A 20-story-tall Long March 2F carrier rocket blasts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert, June 17, 2021. (WANG JIANGBO / FOR CHINA DAILY) Last September, three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after a successful three-month mission in space. The Shenzhou XII spacecraft crew became the first to stay in […]
Editor's Note: China has made unprecedented economic achievements over the past decades thanks to the demographic dividends it enjoyed. But the falling fertility rate threatens to rob the country of those demographic dividends, so it has further relaxed the family planning policy to prevent that from happening, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily in the […]
Many in the world have been led to believe that China and democracy are mutually contradictory. This comes as no surprise, because with help of the media and sometimes academia, this narrative has been pushed beyond facts and verifiable truth－and because democracy appears to be vested exclusively with Western criteria and traits. As a set […]
Statistics from the General Administration of Customs on Wednesday showed that China's foreign trade in goods in the first three quarters totaled 28.33 trillion yuan ($4.4 trillion), up 22.7 percent year-on-year. Exports increased by 24.5 percent and imports by 22 percent. This speaks volumes about the resilience of China's foreign trade. The fact that the […]
A boy is pictured inside a train traveling on the Tanzania-Zambia (TAZARA) Railway, Sept 17, 2011. The rail link has transported more than 30 million metric tons of cargo and over 40 million passengers since it started operating in 1976. (PHOTO / XINHUA) A few years ago, I found myself on the platform of a […]
Editor's Note: China has made unprecedented economic achievements over the past decades thanks to the demographic dividends it enjoyed. But the falling fertility rate threatens to rob the country of those demographic dividends, so it had to ease the family planning policy to prevent that from happening, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily in the […]
The rise of China with vision, diplomacy and economic might present a great real-time drama of the 21st century As the People’s Republic of China celebrates the 72nd birthday on Oct 1, its rise in recent decades has reshaped the landscape of global politics. After joining the World Trade Organization about two decades ago, China […]
Visitors buy jewelry at the 13th China-Northeast Asia Expo, which is being held in Changchun, Jilin province. (WANG ZHENDONG / FOR CHINA DAILY) China's economy continues to feel the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with a sharper-than-expected slowdown in July as the Delta variant disrupted supply chains and undermined consumer confidence. Pandemic shocks and […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) Universal Beijing Resort, the largest of its kind in the world, will start its trial run on Wednesday and formal operation on Sept 20. The theme resort signals the entry of another international chain into China's thriving theme park industry. From 2008 to 2017, theme park attendance in China increased […]
(CAI MENG / CHINA DAILY) The dual-circulation development strategy, which takes the domestic market as the mainstay while letting domestic and foreign markets reinforce each other, was devised amid China's uneven development－not only between eastern, central and western regions, but also between north and south as well as between city and country. We have made […]
HONG KONG, Aug 21, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Li Jiaqi, dubbed China’s “King of Livestreaming E-commerce,” is set to host a pioneering fashion show format at the iconic Shanghai K11 Art Mall on August 19-22. Li is taking Li Jiaqi WoW, his shopping information and recommendation program, offline for the first time, […]
HONG KONG, Aug 21, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The arrival and subsequent evolution of livestreaming technology, and its integration with e-commerce, has radically changed China’s consumer market. Different from traditional online shopping, livestreaming e-commerce features better experience and more interaction that increasingly more consumers are gravitating toward. Amid this fast-growing medium, one […]
HONG KONG, Aug 20, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Li Jiaqi, the most influential figure in China’s livestreaming e-commerce space, recently announced his latest move – his hosting of a new fashion show at the iconic Shanghai K11 Art Mall, to be held between August 19-22. The show will feature five up-and-coming Chinese […]
HONG KONG, Aug 20, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Li Jiaqi, known for his successes as a livestreaming e-commerce influencer, is set to host a fashion show at the iconic Shanghai K11 Art Mallon August 19-22. The show will feature both online and offline elements, in line with recent shopping trends in China. […]
Editor's Note: The Delta variant, given it is more contagious, could severely disrupt human activity and therefore its spread to 48 cities in 18 provinces of the Chinese mainland poses bigger risk to the economy. Can the stricter anti-pandemic measures implemented by the central and local governments to curb the resurgence of the novel coronavirus […]
HONG KONG, Aug 11, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – On June 10, 2021, the National Health Commission, leading eight ministries and commissions, issued the “Notice on Distributing the Special Rectification Work Plan for Combating Illegal Medical Aesthetic Services.” On August 9, 2021, ‘The People’s Daily’ published an article entitled – ‘Medical aesthetic sector […]
(CAI MENG / CHINA DAILY) There is little doubt that China's full-year economic growth rate will exceed 6 percent year-on-year in 2021. Although China has essentially brought COVID-19 under control domestically, and the nation's economic recovery occurred earlier than elsewhere, it has not yet reversed a continuous economic growth downtrend first seen around 2010. Following […]
Soldiers of the "Hard-boned Sixth Company" of the 74th Army Group of the People's Liberation Army take part in a battle drill in a coastal area of Guangdong province on June 1, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA) At the recent G7, NATO and United States-European Union meetings, relevant countries and organizations issued joint communiques or declarations, […]
(CAI MENG / CHINA DAILY) On June 28, the People's Bank of China, the central bank, announced in a statement released after a quarterly meeting of its monetary policy committee that it will work to "strike a balance between economic recovery and risk prevention", a phrase worthy of attention. In the second half, a major […]
China’s Wang Shun claimed the men’s 200 metres individual medley gold medal on Friday, becoming the event’s first new Olympic champion since 2000 after the retirement of four-time winner Michael Phelps. Wang touched in 1 minute 55.00 seconds ahead of Britain’s Duncan Scott (1:55.28) and Switzerland’s Jeremy Desplanches (1:56.17). American Michael Andrew boasted this year’s […]