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China's multipronged pushes for innovation will accelerate productivity growth and give rise to more emerging industries, in turn consolidating the momentum of the country's high-quality development, economists and executives said....

China's busiest port, the Port of Ningbo Zhoushan in the eastern province of Zhejiang, saw its cargo throughput exceed 1.25 billion tons in 2022, ranking first globally for a 14th consecutive year, according to the port....

Beijing's top officials highlighted the city's Haidian district in economic and scientific development during inspection tours conducted after the Chinese New Year holiday....

Five Japanese ships illegally broke into the territorial waters of Diaoyu Island on Monday, according to a spokesperson of the China Coast Guard....

About 226 million passenger trips were made during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, a significant increase from last year but still fewer than 2019....

Southwest China's Sichuan province has taken an exploratory step to relax birth registration, aiming for a more sound population surveillance system and balanced population growth....

There is currently a low level of transmission of COVID-19 in China, and the country's situation is steadily improving, Mi Feng, a spokesman for the National Health Commission, said on Monday....

China will halt the accreditation of foreign diplomas and degrees obtained solely via online courses starting from the 2023 spring semester (or fall semester in the southern hemisphere), as travel is once again possible to major overseas study destination...

China's fiscal revenue grew 9.1 percent year-on-year in 2022 to 20.37 trillion yuan ($3.02 trillion) after excluding the impact of value-added-tax credit rebates, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday....

A National Immigration Administration official said on Monday that 2.87 million cross-border trips were made during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, up 120.5 percent year-on-year....

A police cadet and her father are being praised for their bravery after they rescued five people from a car that was sinking in a ditch in Fuyang city, Anhui province, CCTV News reported....

After rolling out more than 70 pancakes shaped like water drops, an amazingly realistic pink rose was formed in the hands of Zhang Ping in Loude town of Xintai, a county-level city of Tai'an, Shandong province....

In Rongcheng, Shandong province, whirling snow and whooper swans created beautiful winter scenery that attracted visitors, amateur shutterbugs and professional photographers during the Spring Festival....

Huzhong district in the Daxinganling region of Heilongjiang province — widely known as China's coldest place — plunged to chilly depths recently as a cold front brought temperatures as low as -51.8 C....

Shanghai's enterprise relief to give economy a jolt...

More than 40 new projects have begun construction in Xiong'an New Area in Hebei province, and a ceremony was held on Saturday to mark the moment....

A group of migratory birds, including Steller's and white-tailed sea eagles, as well as several vultures, were spotted recently at Longshan Lake in Hunchun, Jilin province....

China's cultural sector maintained steady growth in terms of revenue last year, with new business models becoming more resilient, official data showed on Monday....

Given the backdrop of the three-year-long fight against COVID-19, China has achieved an annual growth rate at 4.5 percent from 2020 to 2022, outpacing the world average of 1.8 percent....

Online sales of China's farm produce rose 9.2 percent year-on-year to 531.38 billion yuan ($78.58 billion) in 2022, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed on Monday....

Travel demand in Zhejiang province recovered significantly during this year's Spring Festival, one of the longest vacations that people use for travel. The number of tourists during the holiday period surpassed that of 2019, the year before the start ...

From Jan 7 to Sunday, more than 3,200 passengers took the ferry between the coastal areas of East China's Fujian province and the outlying islands of Kinmen and Matsu of Taiwan, according to the Taiwan affairs authority of Fujian....

During the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, 120 A-level scenic spots in Central China's Hubei province saw tourist volume and revenue return to the level in 2019, with 64 hitting a record high, local authorities said on Monday....

On the first day of the Year of the Rabbit, Li, a citizen of North China's Tianjin municipality, was preparing a red packet for her daughter, a monetary gift traditionally given by the elderly to the younger generation during the Spring Festival....

Last October, renowned Hong Kong director and comedian Stephen Chow said in his first social media post that he is...

An industrial park specializing in textiles and garments in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, is making rapid progress in attracting industries from Guangzhou and other major cities around the country....

The Ministry of Education has called on parents and students to boycott illegal competition activities during the ongoing winter break and view the competitions in a rational manner....

Georgia received the European Olympic Committees' flag on Saturday as the host country of the 2025 European Winter Youth Olympic Festival, to be held in the country's Bakuriani winter resort, the Georgian National Olympic Committee announced....

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Saturday congratulated Petr Pavel on his victory in the Czech presidential elections....

Elections for the chairmanship of the opposition United National Movement party are underway for the second day by electronic voting....

The Revenue Service of the Georgian Finance Ministry on Sunday responded to media reports alleging an import of sanctioned goods to Georgia from a Russian company [under sanctions imposed by the international community against Russia] and elucidated that ...

China saw soaring online and offline consumption orders through WeChat - Tencent Holdings' social networking and payment tool - during the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, as the country's consumption continued to bounce back....

China's online retail sales went up 4 percent year-on-year to 13.79 trillion yuan ($2.04 trillion) in 2022, said the Ministry of Commerce....

A rebound in travel and consumption during the Spring Festival holiday illustrates the resilience of the Chinese economy and supports forecasts of a further recovery, analysts have said....

Here are some of the most striking images from around the world over the past week....

The value of China's trade in services grew 12.9 percent on a yearly basis to 5.98 trillion yuan ($884.44 billion) in 2022, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed....

China's consumption witnessed a strong rebound during the just-completed Spring Festival holiday, with its sales revenue of consumption-related sectors having increased 12.2 percent from the same period last year. The country's box office generate...

The first Spring Festival holiday since China optimized its COVID-19 response policies saw the hustle and bustle return to tourist attractions and cultural venues, a strong signal that the country's economy will see a robust recovery this year....

Tourists visit the ice and snow recreation zone in the Milky Way Mountain scenic spot on Jan 27. The scenic spot deep in the Taihang Mountain of Xingtai, North China's Hebei province has attracted many tourist crowds as the city of Xingtai developed w...

The appeal of country life and finding inner peace in a quiet, ancient town close to grasslands and lakes, far from vehicles and laptops, drew large numbers of tourists to Yunnan province's Dali Bai autonomous prefecture during this year's Spring ...

Rural doctor Kuwanam Imin makes home visits to villagers every day. Recently, he has been paying closer attention to patients with existing health conditions in the wake of the country's new focus on rural areas as part of its current COVID-19 respons...

More flights left and arrived at Beijing's airports during the week-long Spring Festival holiday this year than the previous year, according to the North China Regional Administration of Civil Aviation Administration of China....

Early intervention and treatment have prevented all senior COVID-19 patients in a village in Inner Mongolia autonomous region from getting severe symptoms or dying from the virus, a village doctor said....

On the occasion in December of the 70th anniversary of the establishing of the Patriotic Health Campaign, President Xi Jinping called for launching more targeted patriotic health campaigns to build a healthy China....