The report, titled China's Response to Climate Change Policy and Action in 2015 is an assessment of the steps that have been taken to both reduce emissions and clean up the air in the country. Among the achievements laid-out in the analysis, the gove...
Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement Signed The CEPA process got underway in 2003 with the signing of an initial agreement. It came into full force a year later. That agreement has been augmented by a series of supplements, furt...
Sixteen students from the Beijing Midi School of Music have been busted for drug use after police launched a surprise raid at the school. Authorities swooped into the Midi dorms on Tuesday, detaining suspects ranging in age from 17 to 29 after their...
Nestled between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes mountain range on the east, Chile's producers have traditionally thrived in this Mediterranean-like climate. But with temperatures rising and rains becoming scarcer, producers are being forc...
With the success of online bookstores, many traditional bookstore chains have, in recent years, either declared bankruptcy or cut back their business activities. This has made many people wonder whether physical 'bricks and mortar' bookstores will so...
Peral Zhu is one of those enjoying Black Friday in China. Zhu says she used to live in the US and she misses Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year in that country. I love buying shoes and I used to stock up on them on Black Friday. But a...
Finance officials from both sides have signed the Agreement on Trade in Services under the framework of the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement. A previous agreement the Special Administrative Region signed last year with n...
Following a 3-day meeting among the top brass of the PLA this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the head of the Central Military Commission, has announced a series of planned changes for the organizational structure of the Chinese milit...
The Hong Kong Highways Department has confirmed for the first time the Hong Kong section of the bridge won't be completed by the original plan of the end of next year. There has been a lot of speculation surrounding the delays, but no official confir...
China to Increase Investment in Africa Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming says future cooperation will focus more on strengthening infrastructure construction in Africa and helping the continent to realize industrialization and agricultural moderniza...
Czech PM Calls for Close Ties with China Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka is leading a delegation of politicians and business leaders to China this week. Sobotka says the Czech Republic is now actively promoting the 16+1 mechanism among China an...
According to the National Population Census in 2010, there are 13 million unregistered people in China, accounting for 1 percent of its population. The Public Security Ministry declared last week that it would help these citizens obtain proper recogn...
Wang Yi has pledged that China will continuously help African countries with their economic development and enhance cooperation for what he called 'win-win' results. He said President Xi Jinping will expound China's new concepts for developing China-...
Following the morning session of the China-CEE summit, the leaders from the 16 Central and Eastern European nations joined Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on a train ride from Suzhou to Shanghai, hitting speeds of around 300 kilometers per hour on the 100...
Under the new plans, active civil servants in China will not be employed as heads of national trade associations. And no ranks of administrative title will be given to the heads of national trade associations. The plans also say that heads of nationa...
