Xi extends congratulations on 20th anniversary of Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni's coronation

Chinese taikonauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze will carry out the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceflight mission, scheduled for launch at 4:27 am Wednesday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, the China Manned Space Agency announced at a press conference on Tuesday. Of the three taikonauts, Wang, the only female […]

Yao Ming has stepped down as president of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and vice chairman Guo Zhenming was appointed the new chief, it was announced on Thursday. The former Houston Rockets All-Star center was first elected as CBA president in February 2017 and later became chairman of the board of CBA Company. Yao was […]

While Australia, the US and a handful of other Western countries turn a blind eye to their severe human rights issues at home, in the meantime they point their fingers at other countries, which says a lot about their hypocrisy on human rights, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Wednesday, in response to […]

Following the recent resolutions reached between China and India on issues concerning the border area, frontline troops of both sides are carrying out relevant work and making smooth progress, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Friday. Lin made the remarks at a routine press briefing in response to a question about Indian media […]

Editor's Note: On October 1, as the nation celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a ship carrying around 80 Chinese nationals and their foreign family members arrived safely at the Port of Limassol, Cyprus, as part of the country's evacuation operation as tensions continue to rise in […]

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday afternoon inspected the cities of Anqing and Hefei in east China's Anhui Province. Xi visited the Liuchi Alley in Tongcheng City under Anqing and the Hefei Binhu Science City. During the visits, he learnt about the local efforts to carry forward […]

Xi congratulates Taye Atske Selassie on taking office as Ethiopian president

The remains of Wu Bangguo, former chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, China's top legislature, were cremated in Beijing on Monday. Xi Jinping, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, Han Zheng and other leaders paid their final respects to Wu at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. Hu Jintao sent a […]

China stands ready to work with Australia to continue properly resolving issues of each other's concerns through dialogue and consultation, so as to build more mature and stable bilateral relations for the benefit of the two peoples, Mao Ning, spokesperson of China's Foreign Ministry, said at a regular press conference on Thursday, when asked for […]