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 […]
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, […]
China has vowed to further promote the development of transport infrastructures in Tibet to make travels on “the roof of the world” much easier. The Ministry of Transport (MOT) said in a guideline that China aims to expand highways in the autonomous region to 110,000 kilometers by 2020. China plans to complete a primary network […]
ASEAN Member States have strongly condemned the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Eastern Ukraine in a statement issued to the press on Sunday. In a statement on the tragic incident, ASEAN foreign ministers expressed shock at the tragic deaths of the 298 people of multiple nationalities on board the airline and called for […]
Top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng on Thursday said cross-Strait ties need to be handled attentively but have a bright future, when meeting with Taiwan politician Yao Eng-chi. “We must cherish the hard-won situation of peaceful development of cross-Strait relations,” Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said here when […]
China’s central government has spared no efforts to support Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability, and will continue the endeavor through its work in foreign affairs, says Song Zhe, the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in an article written for South China Morning Post. The […]
In light of fresh sanctions from the West, the Russian government will shift the focus of budget spending toward more generous support for the defense sector, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. “Pressure mounted on Russia would affect our budget policy, with more emphasis to be made on defense and security spending,” Interfax news agency […]
Chinese-speaking Internet users are increasingly able to type the address of a website into a browser using Chinese characters rather than the Latin alphabet. On Thursday, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)formally launched two top-level domain names using Chinese characters, the Chinese parallels to “.com” and “.net.” The Chinese domain names were approved in […]
A drilling operation by the HYSY 981 rig has been completed off a Xisha island in the South China Sea, China’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday. Quoting China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and China Oilfield Services Limited, ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the Chinese companies began the drilling operation off Zhongjian Island, one of the […]
China and the United States on Tuesday held here the first-ever vice-ministerial level talks on anti-terrorism cooperation. At the talks, Chinese and U.S. officials exchanged views on the current anti-terror situation and reached broad consensus on deepening cooperation between the two countries in the regard. Emphasizing the terrorist nature of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, […]