China’s leaders celebrate New Year with political advisors
China’s leaders on Tuesday morning celebrated the New Year of 2013 with political advisors in Beijing. President Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi…
Chinese president appoints five new ambassadors
Chinese President Hu Jintao has appointed five new ambassadors to foreign countries, according to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Tuesday. Xiao Qian has been appointed…
Obama sends message to Hu on efforts in U.S.-China ties
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, acknowledging Hu’s contribution to relations between the two countries. In his message, sent Thursday, Obama said…
Full text of Hu Jintao’s report at 18th Party Congress
I. Our Work in the Past Five Years and the Basic Experience We Have Gained in the Past Ten Years II. Achieving New Victory for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics III.…
Pamphlet of Hu’s report at 18th Party Congress published
The pamphlet form of Hu Jintao’s report at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, delivered on Nov. 8, 2012, has been published. The report, Firmly March…
Hu, Xi call for efforts to promote peaceful development of cross-Strait ties
Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping on Thursday called for enhanced cooperation between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Kuomintang (KMT) in a bid to continue to promote the…
Hu calls for doubling of income
The 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress opened in Beijing on Thursday. A new generation of leaders will be unveiled at the close next Wednesday – the first such change in…
CPC proposes to build “beautiful” China
Hu Jintao on Thursday emphasized the importance of ecological progress and proposed to build a “beautiful” China in the country’s overall development plan. In his report to the 18th CPC…
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Premier Li Keqiang’s confident press debut
Premier Li Keqiang’s confident press debut
Li Keqiang’s debut as China’s Premier in front of the world’s press has grabbed extensive attention, both at home and abroad. The 57-year-old person minced no words as he answered journalist’s questions, laying to rest doubts and concerns as to how he was gong to run the second largest economy in the world over the [...]
Xi orders courage to help deepen reforms
Xi orders courage to help deepen reforms
Communist Party of China (CPC) chief Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for courage like “wading through a dangerous shoal” to help deepen reforms in the country’s development. While joining national legislators from China’s economic hub of Shanghai to deliberate the government work report, Xi compared the difficulty facing the country’s deepened reform and opening up [...]
Northeast China’s first nuclear power plant starts operation
Northeast China’s first nuclear power plant starts operation
The Hongyanhe nuclear power station, the first nuclear power plant and largest energy project in northeast China, started operation on Sunday afternoon. The plant’s first unit went into operation at 3:09 p.m., said Yang Xiaofeng, general manager of Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. Construction on the first phase of the project, which features four [...]
DPRK says it conducts 3rd nuclear test
DPRK says it conducts 3rd nuclear test
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Tuesday it has successfully conducted the third underground nuclear test, according to the official KCNA news agency. The test was part of the country’s “practical measures of counteraction” to defend its security and sovereignty against hostile U.S.policies, which it claimed have violated DPRK’s “rights to launch [...]
Reservoir leak results in casualties in Xinjiang
Reservoir leak results in casualties in Xinjiang
A reservoir leak in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has left one dead and more than a dozen injured, rescuers said Saturday. The Lianfeng Reservoir in Kaziwan Village, located about 25 km from Urumqi, the regional capital, began to lose water around 6:10 a.m., sources with the reservoir administration said. Water gushed out and [...]
China’s 1st single-layer graphene of 15 inches thick made in Chongqing
China’s 1st single-layer graphene of 15 inches thick made in Chongqing
A researcher uses a microscope to analyse a touch-screen product made from the 15-inch single-layer graphene in the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in southwest China’s Chongqing, Jan. 24, 2013. Chongqing Institute recently announced that it successfully made the first single-layer graphene of 15 inches thick which has marked [...]
Police urged to improve service for Spring Festival travellers
Police urged to improve service for Spring Festival travellers
Police officers at all levels were urged to improve their work style and offer better services for travellers during the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush. Huang Ming, vice minister of public security, made the remarks during a televised conference on traffic management for the Spring Festival travel rush, which starts on Jan. 26. The Spring [...]