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New Dynamics in New Year: Bustling market days for Spring Festival mirror China’s economic vitality

GT staff reporters February 04, 2024

New Dynamics in New Year: Bustling market days for Spring Festival mirror China’s economic vitality

As 2024 Spring Festival approaches, a number of cities across the country have held exhibitions and fairs for the upcoming shopping spree, attracting numerous consumers and merchants from home and abroad to jointly celebrate one of the most important holidays in the country. "This is my first time...More

Misinformation about China’s economy aims to scare away investors, prolong US’ financial hegemony: analysts

GT staff reporters February 04, 2024

Misinformation about China’s economy aims to scare away investors, prolong US’ financial hegemony: analysts

As the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported last week the Chinese economy expanded by 5.2 percent in 2023 from the previous year, several Western media outlets immediately cast doubt over the reading, casting it in a negative light and seized the opportunity to wage a smear campaign...More

World ushers in 2024 with both celebrating fireworks and flame of wars

GT staff reporters January 04, 2024

World ushers in 2024 with both celebrating fireworks and flame of wars

The world ushered in the year 2024 amid both celebrating fireworks and flame of wars, much like the hope and crisis that this era holds. Although people learned to coexist with COVID-19 in 2023, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reminded the world of the complex and...More

Xi stresses fostering new dynamics in ties with world

Yang Sheng and Zhang Yuying January 03, 2024

Xi stresses fostering new dynamics in ties with world

China concluded the latest Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs on Thursday, with the participation of top leaders and senior officials covering the Party and central and local governments, as well as all departments and agencies related to foreign affairs. This conference, held at the end...More

2023 Yearender: Australia’s future lies in the region and relations with China: former Australian official

Global Times December 27, 2023

2023 Yearender: Australia’s future lies in the region and relations with China: former Australian official

Editor's Note: In 2023, the world continues to witness significant changes and turbulence. As we approach 2024, we conducted in-depth interviews with leading strategists from various countries and regions to gather their perspectives on the prominent global issues of 2023 and China's role in addressing them. In the...More

Xi-Biden meeting to inject stability into troubled world economy

Wang Cong November 15, 2023

Xi-Biden meeting to inject stability into troubled world economy

When Chinese President Xi Jinping and the US President Joe Biden meet for the first time in a year in San Francisco later this week, there will be a complex, urgent set of bilateral and global issues for them to address, ranging from fraught bilateral ties to mounting...More

China, EU hold ‘productive’ trade dialogue; bloc urged to take concrete steps to stop protectionism

Yin Yeping and Wang Cong October 02, 2023

China, EU hold ‘productive’ trade dialogue; bloc urged to take concrete steps to stop protectionism

Chinese and EU officials on Monday held a high-level economic and trade dialogue in person in Beijing for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that they had held "in-depth, candid and productive" talks and reached a series of new win-win results and consensus in various areas,...More

Ice-breaking tour by mainland students to Taiwan ‘vivid example for promoting exchanges’

Zhang Changyue and Leng Shumei July 26, 2023

Ice-breaking tour by mainland students to Taiwan ‘vivid example for promoting exchanges’

A close and sincere friendship has been established between young people across the Taiwan Straits and heart-to-heart exchanges have shortened psychological distances and broken stereotypes amid a very warm and cordial atmosphere, a mainland college delegation said after concluding a rare nine-day visit to Taiwan island on Sunday...More

Exclusive: FISU acting president looks forward to successful hosting of upcoming Chengdu Games

Lin Xiaoyi July 19, 2023

Exclusive: FISU acting president looks forward to successful hosting of upcoming Chengdu Games

International University Sports Federation (FISU) Acting President Leonz Eder believes the upcoming Chengdu World University Games will feature well-organized competitions as well as cultural experiences as he looks forward to the great Games. "Based on the intensive preparation work and the regular exchanges between the organizing committee and...More

US will only turn itself into a global ‘drug den’ by scapegoating China

Global Times July 06, 2023

US will only turn itself into a global ‘drug den’ by scapegoating China

The "American disease" of drug abuse is not without solutions, but laying the blame on China is definitely the most ineffective. Nonetheless, US politicians deliberately ignore this. "Buck-passing" drama needs a script, a stage and actors. When all is ready, the drama is on. According to Politico, in...More

Designs of ‘windmills’ amid blowing winds of history actively debated at World Peace Forum

Andrey Kortunov July 05, 2023

Designs of ‘windmills’ amid blowing winds of history actively debated at World Peace Forum

I've finally got back to Beijing after a four-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Four-year is not a lot of time in the long history of the city, but some recent changes are hard to miss. For the first time I entered China through a new gateway...More

Summer Davos welcomes guests offline after 4 years, to showcase China’s potential and inject positivity into world economy

Zhang Han, Chu Daye and Liu Yang in Tianjin June 27, 2023

Summer Davos welcomes guests offline after 4 years, to showcase China’s potential and inject positivity into world economy

About 1,500 participants from business, government, civil society, international organizations and academia are to gather in North China's Tianjin for the World Economic Forum's (WEF) 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), also known as Summer Davos, after a three-year hiatus of the in-person event due to...More

Chinese experts hail end to COVID global health emergency, urge long-term monitoring

Global Times May 13, 2023

Chinese experts hail end to COVID global health emergency, urge long-term monitoring

After the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday declared an end to COVID-19 as a global public health emergency, many Chinese medical experts expressed optimism for further social and economic recovery, while stressing a necessity for long-term monitoring of the virus in the new stage of epidemic prevention....More

China urges WHO not to descend to political tool of COVID-19 origins-tracing

GT staff reporters April 14, 2023

China urges WHO not to descend to political tool of COVID-19 origins-tracing

China has urged World Health Organization (WHO) officials to return to science and fairness and not to be subject to or willing to descend to become a tool of politicization of certain countries, after some in the international organization smeared China for lacking transparency in sharing data about...More

Two sessions show new expectations and new beginnings are in the acceleration phase: Italian scholar

Global Times March 15, 2023

Two sessions show new expectations and new beginnings are in the acceleration phase: Italian scholar

Editor's Note: The two sessions, one of China's most important annual political events, are an important window for the outside world to understand China's development achievements, plans, governance philosophy, diplomatic concepts and global initiatives. Through this window, international observers closely watch China's moves and recognize China's development. The...More