VIENNA, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Golden Hall of Vienna played host to Liao Changyong Vocal Solo Concert, the first by a Chinese baritone, on Friday evening, giving a chance for Westerners to sip the...

In many ways, China is currently less affected by the financial crisis than other countries, due to its more closed financial system. This has led other nations to urge China to lend a greater fin...

BEIJING, China - A subway tunnel collapse in eastern China over the weekend killed at least seven people and 14 others remain missing, state-run media reported late Monday. The 75-meter section o...

BONN -- The UN climate chief said Monday that during the upcoming Climate Change Conference he expects "an active Chinese engagement" in discussions concerning technology transfer. "Many pe...

  Archeologists on Saturday removed an about 1,000-year-old miniature pagoda, believed to hold the top part of Buddha's skull, from an iron case found at a former temple site in Nanjing ...

Layoffs and a shrinking job market have forced fresh graduates to lower their expectations of finding good jobs, some visitors to a national job fair said Tuesday. The job fair, organized b...

  BEIJING -- For Jin Zhenghao, this November has been the most stressful month in his 25 years of life. A financial engineering major at Xiamen University in southeast China's Fujian Pr...

President Hu said that China hopes to push its ties with Greece to a higher level. The Chinese government has attached great importance to its relations with Greece. China has been viewing th...

    The Ministry of Education (MOE) said on Monday it would recruit 30,000 college students as rural teachers next year, a move intended to ease employment pressure in China amid the...

   Paulson said the engagement with China through SED has helped yield many results. ·"Engagement has helped us manage the current financial market crisis," Paulson asaid. &m...

  (Xinhua) Updated: 2008-12-04 19:34   BEIJING -- China's long-awaited fuel tax reform may start as early as January, along with the country's government-controlled oil pricing refo...

    Courts will give economic cases priority to ensure the interests of workers, banks and companies are properly protected. "Time is of the essence in cases involving the illegal w...

    Three visiting astronauts launched an exhibition on "China's First Spacewalk Mission" in Hong Kong on Saturday, giving local residents a glimpse of the country's space journey....

BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The international community should deal with human rights issues through dialogues and cooperation, a senior Chinese official said here on Tuesday. "In promoting h...

      (Xinhua) Updated: 2008-12-09 17:04   BEIJING -- China Construction Bank (CCB) has been approved by the US Federal Reserve to establish a branch in New York, the le...

    BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese language has become more popular worldwide with the rapid increase in the number of Confucius Institutes, Education Minister Zhou Ji said...

BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- There will be 30,000 clean-energy vehicles in China by 2012, an official with the Ministry of Science and Technology said on Friday. The ministry was promoting ...

A new era in cross-Straits relations begins today with the launch of daily direct air, shipping and postal services.The end of a nearly six-decade ban on direct links imposed by Taipei is widely e...

SHENYANG -- Chinese President Hu Jintao called for maintaining a stable and healthy economic growth amid the challenges in industrial restructuring, export, employment and people's lives duri...

  A ship owned by China Communications Construction Co. was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden at 12:43 pm (Beijing time) on Wednesday. Thirty Chinese sailors were aboard the ship, ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao eulogized Thursday the nationwide reform adopted by the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the past three decades when China saw nearly ten percent average annual ...

Antarctica, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese 25th Antarctic expedition team left Zhongshan Station Thursday for the highest icecap on the South Pole to set up the country's first inland Antarc...

Shanghai - Three banks will lend 130 billion yuan ($19 billion) to Taiwan businesses on the mainland to help them cope with the global financial turmoil in three years, a top official with the Tai...

  YA'AN, Sichuan -- A pair of giant pandas offered by the Chinese mainland are going to leave the Chinese mainland Tuesday for Taiwan. The 4-year-old pandas, Tuan Tuan and Yua...

BEIJING (AFP) – China's Beiqi Foton Motor Co has launched a five-billion-yuan (730-million-dollar) design and production base for clean energy vehicles in Beijing, the company said Tuesday. ...

    BEIJING – A miniaturized satellite circling Shenzhou-VII's orbital module had accomplished its pre-set mission after 100 days in space, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center...

By Xin Zhiming (chinadaily.com.cn) The Chinese economy may face "more severe and complicated" situations as the possibility of a global economic recession is increasing, the People's Bank of ...

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China's telecommunications supervisor on Wednesday issued long-awaited third-generation (3G) mobile phone licenses to three mobile operators, a move that is expected to lead to billions of doll...

TAICHUNG, Taiwan -- Four local government heads from central Taiwan will leave for Hong Kong and Macau Wednesday to promote central Taiwan tourism and sales of the area's native products. T...

  Nuclear safety officials from China and the US have pledged to strengthen communication and cooperation in nuclear safety areas. At a forum kicked off in Beijing on January 8, 2008, th...

TAIPEI -- In hopes of boosting local economy and tourism, Taiwan's legislative body on Monday voted through a controversial bill lifting a decades-old ban on casinos, despite protests that...

Editor: Wang Hongjiang BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Sea levels will rise at varying rates around the world because of a quirk of the earth's gravity linked to global warming, according to&...

 Editor: Sun Yunlong BEIJING, Jan. 16 -- The label "Made in China" is world renowned but a new generation are seeking to make "designed and created in China" equally familiar. The field ...

Don Lee from the Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. may not participate in the 2010 Shanghai World’s Fair: Although a no-show by the U.S. wouldn’t go down well in Beijing,...

BEIJING —  China faces a "grim" situation in preventing and controlling human cases of bird flu, the health minister said, after announcing four human infections in the last...

Editor:Hu Zhicheng China-US Cultural Forum, a seminar centering on cultural heritage protection has just wound up in Beijing on December 9. More than fifty experts, scholars and professors ...

TAIPEI, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The pair of pandas sent by the Chinese mainland to Taiwan made their official debut at the Taipei Zoo Monday morning, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. ...

Beijing, Jan 28 (Xinhua) China has set up its third Antarctic research station, also the country's first on the continent's inland. The Kunlun station was erected at Dome Argus (Dome A), the p...

Beijing, Jan 28 (Xinhua) China has set up its third Antarctic research station, also the country's first on the continent's inland. The Kunlun station was erected at Dome Argus (Dome A), the po...

  The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has launched an initiative to boost the development of solar energy technology, in a bid to turn it into a major energy source in China by 2050. ...

  BEIJING -- Citic Group said here on Friday it will in three to five years build the National Stadium into an entertainment and shopping center, while seeking to hold more sports games ...

  www.chinaview.cn BEIJING, Feb. 2 -- "Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven's movie "Black Book," a World War II spy thriller, is to premiere in China on February 3rd. This is the f...

WASHINGTON -- Former US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday that he was wrongly portrayed in a Financial Times article as claiming China is to blame for the global economic crisis...

  By Tu Lei (chinadaily.com.cn) Shanghai Airlines, more than 35 percent owned by the Shanghai city government, is expected to get 1 billion yuan ($146 million) to 2 billion yuan in...

Editor: Zhang Xiang SHANGHAI, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in Shanghai and two pharmaceutical companies in Jiangsu province have successfully developed ways to produce the anti-bird flu drug ...

BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The National Library of China (NLC) has cut fees to boost reading demand. Various fees including applying for reader's card, annual verification cost, using study r...

By Mike Baker What defines a global "superpower"? In the past, it was the size of national armies or possession of nuclear weapons. But now there is a more important (and peaceful) benchmark...

A man in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, has 40 reptiles including lizards, scorpions and black spiders, which he keeps as pets inside his home.Wu Xiaokang, 23, said he likes to live with th...

During the next few weeks, a fine comet bright enough for observation in binoculars and possibly even with the naked eye will be making astronomical news.Posted February 6, 2009By Joe Rao, LiveSci...

Local authorities and the Walt Disney Company have reached an agreement on major issues behind the building of the first Disneyland theme park on the Chinese mainland, Shanghai mayor Han Zheng sai...

China is finding new ways to get jobs for the nation's millions of college graduates, as vacancies are getting slashed under the current financial crisis. New measures include encouraging colle...

  BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Managers of Beijing's old Summer Palace said Tuesday they oppose the auctioning of its lost relics or buying back those looted by others, as its two imperi...

    China's foreign exchange regulator said Wednesday it was important to prevent big fluctuations of the Renminbi (RMB) rate against other currencies. "It's normal that the excha...

    BEIJING -- Movie director Zhang Yimou will follow up his successful opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics by orchestrating a celebration including a military parade to mark...

www.chinaview.cn     By Xinhua writer Miao Xiaojuan    BEIJING, Feb. 20 --  Most urban employees in China worry about their pension plans, and the government's i...

Chinese scientists in southwest China's Yunnan Province said Monday they had a photo of a wild Indo-Chinese tiger, the world's most critically endangered tiger subspecies.The picture was taken in ...

(Xinhua) Paris -- A Paris court on Monday ruled against stopping the sale of two looted Chinese bronze sculptures which come up for auction at Christie's on Wednesday. Under the ruling...

BEIJING - China's Ministry of Railways (MOR) signed a deal with state-owned vehicle producer CNR Corporation Limited (CNR) here Monday to purchase 100 high-speed CRH trains for 39.2 billion yuan (...

(Xinhua)BEIJING -- A gala was held Saturday in Beijing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the emancipation of Tibetan serfs. Top political advisor Jia Qinglin and other senior officials watched ...

BEICHUAN -- Tears fell down her cheeks, like the rain dropping on her umbrella."I dreamed of my granddaughter several times," Tan Yunlan said while sobbing.Supported by her daughter, the elderly w...

BEIJING -- China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued an emergency notice Saturday night requiring people to report flu-like symptoms at the point of e...

WASHINGTON -- Top Chinese and US trade officials pledged Monday to strengthen bilateral trade cooperation amidst the ongoing global financial crisis."We welcome American companies that want to inc...

China and Mexico Monday agreed to send chartered flights to each other's countries to fetch their citizens, dampening a row that stemmed from Beijing's quarantine of Mexican nationals in the count...

CHANGCHUN -- Construction of China's biggest manufacturing base for high-speed trains is to be completed in the northeastern Jilin Province in June next year, local sources confirmed Wednesday.It ...

BEIJING -- China's automobile sales probably reached a record high of 1.15 million units last month as the government's stimulus plans began to pay off, estimates from the China Association of Aut...

HONG KONG, May 22 (Xinhua) - Hong Kong reported the fourth confirmed case of influenza A/H1N1, which involved a female student who recently came back from the United States, local health authoriti...

China's fuel price will remain at current level and will not be increased during the weekend, said an official from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Thursday. The official...

SHANGHAI - China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, is expected to be launched in the second half of this year, an official of the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) said Thursday. The...

Government data showed the country's exports in May fell a record 26.4 percent compared to last year. Imports to China dropped 25.2 percent last month, compared to 23 percent in April.The drop in...

China has announced it would indefinitely postpone a mandate requiring all personal computers sold in the country to be accompanied by a controversial content-filtering application, state media re...

The European Union (EU) is eager to strengthen dialogue with China in order to thrash out an agreement on climate change ahead of the massive international meeting on the issue set for Copenhagen ...

In order to enhance the appeal of the food producers illegally use a toxic chemical. This was discovered during an investigation. Dried black beans were often eaten by people in northern China ...

The nation will emerge from the depths of the global downturn first and in better shape than any other country, according to Klaus Schwab, who made the observation while stressing the need for mor...

BEIJING: From drinking water to mine tailings, China is reinforcing environmental checks around the capital to prevent potential pollution in the run up to the National Day celebrations on October...

Positioned as the people's festival, taking the "Entering the happiness and pleasure" as subject, Shanghai Tourism Festival has progressed for 16 years successfully since 1990 when it first held. ...