China has full confidence and capability to win the battle against the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), said President Xi.
Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by phone on Wednesday at the latter's request, discussing efforts to combat the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic.
China on Wednesday expressed strong indignation over and firm opposition to the passing of a bill on Tibet-related issues by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that China has full confidence and capability to win the battle against the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
About 200 km north of China's national capital Beijing, the elevation rises abruptly, creating an obstacle for the path of people's prosperity."Villagers call the photovoltaic poles 'iron crops,' as they bring in more than 600,000 yuan a year from power generation sent to the grid," said Li.
US President Donald Trump's legal team concluded oral arguments on Tuesday in his impeachment trial in the Senate, arguing that Democrats are seeking to remove him from office over policy differences and dismissing the need for further testimony from witnesses.
China is willing to stay in communication with other countries, including Britain, in order to properly handle the issues related to prevention and control of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday in a phone talk with his British counterpart.
China's central bank on Tuesday said it will extend the closure of the interbank market and trading and clearing will be resumed on Feb. 3, as China has prolonged the Spring Festival holiday to contain the novel coronavirus epidemic.
The United Kingdom executed the final and most consequential move in a years-long balancing act on Tuesday morning, when it announced that Huawei would not be banned from building British 5G infrastructure.
Elderly people who prospered under China's opening-up are fostering lucrative new market
In its first policy meeting of 2020 that began on Tuesday, the U.S.His comments were echoed by Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, who predicted that the Fed could go through the entire year without rate changes.
Amid the expanding scale of bonds with negative interest rates worldwide, China's bond market has made sustained efforts to expand its global presence and facilitate the influx of foreign capital.
China's top economic planner has allocated a total of 300 million yuan (about 44 million U.S. dollars) to support Wuhan's battle against the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to convene an Emergency Committee meeting Thursday on the current coronavirus outbreak, said its Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a tweet on Wednesday.
At least seven people were killed and 40 others injured Wednesday after a passenger bus skidded off a mountainous road in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, police said.
Beijing will suspend the processing of exit and entry documents from Friday to Sunday, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said in a statement on Wednesday.
Tuesday brought a gleam of hope for China as at least 10 provinces, including Central China's Hubei Province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, reported a decline in the number of newly infected patients than the previous day.
A total of 16 Malaysians and Bolivians, who were passengers from a flight with two confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, are under isolation and observation in a hotel in Dongli district, Tianjin.
A person of Pakistani nationality was diagnosed with a pneumonia infection caused by the novel coronavirus in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, on Wednesday.
Hats that come with wigs attached of various lengths and colors have become a new favorite on Chinese e-commerce platforms, helping not only men who are follically challenged but women who want to dramatically transform their look.
The viral video was uploaded on Twitter with the caption, "This Arab guy calls the hotel reception to complain about a mouse in his room. Listen to how he describes the situation."
A video of two chimpanzees in a Chinese wildlife park that suggests they have a "superpower" - the ability to read a newspaper - has gone viral on social media.
An art teacher in North China's Shanxi Province is turning heavy pieces of broken machinery into busts of China's 12 zodiac animals for the upcoming Chinese New Year, which falls on January 25 this year.
To protect students' eyesight and get them to sit up straight in class, a junior high school teacher in Fushun, Northeast China's Liaoning Province balances a long dowel across the heads of two students with a bunch of bananas tied to the middle of the stick.
For all the talk of robots and drones taking over the delivery of packages, a courier in Dandong, Northeast China's Liaoning Province is way ahead of the game.
Chinese military monitored a U.S. warship that entered Chinese territorial waters without permission and warned it to leave on Saturday.
Thirty-four U.S. troops had been diagnosed with concussions and traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of the Iranian missile attack on U.S. military base in Iraq earlier this month, the Pentagon said on Friday.
The Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff in the Iranian capital on Jan. 8 was hit by two short-range TOR-M1 missiles, Iranian state IRIB TV reported Tuesday.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Monday afternoon visited the former site of the National Southwest Associated University (NSAU).
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday that the Islamic republic will leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in case the nuclear case of the country is sent to the UN Security Council.
China's most advanced J-20 stealth fighter jets assigned to an ace unit have been conducting real-combat scenario training together with powerful J-16 and agile J-10C jets, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force revealed.
U.S. private space company SpaceX launched its fourth batch of 60 Starlink satellites into space on Wednesday, in an effort to build a 12,000-strong satellite network capable of providing broadband Internet services.
The British government on Tuesday approved a restricted role for Chinese tech company Huawei in building the country's 5G network, local media reported.
The project for the development of an mRNA vaccine targeting the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been urgently approved, said Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University.
A new broad-spectrum antivirus spray has been put into use at the emergency wards of Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, protecting medical staff from the new coronavirus.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson should take advice of experts and approve Chinese tech company Huawei to help build Britain's 5G network, said two former British national security advisers Monday.
U.S. space agency NASA announced Monday that NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch a new spacecraft to snap the first pictures of the sun's north and south poles.
A total of 1.23 billion viewers from China and overseas watched a 2020 Spring Festival gala show staged and televised by the China Media Group (CMG) Friday evening, the CMG said Sunday.
Best wishes and greetings to the Chinese people have been flowing in around the advent of the Spring Festival on Saturday, along with calls for closer cooperation with the Asian country.
On the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, 23-year-old Deng Jie from Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, paid a New Year's visit to her grandma's home in a vermilion dress embroidered with auspicious clouds and a bright yellow woolen robe.
The Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau announced on Saturday, the first day of the Chinese New Year, that it has cancelled marriage registration service on Feb. 2 due to the spreading novel coronavirus.
Chinese around the world ring in the new zodiac year on Friday. The Year of Rat will start on Saturday, unleashing a new 12-year zodiac circle, with the animal sign attributed to the traits of being quick-minded, resourceful and versatile.
There is no question the interaction of art over the centuries has been a unifying and dignifying factor in the world's history, said 83-year-old Philippe de Montebello, a renowned museum director, at Thursday's preview of the Winter Show 2020 in New York City.
With the distribution of 2019-nCoV virus across the country, Chinese authorities have taken strong measures, putting in place a nationwide prevention and control mechanism to curb the novel coronavirus.
Investigators said Tuesday that the helicopter carrying basketball superstar Kobe Bryant did not have a terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) installed, which could've provided information to the pilot on what terrain he was flying in.
Basketball legend Kobe Bryant's untimely death has drawn an outpouring of shock and grief across China, prompting a wave of tributes to the former NBA superstar from the country's sports community and beyond.
Tennis legend Roger Federer scraped through to the semifinals of the Australian Open on Tuesday, surviving seven match points against unseeded United States' hopeful Tennys Sandgren 6-3, 2-6, 2-6, 7-6 (8), 6-3.
An emergency ordinance has been issued for the crash site where former NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others were killed, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told a press conference on Monday.
Chinese social media was packed with posts of shock and grief as players and fans mourned the death of former NBA player Kobe Bryant.
The world's oldest captive giant panda Xinxing and her four "great-grandchildren" celebrated the upcoming Spring Festival at a zoo in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Tuesday.
Four panda cubs named Shuangshuang, Chongchong and Xixi, Qingqing, together with the 37-year-old giant panda Xinxing, posed for a Chinese New Year greeting at the Chongqing Zoo.
Fans and tourists from Malaysia and abroad on Tuesday celebrated the second birthday of Yi Yi, the second giant panda that was born in Malaysia.
Canadian-born panda twins, Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue, flew to Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, early Sunday morning.
Scientists from several universities and institutes in Southwest China's Sichuan Province are using new audio- and artificial intellectual (AI)-backed methods to predict when a giant panda is most fertile during their breeding season to improve the chances of mating success.
Gong Gong, a giant panda from the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden, won the "Most Popular Giant Panda in China" title at 2019 Giant Panda Global Awards in Pairi Daiza, Belgium on Friday.