In August, China's exports grew 7.1 percent year-on-year in terms of US dollars, lower than expected. Does this mean the driving forces supporting China's better-than-expected export performance over the past two years have changed? As developed economies increase interest rates and overseas demand for Chinese products gradually declines, how will China's exports perform going forward? […]
Following the release of a report by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and the cyber security company 360 on the results of investigations into thousands of malicious cyberattacks on China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, China's Foreign Ministry lodged solemn representations with the US embassy on Sunday. The ministry strongly condemned the actions of the […]
Xi Jinping (center), general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attends a reception on Sunday to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, which falls on Aug 1. Xi, who is also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, is joined by other members of […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) The world's population has grown at a fast space during the past two centuries. The global population was only 1 billion in the early 19th century but it increased to 6.14 billion at the turn of this century and is inching toward 8 billion today. According to World Population Prospects […]
A New York Times op-ed of July 9, 2022, by a former US deputy trade representative pressed the panic button over a July 2022 special report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency that says China currently dominates global solar PV (photovoltaic) supply chains. According to the report, China’s share in all the manufacturing stages of […]
The US administration's actions are a classic example of lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own feet. The United States has been trying to portray China as a "threat" to global peace and security, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, while delivering a speech at George Washington University in May, outlining the […]
Villagers play drums at home in Rasekam village of Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Feb 24, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) China has always attached the utmost importance to human rights and social development, especially in relation to the ethnic groups living in the country's border areas, and taken serious measures […]
Editor's note: While according priority to safeguarding people's lives and health, the Chinese government has always been trying to strike a balance between epidemic control and economic development. Four experts share their views on the issue with China Daily. (MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY) The sporadic outbreaks of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus […]
File photo shows the morning view of the Lujiazui area in Pudong, East China's Shanghai. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Those observing that foreign companies are leaving China to support the claim that China's economy is declining are doing so despite the evidence to the contrary. The outward flow of some low added-value production elements and economic […]
Gulnara Tolmacheva from Russia teaches Russian at the China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, April 28, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) How can a German who has been to Xinjiang only once, 15 years ago as a tourist, come up with a report about forced labor in China's Xinjiang Uygur […]
An employee introduces 5G-enabled artificial intelligence at the Guizhou Big Data Exhibition Center in Guiyang, Guizhou province, May 26, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The digital economy is developing at an unprecedented speed, having a wide range of impacts. It is becoming a key force in reshaping the global economic structure and changing the global competitive […]
Given the changes that have taken place in the global geopolitical landscape since its current Strategic Concept was adopted in 2010, the latest edition of the Strategic Concept that is set to be endorsed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders at their summit in Madrid later this month will no doubt have evolved in […]
Many people may think that China’s dynamic clearing policy to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is “unsustainable” because of the highly infectious nature of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. However, it is up to every country to decide what policy it uses to contain the pandemic. The dynamic clearing policy is a public health […]
The Western media have been playing up China's new security agreement with the Solomon Islands, the first of its kind signed by China with a Pacific island nation. In particular, the agreement has evoked a lot of criticism and hostility from the US, which immediately sent a delegation led by White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt […]
Editor's note: China's dynamic clearing policy has helped save lives and kept the novel coronavirus largely at bay. The pandemic, if out of control, will hinder growth, too. In its fight against the pandemic, China puts people first and follows a people-centered development philosophy to minimize the impact of the pandemic on economic and social […]
President Xi Jinping holds a meeting with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet via video link in Beijing, capital of China, May 25, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) In her statement on Saturday, at the end of her official visit to China over the previous six days, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights […]
Editor's note: The US Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes have negative spillover effects on the global economy, with its monetary policy decisions having a significant impact on the global stock market. But the US, given the dollar's dominance of the international monetary system, cares least about the global economy. Four experts share their views on […]
The return capsule of the Shenzhou XIII manned spaceship lands successfully at the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, April 16, 2022. (PHOTO/XINHUA) The nation welcomed its three heroic astronauts home on Saturday. At 9:57 am, the reentry module carrying the astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu touched down […]
Skyscrapers border a lush green landscape in Shenzhen's central business district. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) In just four decades, China's economy has achieved an unprecedented level of wealth and development, and, until recently, its upward trajectory of economic growth and prosperity seemed set to continue. But as political pressures and the novel coronavirus pandemic push […]
In terms of geopolitical impact, nothing could be more important than the United States' shift from strategic cooperation to strategic competition with China. This change has darkened many observers' views of China's economic prospects, as indicated by a Bruegel report released late last year. The assumption, it seems, is that China has no choice but […]
HONG KONG, Mar 21, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The China-based novel vaccines company – Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd. (“Recbio” or the “Company”, stock code: 2179.HK, today announced the proposed listing of its H Shares on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Hong Kong Stock Exchange”). […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) Planning plays a key role in China's economic development. China's economic planning combines economic data and projections with Chinese wisdom and intuition along with knowledge of society and the dreams and aspirations of the people, and demonstrates the methodological capacity to process immediate realities and infer from them the trends […]
Over the past weekend, China held its annual two sessions meetings and declared a GDP growth target for 2022 of around 5.5 percent. The term “two sessions” refers to the annual meetings of the nation’s top legislature, the National People's Congress, and the top political advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee. […]
HONG KONG, Mar 8, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – China has seen the fastest growth of its ice and snow economy in recent years and has become the world’s largest market in the sector, according to a report released by Jilin University on Thursday. Jilin University Key Laboratory of Ice and Snow Tourism […]
Special operation soldiers line up at a military port in Zhanjiang City, South China's Guangdong province, Jan 15, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) In a draft budget report submitted to China's national legislature on Saturday, the central government has proposed a defense budget in line with the country's national defense needs and its commitment to safeguarding […]
A citizen receives COVID-19 nucleic acid test at a COVID-19 testing site in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu province, Feb 18, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Wall Street Journal, a typical China critic, has recently acted out of character and given quite some credit to China's "dynamic zero-COVID policy." In an article titled China's […]
Editor's Note: Four decades of reform and opening-up have not only turned China into the world's second-largest economy but also changed its people's way of life. With Beijing hosting the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, a veteran journalist with China Daily analyzes the changes in people's attitude toward sports. Playing sports, especially organized sports, used to […]
The US State Department is up to more of its tricks. It is no coincidence that reports of an internal request to allow the departure of US diplomats and their families from China have appeared one week before the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Or that the supposed justification for the withdrawal is […]
Editor's Note: China Daily's Chen Meiling interviewed Yuan Xin, a professor of demography at the Population and Development Research Institute, School of Economics of Nankai University in Tianjin, on the significance of the latest population data. Following are the extracts from the interview: Q: The Chinese mainland's population reached about 1.41 billion at the end […]
China's move to send 39 warplanes into the Taiwan island's "air defense identification zone" on Sunday, the largest number this year, can be viewed as a response to the war games staged by the United States and Japan near Taiwan. After all, the People's Liberation Army will never tolerate any infringements on China's sovereignty and […]