Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday met here a delegation of people from various sectors in Taiwan, led by former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) party Lien Chan. The pursuit of a just cause and people’s common aspirations is unstoppable, said Xi during the meeting at […]
China’s ambassador to Australia has called on the nation to sign up to the Belt and Road Initiative, saying Australia will benefit from the initiative. Speaking at the Belt and Road Initiative in Australia conference in Darwin on Wednesday, Ambassador Cheng Jingye said China will work with other countries to uphold free trade in the […]
Chinese Ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming said that the U.S.-China trade dispute poses a severe challenge to the world economic order and reflects three conflicts of views between the two countries. Liu said in a signed article published on The Sunday Telegraph that the United States recently went back on its words after reaching a […]
New concepts for understanding the world will be presented at an international security forum in Beijing later this week, as previous ones promoted by the West can no longer adapt to reality, the forum’s organizer said on Monday. The participants “are expected to come up with some new concepts for understanding the world,” Yan Xuetong, […]
Visiting Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Peter O’Neill said Monday that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting, which will be held in Papua New Guinea in November, provides an enormous opportunity for many economies in the region. O’Neill, who arrived here Sunday for a two-day visit to Fiji since being elected as […]
Beijing’s new airport will be put into operation by the end of September in 2019, according to Civil Aviation Administration of China(CAAC) at a meeting held at the airport’s construction site on the morning of July 6, 2018. CAAC officially releases a comprehensive management and control plan about the new airport’s construction and preparation work […]
A new flight linking Hohhot, capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with Russia’s capital Moscow was launched Sunday. It is the first direct flight linking the region and a European city. An Airbus 330, with 207 passengers onboard, departed from Baita International Airport at around 11 a.m., and will arrive at Sheremetyevo International […]
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Berlin on Sunday for the fifth round of China-Germany intergovernmental consultations and an official visit to the European country. The trip marks Li’s fourth visit to Germany as Chinese premier, and the intergovernmental conference will be the first of its kind since the two countries’ new cabinets took office […]
Russia will start testing its new heavy-attack drone Okhotnik (Hunter) this year, TASS news agency reported Sunday, citing a defense industry source. A prototype of the long-haul unmanned aerial vehicle has been created and the test flights will begin this year, the source said, adding that the work is being carried out at a plant […]
UK Prime Minister announces a new package of UK-China creative and cultural collaboration today, including commercial deals for a new Eden Project and LEGOLAND Discovery Centre in China.
As China’s economy diversifies, and as the country moves from a heavily industrialised to a knowledge-based, innovation-driven economy, there are ambitions for culture and creative industries to reach 5% of China’s national GDP by 2020. The UK is seen as a strong partner for China to achieve its ambitions in this sector, with creative industries […]