Editor's Note: The concept of "Hehe" in Chinese culture, with the first "He" embodying harmony, peace and balance and the second representing convergence, unity and cooperation, is central to both the individual and collective mind-set in China. Rooted in thousands of years of philosophy, the idea of "Hehe"...More

The UK government's reported attempt to break dependence on China for key minerals needed for wind turbines and electric vehicles is impracticable and may have an impact on its green transformation, Chinese experts said. British battery metal refiners and electric car factories are being handed cheap power deals...More

Editor's Note: China's widely watched annual "two sessions" kicked off on Monday this year. The "two sessions" refers to the annual sessions of National People's Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which are known as the country's top legislature and...More

China on Tuesday announced a defense budget draft for 2024 worth 1.66554 trillion yuan ($231.36 billion), an increase of 7.2 percent from the previous year. The moderate figure reflects China's reasonable, restrained and steady steps in national defense development, which takes factors including military modernization, external security environments...More

Jose Raimundo Coelho, ex-president of the Brazilian Space Agency and one of 50 foreign experts to receive the 2023 Chinese Government Friendship Award, on Monday hailed the relationship between China and Brazil, which has been significantly improved due to the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program (CBERS) following over...More

The Chinese military, including its J-20 stealth fighter jets, will enhance combat alert duties during the upcoming Spring Festival holidays, a regular but important arrangement that will fend off any potential foreign provocations, experts said on Monday. During the Spring Festival holidays, the broad masses of Chinese troops...More

China has rolled out an ethical guideline for brain-computer interfaces (BCI) aiming to better guide the compliant development of BCI research and prevent ethical risks in the process of research and technological applications. The released guideline by the Ministry of Science and Technology comes after Tesla CEO Elon...More

The movie award season has shone the spotlight back on the movie Oppenheimer, a Christopher Nolan-directed epic about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, as the commercial hit won five Golden Globe awards this year, and earned 13 Academy Award nominations in January. The movie, based on the biography...More

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region took the lead in China's exports to the five Central Asian countries in 2023, with a year-on-year growth of 23.2 percent, the Xinjiang Daily newspaper reported on Monday, adding to a slew of indicators that pointed to the region's robust economic growth...More

A special campaign to promote China's booming ice and snow tourism resources has recently been launched in Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and its Heilongjiang and Liaoning provinces are known for their unique winter tourism landscapes, and...More

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

China's economic growth rate is expected to reach around 5 percent in 2024, reversing a continuous trend of decline in GDP growth seen since 2009, Li Daokui, director of Tsinghua University's Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking, told the Global Times on Saturday. "Two highlights for...More

The combination of Tianzhou-7 cargo spacecraft and Long March-7 Y8 carrier rocket was rolled out to the launchpad in Wenchang Space Launch Site in South China's Hainan Province on Monday. All facilities in the Wenchang spaceport are in good conditions and testing work is underway for the first...More

It has been apparently more than one month since the Philippines last sent ships to trespass into waters off China's Ren'ai Jiao (also known as Ren'ai Reef), marking the longest pause in Manila's provocations since August. This is a situation that marked a temporary de-escalation in tensions in...More

China's three-day New Year's Day holidays, which ended on Monday, saw a consumer market boom with bustling travel and spending activities across the country, according to various data on Monday, offering more vivid displays of sustained vitality and vast potential in China's consumption market, the biggest driver for...More