pneumonia outbreak in China a public health emergency of inter

The Civil Aviation Administration of China has arranged two flights on Friday to bring back Wuhan travelers who remain abroad due to the city's lockdown amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.

China has full confidence and capability to win the fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Friday.

China Railway Corporation has set up a big data group to help find passengers who took the same railway compartment as people who have contracted the novel coronavirus.

WHO head praises China's response to novel coronavirus.

Amid a surge in the number of coronavirus cases — the total surpassed 7,000 on Wednesday — people outside China have shown empathy and support for China in fighting back against the outbreak. Boeing will donate 250,000 medical-grade respiratory masks to

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, issued an instruction regarding the novel coronavirus on Monday.

Have you made travel plans for the upcoming Spring Festival holiday? Health issues should not be underestimated if you have. Here are some tips for a healthy trip during the traditional Chinese festival from experts at the Chinese Center for Disease Contr

The number of passenger trips rose 2.5 percent year on year to 758 million in the first 10 days of the Spring Festival travel rush, official data showed.

Construction of the longest undersea subway tunnel in China was completed Monday in Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong province.

A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature.

In early November, a batch of fresh Musang King durian fruit still in their hard skins arrived in Chongqing from Malaysia. They sold out immediately.

China will strengthen efforts in poverty alleviation this year, aiming to lift the remaining poor counties and people under the current standard out of poverty, according to a State Council executive meeting held on Monday.

Growth in the nation's employment showed surprisingly good performance in 2019 thanks to growing domestic demand and sound implementation of supportive State-level policies.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences will support more labs and major projects in frontier sciences, expand international collaboration with other countries and share its data and solutions via more robust and open cloud-based platforms this year, senior scien

New research conducted by Chinese scientists has revealed the molecular mechanism of the environmental adaptation and rapid growth of a weed, Mikania micrantha, providing insights on how to prevent its invasion.

Starting Feb 1, Chinese citizens abroad will be able to apply for the replacement or reissue of their passports at any overseas Chinese embassies or consulates, said the Director-General of the Foreign Ministry's Department of Consular Affairs Cui Aimin o

For a certain number of young Chinese, most of whom are under 30 years old, spending their lives commuting between home and office to work for other people is increasingly being seen as too mundane.

Railway trips have exceeded 100 million in China as of Saturday since the beginning of the Spring Festival travel rush, data from the national railway operator showed Sunday.

The next mission in China's lunar exploration program－Chang'e 5－will land a probe on an area never reached by astronauts or spacecraft and is expected to bring back at least 1 kilogram of samples, a project insider said.

China has the confidence and the ability to meet challenges this year to keep its economy in the proper range and to make continued social progress, Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday in Beijing when meeting with foreign experts working in China.

China will smash its record for space launches in 2020.

Three more pairs of trains were added Friday to the high-speed railway line connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou, the co-host city of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, to meet increasing demand, according to China Railway Beijing Group Co., Ltd.

China will make an all-out effort to realize zero import of solid waste by the end of this year as it ramps up the upgrading of recycling companies and encourages them to turn to domestic alternatives, an environmental official said.

China plans to promote the reform of its petition system to deal with more cases online, according to a national conference attended by chiefs of local petition-handling administrations.

China's first center offering psychological aid for police officers opened in Beijing on Tuesday, the capital's Public Security Bureau said.

China's top political advisory body Wednesday held a Spring Festival reception for widows of late luminaries.

China's first civilian high-definition mapping satellite Ziyuan III 01 has celebrated its 8th birthday in orbit.

China's social insurance system remained stable in 2019, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

Chinese scientists have developed a protective agent that can reduce the effects of herbicide on crops, according to the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

China's fast-expanding high-speed railway network is helping Wu Aiping, a 50-year-old worker in east China's Anhui Province, reunite with his family sooner than ever.

The upcoming annual Spring Festival gala will bring television audience new viewing experiences by using 5G, virtual reality and higher-definition display technologies, said the China Media Group (CMG) Tuesday.

A team led by Chinese astronomers has produced high-resolution images of the most distant known blazar, which they say could help study the evolvement of galaxies born in the early universe, said an article published this week by Nature Communications.

China's foreign trade volume in 2019 stood at 31.54 trillion yuan, growing 3.4 percent year-on-year, data released by the General Administration of Customs show.

China had 39 mega civil airports each with annual passenger throughput exceeding the 10-million mark in 2019, according to civil aviation authorities.

Every Chinese New Year, cities such as Beijing and Guangzhou — which sustain millions of jobs — empty out, as people working or studying return to their smaller hometowns for family reunions.

Anyone who attacks a police officer on duty will be given heavier punishment under the law as a new guideline took effect to better protect officers and curb violence against them.

Chinese doctors in Beijing have successfully carried out a surgical operation to replace three tumor-eroded thoracic vertebrae with customized 3D-printed implants.

The Nanchang, China's first Type 055 guided-missile destroyer, was commissioned in the People's Liberation Army Navy on Sunday morning in the port city of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province.

China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, passed national evaluation on Saturday and has officially begun operations.

The Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday issued an early warning to raise awareness of road safety during the Spring Festival travel rush that begins Friday.

All high-speed railway stations will allow passengers to use electronic tickets as part of the effort to streamline boarding procedures and improve service amid robust traffic during the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush, the national railway operator

While cooking mushrooms and leafy greens on a stovetop, Wu Kejian explained to 50 students attending a catering class how to make a nutritious meal with less oil and salt.

The Tibet autonomous region listed nearly half its land area under the strictest ecological supervision in 2019, according to the ongoing regional people's congress that kicked off on Tuesday.

China's railway public security authorities have launched a campaign to ensure security during the travel rush for the upcoming Spring Festival, which falls on Jan 25 this year.

China has taken a range of steps to secure a sufficient pork supply for the coming Spring Festival feasts－supporting hog production, slaughtering more pigs and releasing more reserves of frozen meat to replenish the market.

More than 3,800 projects to promote the supply of high-quality grain had been completed across China by the end of last year, accounting for almost half the planned total, the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration said.

China's first maritime patrol ship with a tonnage exceeding 10,000 tons is being built and will be operated by the Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration when commissioned, officials of the administration said Wednesday.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) and the All-China Women's Federation have jointly issued a circular calling for stronger action on crimes that infringe on the rights and interests of women and children.

A new regulation will help strengthen supervision over China's childcare institutions and facilitate the high-quality development of childcare service sector, Health News reported Tuesday.

Chinese researchers have developed a new measuring method for aircraft working in extremely high temperatures, according to its developer.

China sent a new communication technology experiment satellite into space from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 11:20 p.m. (Beijing Time), Tuesday.

A team of Chinese doctors have successfully conducted the country's first robot-assisted brain angiography in a Beijing hospital, Science and Technology Daily reported Monday.

Chinese research vessel Kexue, or Science, returned to its homeport in the eastern city of Qingdao on Sunday after finishing a research mission in the western Pacific Ocean.

China's courier industry is expected to handle 74 billion parcels this year, according to the country's postal service regulator, an average of 52 deliveries per person.

China will release another batch of 20,000 tons of pork reserves to stabilize prices for the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, according to the website of China Merchandise Reserve Management Center on Thursday.

A main section in Hebei province of an expressway linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou, the co-host cities of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, has passed completion tests, authorities said.

China's heaviest and most advanced satellite, Shijian 20, reached its fixed position in geosynchronous orbit Sunday, marking the first successful flight of DFH-5 satellite platform, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

China has successfully completed its national groundwater monitoring project, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Grid live working robots have been put into service in North China's Tianjin Municipality, replacing humans in the dangerous work on high-voltage power lines.

Qiesha Secong, a 30-year-old resident of Abuluoha village in Sichuan province, sold his family's only horse early last month.

China's quantum satellite -- Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) -- has successfully linked up with the world's first mobile quantum ground station and conducted an encrypted data transmission in Jinan, Shandong province.

The number of passenger trips served by China's railways reached 3.57 billion in 2019, up 7.7 percent year on year, according to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.

China's lunar rover Yutu 2 has driven 357.695 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory.

In an ancestral hall in Xiaying, a village in Jiangxi province, Wang Shengdi, 83, and Li Fengying, 81, blew out the candles on a cake together to celebrate their December birthdays.

China on Wednesday began a 10-year fishing ban on key areas of the Yangtze River to protect biodiversity in the country's longest river, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

A total of 2,481 poverty-stricken villages in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have had their power grid upgraded since March 2018, according to the State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd.

China has approved its first domestically made vaccine against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus for use by females aged 9 to 45, providing an alternative to foreign drugmakers' products, according to the National Medical Products Administration.

China is expected to spend about 800 billion yuan (about $114.36 billion) on railway investment in 2020, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) said.

China has on Sunday released a blue paper on efforts made for handicapped people, highlighting improvements in the barrier-free environment across the country.

With the highest concrete bridge tower in the world, Pingtang Bridge in Southwest China's Guizhou province on Monday opened to traffic, according to local authorities.

The first solar thermal power station in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region went into operation Sunday night.

Information posted on social media platforms such as Sina Weibo and conversations on instant messaging tools like WeChat will be accepted as digital evidence by Chinese courts hearing civil lawsuits.

The first catch of the fishing season - a 13-kilogram fish - set an auction record of 2.96 million yuan ($423,000) at the opening ceremony of the annual fishing and hunting festival on frozen Chagan Lake in Northeast China's Jilin province on Saturday.

The 23rd Chinese medial team to Togo on Saturday provided free consultations and healthcare to agricultural populations of Kpele-Akata, about 150 km northwest to the capital Lome.

The popularization of the automatic payment service nationwide will greatly improve the efficiency of road transport during this year's Spring Festival travel rush, the country's transportation authority said on Friday.

The supply of flu vaccines can meet demand in general across the country as China is entering the peak season for flu, according to the top health authority.

China is expected to add about 8,000 km of railways this year, with its investment in fixed assets in the transport sector estimated at over 3.2 trillion yuan ($457.5 billion) in 2019.

China has seen notable improvement of air quality in key regions thanks to its efforts in air pollution control since the beginning of the year, environmental authorities said Thursday.

The Ministry of Water Resources has cleared almost 1,400 sites where garbage had been dumped along the watercourse of the Yangtze River and demolished 710 construction projects that intruded into the country's longest water body, a senior official said.

China has developed a robot that can be used in the production line of organic light-emitting diode panels, according to its developer.

China's first satellite to conduct experiments on key technologies related to space-based gravitational wave detection, Taiji-1, has successfully completed its in-orbit tests, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Wednesday.

China's Spring Festival travel rush－the world's biggest annual human migration－will soon kick off and is set to be bigger than ever, with about 3 billion trips expected to be made, according to the country's top economic planner.

China has continued to increase funding to treat pollution and restore nature reserves over the past three years, according to a report submitted to the ongoing bimonthly session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee for review on Wednesday

China will step up infrastructure development of 5G next year, according to a meeting by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

China's college students don't spend enough time on reading, according to a survey conducted by youth.cn, a news outlet under the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.

More than 50 percent of Chinese consumers are willing to pay a modest fee for eco-friendly packaging used by e-commerce retailers, a recent survey showed.

Civil aviation authorities on the mainland and Taiwan agreed to add extra flights across the Taiwan Straits for Spring Festival in January and February to meet the demands of Taiwan residents on the mainland to return home during the holiday, the Civil Av

For decades, Chinese people prized government-funded jobs for the stability and social security that came with them, even if it meant earning a lackluster salary.

Authorities in Southwest China's Guizhou province announced Monday that they have completed a large-scale program of relocating some 1.88 million poor residents to places with better living conditions, marking an important step forward in China's fight ag

A total of 65 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with their performance in time use over the past year, according to a recent survey by the China Youth Daily.

China is expected to cut the burden of electricity costs by around 64.1 billion yuan (about $9.2 billion) for industrial and commercial businesses this year, according to the State Grid Corporation of China.

China will take multiple measures to meet pork consumption demand in the upcoming New Year and Spring Festival holidays and strive to keep pork prices stable, according to a recent meeting on restoring hog production.

China will conduct the third mission of its largest and mightiest carrier rocket－Long March 5－around the end of this year, the China National Space Administration said.

Social science majors have become more attractive to postgraduate candidates than those in science and engineering in recent years, a new report showed.

Necessary emergency rescue equipment and facilities should be available at public places across China, according to a draft law submitted to China's top legislature for review on Monday.

The 10th China Flower Expo, which will be held on Shanghai's Chongming Island in 2021, unveiled its theme song, logo and official event flower – the peony - on Thursday.

The latest move by the China Population Publishing House to promote a healthy China and popularize science was launched Wednesday in Beijing, according to a national health newspaper on Thursday.

Customs officers in the coastal city of Dalian in Northeast China's Liaoning province intercepted over 600 tonnes of smuggled solid waste and arrested three suspects on Wednesday.

The production of hogs should get a boost with the recent release of a document allowing the construction of larger agriculture-related facilities.

A total of 3.41 million people have applied for the postgraduate entrance examination, which will begin on Saturday and last until Monday, for the 2020 academic year, according to the Ministry of Education.

About 3 billion trips are expected to be made during the world's largest annual human migration — the Spring Festival travel rush, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.

Chinese colleges and universities are required to formulate and issue regulations on online education enrollment, according to a guideline issued by the Ministry of Education Wednesday.

While it is most often the case for Chinese people who work or study in large urban areas to leave for their smaller hometown across the country for a family reunion, they are encouraged to choose a reverse route this year.

All administrative villages in China will have access to asphalt roads by the end of this year as part of efforts to lift more rural areas out of poverty, according to the country's transportation authority on Tuesday.

The Chinese government will set up an assessment system through which the public and enterprises can rate services provided by the government.

Countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative are making a collaborative effort to meet the United Nation's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals after more than 20 countries agreed on a set of data-based evaluation standards on Tuesday.

China's National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center unveiled the top 10 media buzzwords for 2019.

China has required the completion of a national vaccine tracking system before March 31, 2020, to enable the whole-process traceability of all vaccines on the market, according to a recent circular.

The core space-based network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been completely deployed, which is expected to tremendously improve the system's capability to serve users around the world.

Grus leucogeranus, or Siberian crane, was spotted for the first time in South China's Guangdong province, according to local researchers.

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China will establish a big data system for comprehensive transport by 2025, according to an outline released by the Ministry of Transport Thursday.

China is expected to lift over 10 million people out of poverty by the end of 2019, a senior official said Sunday.

China's gross ocean product rose 6.3 percent to nearly 6.4 trillion yuan (about 909.1 billion U.S. dollars) in the first three quarters, official data showed.

China's top priority for economic work in 2020 is to complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, as regulators lay out supportive policies, policymakers and analysts said over the weekend.

China's first private 5G low-orbit broadband satellite has passed factory tests and is expected to be launched at the end of the year.

China has started preliminary research for a futuristic scientific program scheduled to be launched around 2030 to search for potentially habitable planets outside our solar system, according to a key figure in the nation's space industry.

China's Yutu 2 rover has been in operation on the lunar surface for more than 340 days, becoming the longest working rover on the moon, according to the China National Space Administration.

The China Coast Guard Thursday said its emergency hotline has been operated smoothly since the service was launched in July.

China took a green path in power generation during the 2014-2018 period, with the continuous expansion of clean energy production, the fourth national economic census showed.

Chinese tourists will travel to more overseas destinations during the Spring Festival holiday in 2020, said a report released by the country's largest online travel agency Trip.com Group.

The national forest coverage, which reached 220 million hectares last year, has seen a consistent growth in the past 30 years, making China the country with the fastest growth of forest resources in the world, according to the national forest resource man

China is expected to see a steady and continuous rise in employment in the following months despite being plagued by shortage of talent and precarious foreign trade landscape.

China's best optical Earth observation satellite for civil use has started operations and has sent back more than 14,000 images, according to the China National Space Administration.

China will deepen high-level exchanges between ministries of justice across the world and enhance cooperation in legal and judicial fields, Minister of Justice Fu Zhenghua said.

About 440 million trips are expected to be made by rail during the Spring Festival travel rush this year, according to the national railway operator on Wednesday.

Urban residents in China are estimated to spend a total of 202.4 billion yuan (about 28.8 billion US dollars) on their pet cats and dogs in 2019, up 18.5 percent year on year, according to a report jointly published by Goumin.com and Pet Fair Asia.

Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua on Monday underscored providing stronger meteorological services for sustained and sound economic development and social stability.

China on Monday officially launched its long-planned national oil and gas pipeline network company, as part of the country's ongoing oil and gas reforms to help meet the nation's increasing energy needs.

Green transportation will account for 90 percent of all transport in Xiongan New Area in North China's Hebei province over the next five years, forming a green transportation system in the new area, per a recently released guideline on the area's traffic.

The environment for Chinese women in the workplace further improved last year, official data showed.

The Belt and Road International Lawyers Association was launched by the All China Lawyers Association in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Sunday to promote legal cooperation among countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.

About 95.5 percent of 2,007 respondents said they pay more attention to the quality of the products and services than ever before, according to a recent survey conducted by China Youth Daily.

Paleontologists announced Friday the discovery of numerous dinosaur footprint fossils dating back to the Jurassic period in the former royal summer resort in North China.

Infrared cameras have captured images and videos of a snow leopard in the Wolong National Nature Reserve, the reserve's management authorities said.

China's Chang'e-4 mission was awarded the Moon Village Principles - Mission Prize by The Moon Village Association (MVA) at a symposium held in Tokyo Thursday, becoming one of the first projects to win the award.

Scientists in China and the United States reported a mammal living more than 120 million years ago, which provides evidence for separation of hearing and chewing modules in the evolution of therian mammals to which all extant mammals, including human bein

China will make all-out efforts and demonstrate the utmost sincerity to help reach consensus on some of the more technical details of the 2015 Paris agreement at the ongoing United Nations climate change conference in Madrid, a senior Chinese delegate sai

Leading officials at city and county levels are encouraged to meet members of the public in person and resolve difficulties raised by them promptly, a senior Party official said.

China will establish around 30 agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zones by 2025 so they become agricultural Silicon Valleys to boost the development of modern agriculture and support the rural rejuvenation strategy, the Ministry of Science an

China State Shipbuilding Corp is constructing the nation's largest and most advanced research vessel, according to project leaders.

Over 10,000 metric tons of scrap waste imported from overseas was intercepted by customs authorities in Hebei province and shipped out of the country on Dec 1.

Meteorological departments in Beijing and Hebei province have prepared enhanced weather services to support the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, Zhang Zuqiang, spokesman for China Meteorological Administration, said on Wednesday.

Young people are a key group for receiving education about the Constitution and should be cultivated with the spirit of the rule of law, said Minister of Justice Fu Zhenghua.

Increasing pork production and supply will be the top priority for agricultural authorities in the following year to ensure pork production can rebound close to the level before outbreaks of African swine fever occurred, the Ministry of Agriculture and Ru

China's large buoy working ship Xiangyanghong 22 was delivered to the East China Sea Branch of the State Oceanic Administration in Shanghai Tuesday.

The main structure has been completed for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Village, as confirmed by Beijing Major Projects Construction Headquarters Office on Tuesday.

China has successfully tested the second stage engine of the Long March-8 rocket, preparing for its maiden flight in 2020, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents who work, study or live on the Chinese mainland will be eligible for the national social insurance as of next month.

China has selected 30 outstanding grass-roots police officers, plus five awardees of special respect and 35 for nomination awards.

Thirty-two internet enterprises, including e-commerce giant Alibaba, promised to make their businesses more creditable on Monday.

China's first seismo-electromagnetic satellite Zhangheng 1 has obtained fruitful electromagnetic data, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Nearly 3 million metric tons of dangerous goods are transported across China every day, and authorities planned to make the transportation safer through stricter rules.

The economic vitality and sound infrastructure of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is helping it attract more talent and become one of China's strongest talent banks.

China has made remarkable progress in advanced vocational education, according to an evaluation report published on the Ministry of Education's website.

China will further encourage meat imports, allowing the total to potentially exceed six million tons this year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.

China has started the design of Fengyun 5 meteorological satellites and the third generation polar orbit meteorological satellite observation system, according to the Science and Technology Daily Thursday.

A class of Ediacaran fossils dating back 610 million years was found in Weng'an Biota in Southwest China's Guizhou province, which foreshadows the evolutionary origin of animal-like embryology.

China will continue to protect the stability and consistency of rural land contracts and protect farmers' interests, according to a new guideline from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council.

China launched a mobile number portability program across the country Wednesday, allowing cellphone subscribers to switch service carriers without changing phone numbers, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Chinese oceanographic research ship Xiangyanghong 06 has set sail from the city of Zhoushan in East China's Zhejiang province to start a research expedition in the East Indian Ocean, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

China is ready to make greater efforts to tackle difficulties faced by market players in business operations, aiming to foster a world-class, market-oriented business environment governed by a sound legal framework, the State Council's executive meeting,

China sent a new Earth observation satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Northern China's Shanxi province at 7:52 am Thursday (Beijing Time).

The HL-2M Tokamak, China's next-generation artificial sun, is expected to be operational in 2020 as installation work has gone smoothly since the delivery of the coil system in June.

China Shipbuilding Corp was officially unveiled on Tuesday in Beijing as the world's largest shipbuilder.

China is catching up with the United States in research contributions and activity in frontier sciences, and it currently leads the world in 33 out of 137 research topics in cutting-edge and new natural and social science fields, according to a report pub

A tiny, bird-like theropod dinosaur found in North China has been identified as a new species, which will help scientists to better understand the evolution of dinosaurs, according to a research team, the thepaper.cn reported Tuesday.

The area of China's high-standard farmland will total 1 billion mu(about 66.7 million hectares) by 2022 to supply 80 percent of the country's total grain output, authorities said Monday.

China has played a critical role in bringing expertise to the construction of the Square Kilometre Array project to create the world's largest and most advanced radio telescope, Philip Diamond, director general of SKA Organization, said at the opening cer

The central government is setting specific goals and requirements for developing high-standard farmland, providing a solid basis to guarantee the country's food security.

The average anticipated monthly salary of Chinese college graduates is 7,409 yuan ($1,054) and first-tier cities are still the top choice for job seekers, a new report on employment has found.

China's central government has allocated a total of 61.6 billion yuan (about $8.8 billion) of subsidies for farmland construction in 2020, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF).

China's high-speed railway network will continue to top the world with an estimated length of 35,000 km by the end of this year, said China Railway.

A white-bellied heron, also called Ardea insignis, a critically endangered bird species, was spotted and rescued in Southwest China's Yunnan province, local authorities said Saturday.

China's first science fiction academy was set up on Sunday by Sichuan University in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Huang Xiuying, a pig farmer in Shanggao county, Jiangxi province, said she believes a hefty investment on upgrading her breeding farm made business sense and would eventually pay off.

Domestic emissions are major sources of air pollution in some Northeast Asian countries, though simulation models show that trans-boundary transport also plays a role, a recent report has found.

Two doctors who moved the public when one siphoned out urine with his mouth to save a senior patient on a flight have been honored by their hospitals, and one doctor will be awarded 100,000 yuan ($14,227.78) according to his hospital.

The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 12th lunar day on the far side of the moon after sleeping during the extremely cold night.

China has achieved a 30-meter-resolution Global Forest Cover Map (GFCM) of 2018 for forest management, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.

Voluntary blood donors may enjoy greater convenience and better rewards in China, according to a document released Tuesday, chinanews.com reported.

Don't touch me, do you want to go to jail? said a second-grade girl at the primary school affiliated to Chen Jinglun High School in Beijing.

Chinese experts have developed a digital farming technology to help herdsmen monitor their pastures, and manage livestock accurately.

The Ministry of Education on Monday dismissed worries that the removal of eight universities specializing in traditional Chinese medicine from the World Directory of Medical Schools would affect graduates' ability to obtain medical licenses.

A contingent of 240 Chinese peacekeepers left Zhangjiakou, a city in northern China's Hebei Province, for South Sudan Tuesday on a one-year mission.

China has moved into second place, behind the United States, in the total number of top-cited scientific papers over the last decade and hot papers in the last two years.

A new manufacturing complex for carrier rockets will soon be built and start operation, according to a project insider with China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the major investor in the base.

China boasts 228 supercomputers, the most in the world, while extending its lead in numbers, and shrinking the gap in aggregate performance with the US

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment said Monday it has started seeking mascot designs from all over the world to promote the country's environmental protection.

Chinese Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua on Monday called for solid efforts to improve the rural living environment.

A team of multinational scientists said they have discovered a giant cluster of karst sinkholes in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Two global multimedia satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Sunday.

A total of 334,000 people in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province have bid farewell to poverty since 2017, according to the provincial poverty alleviation office.

China has issued a new plan for plant conservation from 2021 to 2030 to push for plant diversity protection, restoration and sustainable unilization, according to the China Wild Plant Conservation Association (CWPCA).

China's agricultural ministry has urged all-out efforts in the country's nine provincial-level regions to restore hog production in a bid to stabilize pork prices.

China is expected to launch its nationwide vaccine tracking system in March next year, an official said Thursday.

China has closed over 5,000 websites, 20,000 online accounts and 16,000 online groups faking central authorities to commit illegal activities since 2016, according to the Ministry of Public Security on Thursday.

China has successfully tested an unmanned sailboat for monitoring marine environment, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Law-based governance has been further promoted in China with notable progress made in various areas, according to a report made public Thursday.

Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province Wednesday.

China has taken various measures to ensure pork supply and stabilize pork prices, an official said Thursday.

China carried out a key experiment for its coming Mars mission in Hebei province's Huailai on Thursday in front of dozens of foreign diplomats and journalists.

Beijing will handle an estimated more than 130 million mail and express deliveries in the week following the Singles' Day online shopping spree, according to the municipal postal administration.

President Xi Jinping called for dialogues between civilizations to promote inclusiveness, mutual learning and harmonious coexistence among countries, underlining the need for China and Greece to strengthen cooperation on heritage protection.

China has enriched energy supply and reserves to meet the high demand for natural gas and coal during the winter heating season in northern regions, according to the country's top economic planner.

Overseas Chinese people are being encouraged to actively participate in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as the region creates greater business potential.

Couriers are expected to experience their busiest period of the year this week after the Singles Day shopping spree ended on Monday.

Plans for high-speed maglev lines with trains traveling at speeds of 600 kph or more are taking shape in more Chinese cities in a bid to boost regional integration and economic growth, transportation analysts said.

More than 300 scholars, government officials and international organization representatives from home and abroad shared their views and latest research on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road at a forum in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, over the weekend.

Artificial intelligence, the revolutionary, disruptive and diffuse technology that has been sparking controversy and awe since its inception over 50 years ago

An increasing number of drone operators are helping farmers across China harvest their crops, reducing the costs of pesticides and increasing yields.

China's Ministry of Education on Monday issued a circular asking for stricter punishment on illegal school buses and related violations to ensure students' safety of daily commuting.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to promote all-round progress in developing the military at the primary level.

Wang Chen, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the China Law Society, on Sunday stressed that the rule of law is an imperative part in the construction of the Belt and Road (B&R).

China had a total of 369,935 companies that offer language services by the end of June this year, according to a report released Saturday.

China's spacecraft tracking ships Yuanwang-5 and Yuanwang-7 on Sunday set sail for the Indian Ocean from a port in East China's Jiangsu province for five upcoming satellite maritime monitoring missions.

China will launch a national platform for survey research on the reality of the implementation of key national education policies and major education problems, according to a guideline released by the Ministry of Education Thursday.

The Ministry of Emergency Management said all workers in high-risk industries will need to have vocational certificates by the end of 2021 because low-skilled workers are one of the main causes of industrial accidents.

China has launched a website to give people around the world access to Earth images and planetary data generated by its Gaofen-series high-resolution Earth observation satellites.

A total of 133,000 captive-bred Chinese sturgeons (Acipenser sinensis) were born this year in a research institute in Central China's Hubei province.

Chinese space engineers are tackling the key technologies needed to explore a near-Earth asteroid and a main-belt comet with one space probe.

China's national observatory on Wednesday morning renewed a blue alert for Typhoon Nakri which is expected to bring heavy winds to parts of the country's southern region.

The Big Air snowboard and ski slope for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics completed construction on Oct 31 and was now ready to be used, according to the municipal government.

Choosing a day care center for her 2-year-old son proved a daunting challenge for Shanghai resident Wang Jie.

China recorded around 26,700 cases of voluntary organ donations from 2010 to the end of October this year, a health official said.

A new training center for mainland workers who will work in Macao officially opened its doors after a grand ceremony at Zhuhai Technician College in the Zhuhai special economic zone of Guangdong province on Tuesday.

Shenzhen has announced it will offer 35 land plots covering 30 square kilometers for industrial development, as the southern metropolis moves to attract more outstanding enterprises and projects to push forward growth.

China has tested a new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for monitoring the marine environment in the South China Sea, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Ministry of Finance allocated emergency funding of 100 million yuan ($14.2 million) for drought relief in five provincial regions in Central and Southwest China.

China Tibet News has reported on the significant progress made in the Tibet autonomous region in ecological construction over the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province at 1:43 am Tuesday.

China's Chang'e 4 robotic probe started its 11th period of dormancy on the moon on Monday morning after the Yutu 2 rover sent back pictures of its tracks around the landing site, according to the China National Space Administration.

Chinese workers just completed a live-wire operation on the 1,100-kv direct-current transmission line in the city of Lu'an in East China's Anhui province, which is the first-ever case in the world.

China on Sunday launched a new Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-7, which will play an important role in land surveying and mapping, urban and rural construction and statistical investigation, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

China is confident it can fulfill last year's pledge to import $30 trillion of goods in the next 15 years despite challenges from a slowing global economy, a senior official said over the weekend.

Premier Li Keqiang called on Saturday upon member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to move forward with development of interconnectivity networks and to improve the level of trade and investment facilitation to expand regional trade volume.

China will take more steps to standardize marine equipment manufacturing, improve the quality and competitiveness and encourage overseas participation, experts and officials said.

Electric vehicles with two or three wheels used for takeout food and express deliveries in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, will have GPS positioning equipment installed to help monitor traffic violations.

The 2nd annual forum of the World Laureates Association closed on Thursday in Shanghai with an initiative released to further promote international science and technology exchanges.

China officially kicked off commercialization of 5G services on Thursday, with the nation's big three telecom operators rolling out their 5G data plans.

China is leveraging 5G technology to foster the development of intelligent port construction as it aspires to become a leading country in intelligent shipping, according to a report released on Friday at a shipping and innovation development conference in

Cat tongues are more efficient than brushes, longer vacations mean a longer life, and even dinosaurs suffered from neck arthritis - all this according to what is arguably the most bizarre science award in China, which once again paid its annual tribute to

Chinese scientists have developed a nanometer material that can be used for liver cancer treatment, according to the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wednesday.

China has established more than 11,800 protected areas covering 18 percent of its land area and 4.6 percent of its sea area, aiming to build the world's most expansive mechanism for the management of protected areas by 2025, authorities revealed on Wednes

About 84 percent of schools with canteens have opened their kitchens for public supervision, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE) at a press conference Tuesday.

The State Council on Tuesday approved a plan for building a demonstration area in the Yangtze River Delta on ecologically friendly development.

China has developed and completed the manned cabin for a new deep-sea manned submersible capable of carrying three people deeper than 10,000 meters, according to media reports.

The Beijing subway system will apply facial recognition technology to passenger security checks to improve transport efficiency, a senior official from the Beijing transport authority said on Tuesday.

China is carrying out in-depth demonstration and long-term planning for its manned lunar exploration, and has formed an overall consensus and a preliminary plan, according to a senior space engineer.

China's first four-seat electric aircraft has completed a successful flight in Shenyang Tuesday morning, marking the birth of a new aircraft product and the nation's leading position in electric aircraft development.

All Chinese citizens are expected to be able to enjoy traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) services in their communities by 2022, according to a recently issued guideline.

Eating and drinking on the subway has long been a contentious issue in China. While many have expressed annoyance at the scent and sight of food and wrappers in train cars, quite a few also support the right to munch on snacks during long commutes to work

China's first X-ray space telescope has helped scientists open a new window to observe and better understand bizarre celestial bodies like black holes and neutron stars.

The third Long March 5 carrier rocket was transported to Wenchang, Hainan province, on Sunday and will undergo final tests before its launch, the China National Space Administration said.

Projected to be among the world's busiest civil aviation hubs, Beijing Daxing International Airport on Sunday greeted its first international passengers with a streamlined customs service, which has cut quarantine-inspection and luggage-clearance times.

In recent years, Weihe, a village on an island in Weishan Lake, has become a well-to-do settlement, where the average annual per capita income is 30,000 yuan ($4,230).

The fifth prototype of China's large passenger airliner C919 completed its maiden flight at an airport in Shanghai on Thursday morning.

Chinese marine research vessel Haiyang 6 (Ocean 6) has completed its deep-sea exploration mission in the Western Pacific ocean after 122 days and 35,000 km at sea.

A total of 1,340 medicinal plants have been discovered in a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) resources survey in Northwest China's Qinghai province, according to local authorities.

China's top legislator has called for closer ties between lawmakers and the people, and further efforts to improve the mechanism regarding deputies to people's congresses in the new era.

The General Offices of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council have published a guideline for enhancing ethnic unity.

China began piloting the national plan for medium- and long-term development of young people in counties and county-level cities and districts, the China Youth Daily reported Wednesday.

Chinese scientists are determined to carry out two of the nation's most challenging space endeavors next year: its Chang'e 5 lunar mission and first Mars exploration.

Beginning on Sunday, 15 airlines - seven domestic and eight foreign - will start operating from Beijing Daxing International Airport, according to the airport authority.

Chinese courts have concluded 10,859 cases of organized crime since the country launched a campaign to fight such offenses at the beginning of 2018, said a criminal report by China's top court released on Monday.

The Third 21st Century Maritime Silk Road China (Guangdong) International Communication Forum officially kicked off in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, on Tuesday, with an aim to showcase the peaceful development of China to the world.

China's top legislature on Monday started reviewing a draft decision on authorizing the jurisdiction of Macao's port zone at Hengqin port and extended areas in south China's Guangdong province to the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

China saw improving ecological environment in pilot areas of national parks amid strengthened efforts of protection, said the country's forestry authority.

The nation's employment rate steadily increased over the past three quarters thanks to the growing economy and employment-priority policy, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Monday.

The ancient Potala Palace in Lhasa, the Tibet autonomous region, attracts thousands of tourists and pilgrims every year, and they have to make reservations a few days in advance to get a ticket, especially during the peak summer season.

Trains running on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway reached a record speed of 385 kilometers per hour, 10 percent higher than the designed speed, in a test run carried out on Sunday

Juveniles who engage in serious misconduct - such as public fighting, drug use or gambling - but who may be exempt from punishment because of their age will receive rehabilitative treatment by police, a draft revision said.

China Rocket Co Ltd released its commercial carrier rockets research and development plan in Beijing on Saturday.

DVDs and USBs recording China's National Day celebrations, including a gathering at Tian'anmen Square, a military parade, a civilian parade and an evening gala, have hit shelves across China.

Vice-Premier Liu He on Saturday called for efforts to promote the sound development of the VR industry.

Chinese currency has a stable foundation, according to senior officials and analysts, and they believe a prudent monetary policy is best for China to deal with domestic and external economic issues.

China is preparing for the upcoming high-density space missions to construct China's space station, and the Long March-5B carrier rocket, set to launch capsules for the space station, is expected to make its maiden flight in 2020.

Some 61.3 percent of interviewed parents said that there should be specially-designed mobile phones for students at primary and middle schools, according to a survey launched by the social survey center of China Youth Daily.

China's Central Military Commission (CMC) issued a directive to improve auditing on the armed forces in the new era, said a statement from the military Thursday.

China issued a new set of professional standards for elderly caregivers to encourage more people to join the understaffed workforce.

China has said it will raise the use efficiency of residential land and idle houses in rural areas, according to a notice released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

China's first license for the test-running of drone deliveries has been granted to Antwork Technology, a drone delivery company based in eastern province of Zhejiang, by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).

Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region launched a series of supportive policies for winter tourism on Tuesday, according to the region's tourism development department.

Land reform projects in Deqing, a county in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, have boosted farmers' incomes and helped industrial upgrading in the county.

China's civil servant exam saw 86,456 people on the first day of online applications, 16,700 applicants more than last year, according to Huatu Education, an agency that offers coaching services to applicants.

China's transportation industry has expanded steadily in September as an index measuring the vitality of the sector remained at a high level, according to the China Academy of Transportation Sciences.

Chinese researchers have discovered a new species of marine insect from the Hermatobatidae family in the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, marking the first time the insect was recorded in China.

Chinese authorities have approved the project of building the first plateau airport in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

China's inbound tourism has revived since 2015 after experiencing a downturn in recent years, but its potential has yet to be fully realized due to a stringent visa policy, imperfect tourism facilities and a homogenization of tour packages being offered,

The preliminary research on China's new generation of manned spacecraft-carrying rocket has concluded successfully, paving the way for the program's next steps, according to China Space News, the flagship newspaper in the country's space industry.

China's research icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, has returned to Shanghai after a recent complete overhaul, ready for the country's upcoming 36th Antarctic expedition, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources Monday.

China will intensify international cooperation with other countries to jointly fight hunger and ensure global food security, said a white paper released on Monday.

Revenue of China's electronic information manufacturing industry rose 5 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2019.

The People's Liberation Army Air Force will host a five-day open-house activity starting on Thursday in Changchun, Jilin province, to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding.

China will promote the transformation and upgrading of energy production and consumption, and safeguard energy security in a bid to improve people's livelihood, according to a meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang on Friday.

After months of planning, a newlywed couple in Beijing is taking a honeymoon in Europe that they planned themselves.

Chinese political advisors gathered Friday to brainstorm measures to boost the country's employment during a biweekly session in Beijing.

Wholesale prices of China's agricultural products went up Friday, according to a report released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Premier Li Keqiang called on Friday for further widening of market access in the energy sector, especially for oil and gas exploration and exploitation, and the development of pipeline networks, to encourage more participation from market players.

Aircraft engine WZ16, a type of turboshaft engine jointly developed by Chinese and French aviation companies, has received a certificate from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, according to its developer Thursday.

A fireball meteor was seen in Northeast China's provinces including Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang in Friday's wee hours, with no casualties or property loss yet reported.

All of China's 10 pilot national parks will have finished construction next year, with some parks having made significant achievements in ecological and wildlife protection, the forestry department announced on Thursday.

The fifth Greater Bay Area Conference on Thursday in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region focused on the concept of Inclusive growth through innovation and sustainability as well as regional integration.

China has slashed levels of pollution from its thermal power plants over the past five years and is on track to meet a key emissions goal for 2020, according to a new study.

An increasing number of government institutions are opening up their parking spaces and facilities free to tourists during holidays.

Temperatures will continue to drop nationwide and heavy rain will hit South and Southwest China until Oct 18 due to cold air combining with warm, humid air.

Every morning, Beilun Bridge swarms with thousands of Vietnamese commuters passing through the Dongxing border port on their way to work in China.

Scientists have discovered well-preserved fossils of Cambrian arthropod Sidneyia in East China's Shandong province, which is believed to be the first time that the genus has been found outside of Laurentia.

China's first domestically-built polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, will berth in Shenzhen Shekou Cruise Homeport from Oct 13 to 15 and open to the public for one and a half days

The 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Expo, lasting for 162 days since it kicked off on April 28, will come to an end after a closing ceremony on Wednesday, a senior official with the expo's organizing committee said on Tuesday.

Japan and Thailand remained the top two popular overseas destinations for Chinese travelers in the just completed weeklong National Day holiday, and Chinese travelers emphasized leisure over shopping in those countries, travel agencies reported.

During the seven-day National Day holiday that ended on Monday, residents of Chongqing received text messages from the local public security bureau and tourism committee suggesting that they avoid popular scenic spots to ease traffic and make room for vis

China will plan and construct 127 key special railway lines by 2020, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.

BEIJING -- China's road cargo transport saw steady growth in the first eight months of 2019, official data showed.

GUIYANG - Chinese scientists are paying close attention to a repeating fast radio burst by making follow-up observations during the country's National Day holiday.

QINGDAO - China's research vessel KEXUE, or Science, departed for the western Pacific Ocean Thursday from a pier of East China's coastal city of Qingdao on a research mission of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Current and former leaders of foreign countries and international organizations have sent congratulatory messages to President Xi Jinping to convey their best wishes on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

BEIJING - China's railways are striving to ensure the safety of all passengers during the National Day holiday travel peak.

GUANGZHOU -- Hong Kong man Andy Ng was surprised his shared workspace Timetable was rented out completely only six months after it had started operation in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province.

BEIJING - China saw more railway passenger trips made Tuesday than any single day during the previous National Day holidays as more people choose to travel by train.

BEIJING -- A grand evening gala marking the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China started at Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing Tuesday.

President Xi Jinping reviewed the armed forces at the heart of Beijing Tuesday morning, his first on National Day, to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

China on Sunday identified six Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War whose remains were reburied in their homeland after being returned from the Republic of Korea (ROK).

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region provided access to drinking water for more than 264,000 people in rural areas by August, according to the region's water resources department.

Weather in most parts of China during the National Day holiday from Oct 1 to 7 will generally be good and suitable for outdoor activities, the National Meteorological Center said on Sunday.

The Belt and Road Journalists Network and its first presidium were founded at the 2019 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Beijing on Saturday.

A Chinese satellite, nicknamed Monkey King, is not only searching for the invisible dark matter, but also exploring the origin of the cosmic rays, high energy particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light.

China will build a comprehensive traffic network in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, slashing the travel time between neighboring cities to 1.5 hours, a transport official said Thursday.

China's grain output is expected to remain above 650 billion kg for a fifth straight year in 2019, a senior official said Friday.

Nearly 250,000 people in Tibet have moved into 910 new settlements as part of poverty alleviation efforts by August, according to the region's poverty-relief headquarters.

The Chinese job market has shown resilience, adding 9.84 million jobs in the first eight months of this year, an official said on Thursday, even as fears grew globally for an economic slowdown.

Chinese authorities announced on Thursday plans to release more pork from its central reserves to ensure market supply for the upcoming National Day Holiday.

The Inner Mongolia autonomous region will encourage innovative ways to control desertification and contribute its experiences to more regions in the country as well as around the world.

China's Tibet autonomous region has seen significant progress in science and technology over the past 60 years since the launch of the region's democratic reform in 1959, China Tibet News has reported.

China's first amphibious assault ship was launched in Shanghai on Wednesday, coming closer to the completion of its construction project.

Chinese scientists have reconstructed the descent trajectory of the Chang'e-4 lunar probe and determined its precise landing site on the far side of the moon in a move that could bolster further deep space exploration.

Beijing Daxing International Airport has embraced multiple new technologies to make it smarter and more efficient.

China has underlined a series of key tasks for building national strength in transportation in a published official document, officials said Tuesday.

A maritime rescue center was put into operation in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Tuesday, to better protect navigation and transport safety in nearby waters.

China sent a new satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on Wednesday.

Beijing's new mega-airport opens on Wednesday, welcoming its first passengers after five years of construction.

Jiuzhaigou, a scenic area in Sichuan province on the UNESCO World Natural Heritage list, will reopen on Friday after having fixed damage caused by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in 2017.

China's lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, discovered an unidentified substance in an impact crater on the far side of the moon.

The country's first specifications for online accommodation platforms was released on Monday in Beijing, in an effort to improve online accommodation services, protect rights and interests of consumers and strengthen self-discipline of the platforms, acco

With a ceremony held on Monday morning for the first harvest of hairy crabs from Yangcheng Lake came the long-awaited annual season for eating the freshwater crustaceans.

China will have another harvest of grains provided there are no major natural disasters this autumn, said an agriculture official, as the country's grain output last year reached 657.89 million tons, almost 6 times that of 1949.

More than 500 tour guides and leaders from Hong Kong and Macao have applied for special certificates for practicing in the Hengqin New Area in Zhuhai, next door to Macao, since the new policy was announced by the Guangdong government last week.

China launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket to place two Beidou navigation satellites into space on Monday morning, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.

The number of charging posts for new energy vehicles in China continued steady growth thanks to the robust development of the country's green transportation, data from China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance showed.

Visitors to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding will have to book tickets online during National Day holidays, according to a circular issued by the base Sunday.

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has allocated 23.6 billion yuan ($3.33 billion) of agriculture-related funds to its poverty-stricken counties, local authorities have said.

China has allocated 10 billion yuan (about $1.4 billion) designated for funding pilot ecological conservation and restoration projects this year, the Ministry of Finance said Friday.

A recently-launched Chinese satellite has conducted in-orbit experiments on the key technologies related to space-based gravitational wave detection, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Friday.

Chinese researchers have successfully conducted an in situ measurement of lunar dust at the landing site of the country's Chang'e-3 probe.

China will support projects on poverty reduction using the internet as a further step to win the battle against poverty, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its website.

A geological research team announced Friday that they had discovered groups of 100-million-year-old fossils of dinosaur footprints in Northwest China's Shaanxi province.

The Red Cross Society of China became the first national Red Cross society in the world to receive a major first aid certification from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, which is expected to help promote global

A smart security check system was put into operation Thursday at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in South China's Guangdong province to speed up the security check process.

JIUQUAN - Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert Thursday.

BEIJING - China on Thursday issued a white paper on the progress of women's cause in the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Travelers will be able to pass through customs inspections faster than ever at the soon-to-be-opened Beijing Daxing International Airport.

A set of platelet collection facilities have been introduced into Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region. Blood donors started to use the facilities to donate platelets on Wednesday.

A vessel run by COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers Co Ltd and loaded with close to 30,000 metric tons of paper pulp from Helsinki, capital of Finland, arrived in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, on Tuesday.

Beijing, Changchun in Northeast China's Jilin province, and Leshan in Southwest China's Sichuan province are predicted to be the top 3 cities most prone to traffic congestion during the National Day holiday, according to a travel forecast report.

China's Ministry of Natural Resources has recently released an application guide for tourist activities at the Great Wall station in Antarctica.

CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. unveiled the key components of its magnetic-levitation train with a designed speed of 600 kph in Central China's Hunan province Tuesday.

The first bus route planned through artificial intelligence technology in Shanghai began operation on Monday, bringing commuters a better riding experience with lower charges and less time spent on the road.

China's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) have allocated 665 million yuan (about $94 million) Tuesday to four provinces affected by typhoon Lekima or drought.

Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region received a total of 910,021 tourists during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday starting Friday, up 18.2 percent year on year, local tourism authorities said Monday.

An auxiliary terminal to improve efficiency at Shanghai Pudong International Airport opened on Monday, bringing the city closer to becoming a global aviation hub, said officials from the airport authority.

China's northernmost city Mohe in Heilongjiang province welcomed the first snow of the coming winter on Sunday, about 25 days earlier than last year, said the local observatory.

Travel agencies reported that short family trips were the highlight of the just completed Mid-Autumn Festival holiday-a traditional Chinese festival for family unions, balancing people's expanding demands for sightseeing and cultural experience within a l

China's big data sector will continue to post steady expansion by 2023, driven by policy support and technology integration, said a report from the International Data Corporation (IDC).

CHENGDU -- A high-speed railway in western China has won the award of FIDIC Outstanding Project of the Year, its design company said Thursday.

Chinese astronomers have completed about 71.4 percent of a grand project to paint a portrait of the vast Milky Way, according to the Qinghai station of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

BEIJING - Beijing parks welcomed more than 300,000 visitors on Friday, the first day of this year's Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, according to local authorities.

China's State Council on Wednesday called for enhanced efforts to ensure that people's basic needs are met.

China's inbound tourism hit a new high last year after a decade-long downturn, according to a World Tourism Alliance and Kulv Data Marketing report published in Beijing on Thursday.

Tian'anmen Square in the center of Beijing will be temporarily closed on Saturday and Sunday for the second rehearsal of the celebrations of the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China, authorities said.

The Second Shanghai Forum on the Belt and Road Initiative was held on Wednesday in Shanghai amid the Eighth World Forum on China Studies, bringing together 60 international experts to discuss the promotion of high-quality Belt and Road Initiative partners

An exhibition showcasing China's progress in human rights opened at the United Nations' main office in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.

Chinese astronomers have detected repeated fast radio bursts (FRB) - mysterious signals believed to be from a source about 3 billion light years from Earth - with the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built.

China will simplify the application process for the licensing of temporary inbound vehicles, and temporary driving licenses for overseas people, the Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday.

China will allow motor vehicle retailers to provide license plate number selection and car registration services, according to the Ministry of Public Security Tuesday.

The Yangtze River, the world's third longest waterway, is expecting a new landmark as construction counts down toward completion of the widest bridge on the river.

The first joint rehearsal for the upcoming National Day celebrations ended early Sunday morning in Beijing, about three weeks ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which falls on Oct 1.

The expansion of the third phase of Shanghai Pudong International Airport is about to be completed as the launch of the world's largest single-building satellite hall on Sept 16 approaches, official sources said.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China encourages overseas airlines to open international flights to Beijing Daxing International Airport, which will begin operations before Sept 30, whether going all-in or operating in Beijing's two airports, a senio

A Chinese scientist, together with his Nigerian research partner, won Nigeria's most prestigious science award on Wednesday for their outstanding contribution to scientific and technological innovation, the award advisory board announced here.

Key Chinese hospitals, leading telecom carriers and Huawei Wednesday launched a project to establish standards for 5G-based networks in hospitals.

The Beijing section of the intercity railway linking Beijing with Xiongan New Area started test runs Thursday.

Beijing Daxing International Airport will be qualified to handle flights on Sept 15, taking a big step forward toward its official opening before Sept 30, according to the airport authority on Wednesday.

The track-laying job on a new high-speed railway linking Chengdu and Guiyang in Southwest China has been completed, said the construction firm Tuesday.

Work will soon begin on a potential site for a lab to accommodate China's radioactive waste.

China plans to boost financial support for pig farmers to stabilize production after the spread of African swine fever has reduced herds in the country.

A delegation of UN envoys from eight countries has visited Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to gain a better understanding of the region's achievements from de-radicalization to poverty eradication.

Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will be a major priority for the provincial government, according to Guangdong Governor Ma Xingrui.

Beijing's Tian'anmen Square will be temporarily closed from Saturday evening to Sunday morning to facilitate preparations for the celebration of the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China, authorities said.

The first Red Cross academy in the world, jointly built by the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) and Soochow University, has been established in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, according to the RCSC.

China will raise the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Wednesday, the country's top economic planner said Tuesday.

China Railway 24th Bureau Group, a Shanghai-based construction and engineering firm, has finished and delivered a major section of support infrastructure for the Beijing Daxing International Airport, according to a statement from the company.

Known for its lush natural scenery, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region aims to better benefit from its pristine setting, Lu Xinshe, Party secretary of the region, said at a news conference in Beijing on Monday.

Chinese railway police captured 11,775 fugitives during the summer vacation travel rush that ended Saturday, said the Ministry of Public Security Sunday.

Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, is mulling whether to punish subway passengers who make a lot of noise, including playing loud music.

Shanghai on Saturday launched an artificial intelligence investment fund to support the city's pledge to build a first-class AI innovative ecosystem by 2021.

A total of 606,700 people have signed up for the first phase of testing of China's unified qualification exam for legal professionals this year, according to the Ministry of Justice.

China's first national radio station dedicated to residents of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area launched Sunday morning.

Construction started Saturday on a memorial hall for the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Shanghai.

China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, has identified 93 new pulsars since October 2017, the research team announced Friday.

Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.

Beijing Daxing International Airport completed its largest official comprehensive test on Friday, marking steady progress toward the start of commercial operations by the end of September.

China and Germany will continue to intensify cooperation in the security sphere to meet the growing regional and global security challenges, said top officials from the security sectors in both countries.

China has started to build a new production base for soft copper clad laminate, one of the key components used in the construction of 5G base stations, in Jiangyin, East China's Jiangsu province, according to the Science and Technology Daily Thursday.

Rural residents will have better access to online shopping once all of China's villages have convenient connections to delivery services, according to the country's transportation regulator.

About 10 Hong Kong police officers have been invited to join the celebrations for the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China in Beijing on Oct1, National Day.

China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) has allocated 30 billion yuan (about $4.2 billion) to help rural people settle in cities in the latest urbanization push.

Shanghai on Wednesday unveiled 100 public health measures aimed at building it into a world-class healthy city by 2030.

China's self-developed docking guidance system has completed the first verification test in low visibility conditions at the new Beijing Daxing International Airport, according to its developer.

The flag of a major international skills event was handed over to Shanghai at the closing ceremony of the 45th WorldSkills Competition in Kazan, Russia, on Tuesday.

Investment deals worth 55.58 billion yuan ($7.85 billion) were reached during the 12th China-Northeast Asia Expo, which concluded Tuesday in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin province.

Heavy floods have hit many parts of China since the start of the flood season due to severe rainfall this year, and preparations should be made for flood control in autumn, an official said Tuesday.

Test flights in low visibility conditions were completed at the new Beijing Daxing International Airport on Monday evening, paving the way for it to be operational before Sept 30, according to the country's civil aviation regulator.

China will host the Global Lawyers Forum from Dec 9 to 10 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, the All China Lawyers Association said on Tuesday.