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  • Plain facts about Xinjiang cotton industry speak louder than lies

    Tractors are busy plowing cotton fields in Bachu County, one of the cotton hubs in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as the season for cotton sowing arrives. Across Xinjiang, spring plowing season usually starts in late March and early April as the weather becomes favorable. Farmer Yimam Tursun, from Bachu, has over a dozen Read more

  • China remains open to scientific discussion on COVID-19 origin: Foreign Ministry

    Everything about the COVID-19 origin tracing remains open to fact-based scientific discussions, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, answering questions about the WHO-China joint mission at a press briefing on Wednesday. “The expert team and the Chinese side had frank and deep conversations about the possibilities of a lab leak causing the pandemic,” the ministry Read more

  • China shared data with WHO experts, report based on facts: Chinese expert

    China did share data with WHO experts in the joint study on the source of COVID-19, and the report released on Tuesday is based on facts, said Liang Wannian, the Chinese leader of the China-WHO joint expert team, at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday. Liang stressed that the workload of the joint study, Read more

  • China’s March manufacturing PMI beats expectation on rising demand

    China’s factory activity expanded at a faster pace in March as factories ramped up production after the Spring Festival holiday, while upbeat export orders provided a further boost. The purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for China’s manufacturing sector came in at 51.9 in March, up from 50.6 in February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday. The data beat an estimate of Read more

  • WHO expert: Future research on COVID-19 origin not limit to one region

    All conclusions and recommendations in the report by the international team studying the origins of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan are based on a global perspective, and future research will not be limited to a certain region, Liang Wannian, leader of the Chinese side of the China-World Health Organization (WHO) joint team, said at Tuesday’s briefing on the 120-page Read more

  • China-donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Ethiopia

    A batch of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines, donated by the Chinese government to Ethiopia, arrived here on Tuesday. The doses were received at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport by Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia, Zhao Zhiyuan, Ethiopia Minister of Health, Lia Tadesse and Birtukan Ayano, State Minister of Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “China is Read more

  • China’s top legislature adopts amended annexes to HKSAR Basic Law

    China’s top legislature on Tuesday voted unanimously to adopt the amended Annex I and Annex II to the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The two annexes concern the method for the selection of the HKSAR Chief Executive and the method for the formation of the HKSAR Legislative Council and its Read more

  • Suez Canal resumes traffic: official

    The traffic in Suez Canal resumed after massive container ship Ever Given has been successfully refloated as being stranded in the canal for almost a week, Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said on Monday. Xinhua correspondent on-site witnessed that the cargo ship was centered in the canal and is navigating to the north. Other ships Read more

  • China urges foreign companies not to become pawns of certain political forces

    China urges relevant foreign companies to operate in the country in accordance with laws and regulations, and not become pawns of certain political forces or challenge China’s public opinion, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters Monday. Zhao made the comments in answer to a question about claims by the United States that the Chinese Read more

  • Energy Official: China leads world in renewable energy development

    China leads the world in the development and utilization scale of renewable energy sources, providing strong support for green and low-carbon energy transformation, Zhang Jianhua, director of China’s National Energy Administration, said at a press conference on Tuesday. By the end of 2020, the total installed capacity of renewable energy power generation – by hydropower, Read more

  • China’s Vaccine Map: Over 260m Chinese COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed globally

    A total of 100 million doses of two COVID-19 vaccines developed by subsidiaries of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) had been distributed around the world, one of the subsidiaries said on last Friday, with over 80 million doses of the two vaccines being administered. Another Chinese vaccine maker, Sinovac Biotech, said last Monday it had supplied 160 Read more

  • China envoy refutes UN concerns with Xinjiang industrial automation

    China’s Mission to the UN Office at Geneva refuted a statement on Monday from UN human rights experts after they voiced concerns of alleged human rights violations in China’s remote Xinjiang region against ethnic Uygurs. In the statement released earlier on Monday, the UN experts said Uygur workers have been allegedly forcibly employed in low-skilled Read more

  • Mainland firmly opposes DPP for smearing Xinjiang

    A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Monday slammed Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority for smearing the mainland on Xinjiang-related issues.  The response came after H&M banned Xinjiang cotton which triggered widespread resistance from consumers. The DPP authority slandered the mainland, saying the freedom of religious belief was depressed in the region and that it will Read more

  • Container ship stuck in Suez Canal refloated

    The massive container ship Ever Given has been successfully refloated after being stranded in the Suez Canal for almost a week, Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said on Monday. “The vessel is en route to the port of Rotterdam,” and expected to arrive there on March 31, the ship tracking website VesselFinder showed with a Read more

  • 1 million doses of China’s Sinovac vaccine arrive in El Salvador

     total of one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech arrived in El Salvador on Sunday. Officials from both countries, including El Salvador’s Health Minister Francisco Alabi and China’s Ambassador to El Salvador Ou Jianhong, welcomed the shipment at the airport.  “This vaccine has been used internationally, in countries that Read more

  • Tibet marks 62th anniversary of democratic reform

    This year marks the 62nd anniversary of the democratic reform of Tibet. On March 28, 1959, then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai issued a State Council Order declaring the “dissolution” of the government of Tibet, which effectively abolished the hierarchic social system and liberated about one million Tibetans from serfdom. Since the democratic reform that started Read more

  • Over 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations administered in China: NHC

    China has administered 102.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of March 27, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday. The global supply of two COVID-19 vaccines developed by subsidiaries of China’s Sinopharm has exceeded 100 million, one subsidiary announced on Friday. Fifty countries and regions have approved Sinopharm’s vaccines for commercial or emergency Read more

  • Western views of human rights don’t represent int’l community: Chinese FM

    Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that the views of human rights held by some Western countries don’t represent those of the international community. He made these remarks in a meeting with his counterpart of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan in the UAE capital Abu Read more

  • Social, political actions called for to counter surging Asian hate in U.S.

    The root causes of hate against Asian Americans were the prejudice and the desire to treat other people like objects or take “people different from you as not your own flesh and blood,” says Ray Low, a Manhattan pastor. NEW YORK, March 28 — To highlight “StopAsianHate” and demand thorough regulation, multiple marches and demonstrations Read more

  • China’s new “dual circulation” development paradigm

    To sustain growth, China is pushing a “dual circulation” development paradigm, which has been mentioned as a guiding thought in a blueprint for its development in the next five to 15 years. “China will advance the building of a strong domestic market and a strong trading nation in a concerted way, based on the domestic Read more