China's investment in Belt and Road Initiative countries soared 38.6 percent year on year as the country's outbound direct investment (ODI) reached a record high in 2015, official data showed Thursday.
Investment in Belt and Road countries stood at 18.93 billion U.S. dollars and represented 13 percent of the country's ODI last year, according to Zhang Xiangchen, deputy international tradeRead more
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko on Friday, pledging to improve bilateral relations.
Xi said China and Russia enjoy a high-level of mutual political trust and engage in mutually beneficial cooperation.
The comprehensive strategic partnership of collaboration between the two countries has helped shape a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation asRead more
World No.1 Serena Williams broke yet another record at the US Open, winning her 307th Grand Slam match with an emphatic win over Johanna Larsson to reach the second week.
World number one Williams dominated Sweden's Johanna Larsson 6-2, 6-1 to surpass Martina Navratilova for most Grand Slam wins by a woman with 307. Not only has she surpassed Navratilova,Read more
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, attended Saturday the funeral of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov in his home city of Samarkand.
"The Chinese leaders, government and people are deeply grieved at the death of President Karimov. On behalf of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Chinese government and people, I am extending deep condolencesRead more
A wild giant panda was spotted in a forest park in southwest China's Sichuan Province Wednesday afternoon, the fourth of such encounter this year.
"The panda was about seven or eight meters from me, and was quickly out of sight," said Zhang Zhongyan, a forestry worker who was driving on a forest highway at around 7:20 p.m. Wednesday.
Zhang saidRead more
China's two mixed doubles pairs lost their semifinals on Monday, failing to make the gold medal match of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Top seeds Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei were defeated by Indonesia's Tontowi Ahmad/Lilyana Natsir 16-21, 16-21, while Malaysia's Chan Peng Soon/Goh Liu Ying beat Xu Chen/Ma Jin of China 21-12, 21-19 in front of the roaring fans.
The mixedRead more
A rare earth industrial alliance has been established in Baotou City, the "capital of rare earth," in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, authorities announced Wednesday.
Baotou is the world's largest rare earth exploitation, smelting and processing base, and churns out nearly half of China's rare earth exploitation quota every year. Industrial output of the sector in Baotou exceeded 14Read more
One of China's most powerful officials tells Hong Kong he brings a "caring heart", in a conciliatory start to a visit Tuesday that has stirred anger in a city that resents Beijing's tightening grip.
The three-day trip by Zhang Dejiang, who chairs China's communist-controlled legislature, is the first by such a senior official in four years and comes as concernsRead more