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A world-class venue dedicated to promoting the rich heritage of Chinese opera is nearing completion in Hong Kong.
Compared with that in developed markets, China’s wealth management industry remains immature even after 10 years’ explosive growth, said researchers during a forum today.
Sales by China's major excavator producers expanded faster in April, adding to evidence that economic activity remains strong.
Photo taken on May 4, 2018 shows Yuen Po Street Bird Garden in Mong Kok reopened after it's temporarily closed to the public for 21 days on April 13 following the detection of the H5N6 avian influenza virus in an environmental sample collected from a bird cage holding a hill myna at a pet bird shop.
Peking University President Lin Jianhua has apologized after his mispronunciation of a word at its 120th anniversary celebration triggered online criticism.
While much of China basks in the sunshine and warmth of spring, Jiao Xiangzhao, a weather observer in Jilin province, still faces wintry conditions.
A man films the lava in the Leilani Estates subdivision, May 5, 2018, in Pahoa, Hawaii.
Heavy fog rolls in during tower rollback of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with InSight Mars lander onboard before lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force base in California, U.S., May 5, 2018.
Jiang Mingli, a sophomore at Yunnan University in Kunming, launched the squirrel micro blog on April 9, and it has already received over a million clicks.
China should take cautious steps to promote financial innovation amid efforts to promote opening up in Hainan province, according to law experts.
The Palace Museum will open its first nursing room this summer.
Entitled Jin Xiu Zhong Hua ("Excellent Brocades of China"), the exhibition — organized by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology — is being hosted by Beihang University and is on display at the Beihang Art Gallery.
China has more than 300,000 registered organ donors, according to the China Organ Transplant Development Foundation.
A gold ring priced at $19,490 on eBay is actually an extremely rare Soviet-era spy camera used by the KGB.
Troops from the Philippines and the United States kicked off on Monday a series of joint military exercises designed to hone their interoperability skills in fighting terrorism and humanitarian assistance.
Two black-winged Stilts rest on the shoal near Anhai Town of Jinjiang City, southeast China's Fujian Province, May 5, 2018.
Three people have been killed after a tube fell and hit a car in an underground car park in east China's Jiangsu Province, local police said Monday.
Leading dairy firm Yili Group said on Sunday that information circulated online recently is untrue and is part of a "malicious attack" on the company.
In this handout photo provided by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte is seen with her brother Prince Louis in a photo taken by the Duchess of Cambridge on Princess Charlotte's third birthday at Kensington Palace on May 2, 2018 in London, United Kingdom.
Beijing-based computer giant Lenovo Group will be excluded from the Hang Seng Index starting from June 4, the Hang Seng Indexes Co said in a statement on its website on Friday.
The ancient town of Pingyao has decided to ban all businesses selling foods that have a strong smell, as an effort to improve its environment.
A woman was asked to check in her "liquid sand mobile phone case" by security staff at an airport in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, recently, Beijing Youth Daily reported.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake that rocked Southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008, claiming more than 80,000 lives.
A court in India Monday deferred the hearing of leading Bollywood actor Salman Khan's plea to suspend his five-year jail term in a deer poaching case to July 17.
Tibet has seen dramatic growth in tourism revenue in the first quarter this year.
Last month, some young people in Nigeria were about to complete their mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps program after graduation from local universities when a Chinese firm held a job fair inside their camp.
Three men, all in their sixties, pose during a fashion shoot in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday witnessed the signing of a series of cooperation agreements on trade between the two countries, during Li's visit to the country.
Following the debut of the all-new BMW X3 at Auto China 2018 in Beijing, the German automaker's Chinese joint venture, BMW Brilliance, announced the model's recommended retail price of 399,800($63,131.17) to 585,800 yuan with orders being taken nationwide as of April 26.
Chinese-built trains are offering both Argentine commuters and conductors better rides, according to Fernando Pintos, who has taught would-be conductors for about 36 years.
Chinese scientists have come up with a new membrane material which can efficiently separate salt from water and has other water purification functions.
Li Shawei displays a dog-shaped cake at a bakery in Kunming City, capital of Southeast China's Yunnan Province, May 6, 2018.
Leaders of China, Japan and South Korea will meet for the first time since 2015, to reboot interaction between the three Asian nations, cement friendly cooperation and brighten the prospects of regional peace, stability and economic prosperity.
Photo taken by Kevin Ferrioli from a beach in Dorset, the U.K., shows the incredible details of the Milky Way.
Children born at a Buddhist temple that became a temporary hospital in the aftermath of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake will celebrate their 10th birthday by participating in a film about their birth, reports West China Metropolis Daily.
Carmakers are jumping on the mobility services bandwagon in China, which is a strategic step as ride-hailing and car-sharing threaten traditional sales and also an expedient to sell their locally made electric cars, according to industry analysts.
Beijing's new international airport, which will start test operations in October 2019, announced public bidding for some of the food shops and retail outlets in its terminals is now open, according to a report by Beijing Youth Daily.
The boom in niche insurance products available for purchase online in China has some industry experts worried, reports Xinhua News Agency.
Mist drifts over Qishu Lake in Huangshan City in Anhui Province, May 4, 2018.
Chinese smartphone firms, and those in the fields of automobile, e-commerce and fast moving consumer goods, or FMCG, see opportunities in the Belt and Road Initiative to become global brands.
China has been seeing signs of recovery in its business aviation segment with global players gearing up to boost their presence in the market.
To boost industrial demand for corn and cut emissions, China has launched corn-to-ethanol pilot programs in 2004.
State Grid Beijing Electric Power Co has launched a series of initiatives to help improve the city's business environment and promote the development of local small and microbusinesses.
Chinese construction giant China Railway Group Limited (CREC) is considering exchanging debt for equity in some of its subsidiaries.
For most people, cockroaches are pests that can leave an offensive odor, transmit viruses and taint food. But Li Yanrong, an official from a kitchen waste management association, has a very different view.
Liu Jingwei works out at a gym in Changchun City, Northeast China's Jilin Province, May 4, 2018.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said raising the real income of Russian citizens is a major task for the Russian government in the coming years, according to a Kremlin transcript released on Monday.
A carrier-based helicopter landed and took off from China's first domestically developed aircraft carrier for the first time on Saturday morning, reported Global Times.
In a statement on Saturday, the White House described China's caution that foreign airlines should not refer to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as independent countries as "Orwellian nonsense".
Turkey will retaliate if the U.S. ratifies a bill halting weapons sales to the country, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Sunday.
A view of the Three Gorges Dam surrounded by fog after rainfall in Yichang City, Central China's Hubei Province, May 6, 2018.
A national association was set up on Saturday to promote the integration of artificial intelligence technology with medical care to improve services.
China's efforts to promote the use of biofuel received key impetus last month with the announcement of encouraging initial findings of a pilot project involving biodiesel in Shanghai, and from rapid progress in the adoption of bioethanol gasoline elsewhere.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday Trump's "communication style" has made her uncomfortable, and has proven to have complicated relationships in the diplomatic sphere.
At least 10 people were injured Monday after a double-decker bus crashed with a mini-bus in Hong Kong.
Overseas investments of Chinese real estate companies, which focused on the U.S. market until 2016, will target emerging Asian markets more and more in the next two years, industry reports suggest.
China sets a good example in practicing Marxism by allowing it to exist along side traditional culture and values, a Russian professor has commented.
The new base is about 100 kilometers from Chengdu, SW China's Sichuan Province and is currently home to more than 50 pandas.
Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated on Monday for his fourth term as president of Russia under the shadow of strained ties with the West.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday urged foreign companies operating in China to respect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity, abide by its laws and respect the Chinese people's national sentiments.
Overseas investors are snapping up Chinese bluechip A shares in the run-up to the reconstitution of Morgan Stanley Capital International's emerging markets index.
An embarrassing pronunciation mistake by the head of one of China's top universities has become a major talking point on social media platforms with many welcoming his apology but others wondering how a prominent academic could make such an error.
As new technologies begin to penetrate most aspects of existence, Hong Kong is riding high on the global list of "smart cities" as it looks for new ways of making life safer, easier and more comfortable.
Heavy rains did not deter huge crowds from gathering in Lagos, Nigeria's economic hub for the maiden edition of Chinese Kung Fu Festival on Saturday.
Angry WeChat users are raising concerns about the security and privacy of their accounts, after a number of 'vendors' with online shops on Taobao claimed they can surreptitiously retrieve deleted messages from any phones' WeChat account.
Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed the importance of studying Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech commemorating Karl Marx.
China's semiconductor or chip industry will see explosive growth as the country accelerates plans to develop the market and cut heavy reliance on imports amid a trade standoff with the United States.
Aerial photo taken on May 5, 2018 shows Yachihe Bridge of Guiyang-Qianxi highway in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
Team China won the final 3-0 and claimed the title of the event.
Russian soldiers participate in the final rehearsal for the V-Day parade in Moscow, Russia, on May 6, 2018.
China's push to further expand production and consumption of bioethanol this year in order to clean up the environment, while seeking more channels to consume corn and grain stockpiles, has created a huge biofuel market.
Passing through the mountains in Indonesia's West Java province, a silver "dragon" appears in front of us. This, is the Cimanuk River, cradle and "mother river" of West Java people.
President Donald Trump is not obligated to testify for the ongoing Russian probe, his lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Sunday.
Commander of the Guard Christoph Graf and the originator of the project Peter Portmann present the prototype of the new PVC 3-D printed helmet for the Vatican’s elite Swiss Guard prior to the swearing-in ceremony of the new recruits at the Vatican, May 6, 2018.
It is natural for the Civil Aviation Administration of China to require foreign airlines not to list the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan as though they are independent countries.
Visitors poured into the reopened Karl Marx House over the weekend, as enthusiasm runs high for the great thinker's bicentennial birth anniversary in his hometown of Trier, southwestern Germany.
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) recently fined three commercial banks for improper practices in wealth management.
The president of Peking University made a public apology this weekend for mispronouncing a traditional Chinese idiom at the school's 120th anniversary ceremony.
Unknown armed men abducted six foreign nationals and their Afghan driver in Khawja Alwan area outside the northern Baghlan's provincial capital Pul-e-khumri on Sunday, a local official said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday said Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo exchanged views on the Korean Peninsula issue during a Saturday phone conversation.
Authorities in North China's Hebei Province closed an orphanage and have detained its well-known owner over the weekend in a case that has sparked discussions on whether an individual should be allowed to accumulate wealth while operating a charity.
The president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) said here Saturday that Asia's economic development will offer enormous market opportunities for developed countries, including the United States.
Remedies the Trump administration is prescribing for U.S. trade problems won't work, and forays in trade disputes with China will harm the United States, a veteran China expert with decades of experience in bilateral relations said here on Saturday.
Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Jakarta on Sunday to start his six-day trip to Indonesia and Japan, which is part of China's efforts to promote regional cooperation in East Asia against the backdrop of rising protectionism.
China's finest are ready to mix it with the world's best at Saturday's star-studded Diamond League Shanghai meet.
Four wild giant panda cubs were spotted at different times strolling around with their mothers in a nature reserve in northwestern China in recent months, authorities said on Sunday.
The U.S.-China relationship established four decades ago is the most important bilateral ties in the world today and peoples in both countries are benefiting from the deepening economic integration, former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke has said.
Researchers at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the nation's largest missile-maker, have turned their expertise to designing and producing a handheld gadget meant for homemakers and other food market shoppers.
Chinese-American scientist Sherry Chen, who was wrongfully arrested and fired due to baseless spying claims several years ago, said on Friday that she will continue to fight until she is reinstated.
The guidance system on helicopters on China's second aircraft carrier, also the first home-made one, functions well and the efficiency of transporting troops between two aircraft carriers may be enhanced.
Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday reiterated that foreign-funded enterprises should respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Chinese brand cars have been shining in the ongoing International Aleppo Fair in the country's northern city of Aleppo, with merchants stressing growing trust in the Chinese automobile industry during Syria's seven-year-old crisis.
China's giant panda research base said on Sunday that it has hatched one Chinese monal (Lophophorus lhuysii) egg, a bird as rare as the giant panda, and covering a similar range.
The national railway operator said it will adjust bullet train ticket prices on six railway lines according to passenger numbers starting from July 5, and the discounts will reach up to 35 percent.
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit Chengduo County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai Province at 5: 23 p.m. Beijing Time on Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi called on parties involved in the Korean Peninsula issue during a Saturday phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to maintain the positive momentum that could lead to a resolution.
China's securities regulator has issued draft rules on the issuance and trading of China Depositary Receipts (CDRs) for public comments.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Jakarta Sunday for an official visit to Indonesia, the first stop on his first overseas trip since the new cabinet took office in March.
Thanks to reform and opening-up, Hainan seems set to become a prosperous province with a livable ecology, and to develop an international pilot free trade zone (FTZ) by 2020 and a free port with Chinese characteristics by 2025.
Remote sensing images showed that the environment returning to normal in the Wenchuan earthquake zone ten years after the event, according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The Chinese government is setting a threshold for overseas investors who are eyeing the domestic futures market, which comes at a time when it is actively opening up the sector.
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the Marxism of modern China and a new development of Marxism in the 21st century, a senior Chinese official said on Sunday.
The Chinese team of Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin beat the German side, comprised of Timo Boll, Ruwen Filus and Patrick Franziska, 3-0 in the men's final at the world table tennis team championships in Halmstad on Sunday.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming trip to Japan is of great significance to bilateral relations as well as regional cooperation and prosperity, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua said in a recent article.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Jakarta Sunday for an official visit to Indonesia, the first stop on his first overseas trip since the new cabinet took office in March.
