Li Ruohan, Li Xuanmin and Yao Lijuan for Global Times April 23, 2019
Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday sent a congratulatory letter to the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) First Council Meeting, expecting the platform to further boost people-to-people exchanges and promote the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to provide more substantial results for the people. The meeting,...more
Beinjing. After making unprecedented and stunning achievements in poverty alleviation, China has entered a critical stage of its vow to lift all Chinese people out of poverty. From a historical perspective, China's great determination will promote the progress of human civilization. Hence, it has drawn positive attention around...more
Beijing. In a latest move to tighten its regulation on studies of human genes and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, China is mulling formulating a special section in its overarching law governing legal disputes following the scandal over gene-edited babies and the AI face-stitching technology controversy. The draft civil...more
My mother is an old-fashioned middle aged woman with little interest in new technology. Smartphones to her are virtually no different from the older devices. For her, the instrument is only a tool for making calls and sending messages. But astonishingly, the recent two months have seen her...more
Beijing. Southwest China's Sichuan Province will implement a points-based system to manage all members and probationary members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 117 organs under the provincial government, the Sichuan Online reported Monday. CPC members in Sichuan will be scored every month, and the points...more
Premier Li Keqiang visited Europe from April 8 to 12 for the China-EU leaders' meeting, the eighth summit between China and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs), and paid an official visit to the Balkan nation of Croatia. It marks the second trip by China's top leaders to...more
On April 5, US President Donald Trump said that China, Russia and the US are all making hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons, including nuclear, which is ridiculous and that he thinks it'd be much better if they all got together and didn't make these armaments....more
HAVANA. Education in Cuba is wonderful, it is a model for developing countries as well as richer ones, Sheryl Lutjens, professor at California State University in the United States, told ACN. Sheryl Lutjens, coordinator for a quarter of a century of meetings between teachers from Cuba and the...more
HAVANA. Cuba proclaimed this April 10 its new Constitution at an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of People's Power marked by a great symbolism by the remembrance of the first Magna Carta of the Republic in Arms, whose 150th anniversary is celebrated today. The proclamation speech was...more
HAVANA. Cuba is an absolutely vital ally for the United Nations, said María Fernanda Espinosa, president of the General Assembly of that multilateral organization, on her arrival in Havana on Wednesday. The UN needs countries like Cuba since it is one of the great defenders of the multilateral...more
We, 350 representatives of peasants, landless peasants and agricultural workers, small producers of food and different agricultural commodities & agro-forestry, youth and women peasants, fisher folks, livestock holders and pastoralists, agricultural co-operatives, organic producers, Dalits and Adivasis, agricultural experts, peasants' organizations and coalitions, community-based organizations, civil society organizations,...more
Beijing. China and New Zealand should strive to provide a fair, transparent and convenient environment for companies from both countries, and China is willing to support competitive companies to invest in New Zealand, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...more
In recent years, the US government has stepped up its attacks on Chinese technology giant Huawei, trying to force countries around the world to ban it from their 5G rollout projects. Such acrimony against a firm is unprecedented in the history of global high-technology, and there are no...more
Beijing. Many Chinese netizens said they are amazed by the rich content on the Xuexiqiangguo app, which literally means "Learning builds a strong country," noting the app is more informative and entertaining than merely serving as a channel to teach Party theory to members of the Communist Party of...more
Excellencies, Distinguished Business leaders, Ladies and Gentlemen, Namaste ! At the outset let me express my gratitude to all the delegates who have come to participate in the summit from all over the world. We are overwhelmed by your invaluable presence and encouraged by your interest on our...more