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 […]
(SONG CHEN / CHINA DAILY) In his January 2017 address at the World Economic Forum, President Xi Jinping promoted global economic interdependency and warned that protectionism would produce no winners. In 2021, he called for both greater global efforts in the fight against the unprecedented public health crisis and a renewed commitment to multilateral cooperation, […]
One of the world’s best cotton producers, with exceptional quality of fabric, is Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Technological advancements have allowed machines to do most of the work that a couple of decades ago had been done by manual labor. This has resulted in sustainable growth, effective farming techniques, surge in production, an […]
A visitor (right) tries metaverse games at the 2021 International Digital Technology Exhibition and Tianyi Intelligent Ecological Expo in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Nov 11. (LI ZHIHAO / FOR CHINA DAILY) The Associated Press claimed in a Dec 27 article that China's efforts to promote self-innovation, especially its research on semiconductors, "might slow down innovation, […]
Editor's note: The year 2021 was fruitful for China on many fronts, especially the economy and diplomacy, indicating it has a promising year ahead and will continue to contribute to global economic growth and governance. Four experts share their views on these issues with China Daily: (MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY) China's timely and efficient […]
China's Foreign Ministry said that it has lodged solemn representations with Australia, Japan and the United States, deploring and rejecting their gross interference in China's internal affairs, and their fabrication of lies with the intention of smearing China and sabotaging solidarity and trust among regional countries. As expected, the virtual 2+2 meeting between the foreign […]
A view of the skyscrapers in Beijing's CBD area. (SHENG PENG / FOR CHINA DAILY) During the sixth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, there was a review of the history and major achievements of the CPC over the past century. From 1921 to 2021, the CPC has […]