Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann pays a state visit to China from today until Saturday. It's his first visit to the country as state head of the Swiss Confederation. Ahead of the visit, Schneider-Ammann sat down with CCTV. President Schneider-...
The Chinese education ministry has released the first report on the quality of Chinas higher education. The report says there are currently 37 million students in higher education, among them more than 26 million are undergraduate students. This numb...
China will play a bigger role in maintaining peace in the Middle East, especially in Yemen. This's according to Gong Xiaosheng, China's Special Envoy on Middle East Issues. There are a series of new changes in the issues related to Yemen. All parties...
The WHO estimates that by 2030, diabetes will become the seventh leading cause of death. In China, diabetes patients have increased dramatically. Figures from the latest guidebook for Type Two diabetes prevention show that about 100 million adults ar...
A naming ceremony has been held for the first panda born in Malaysia; the giant panda cub will be called Nuan Nuan. The baby giant panda born in Malaysia is named Nuan Nuan. [Photo by Bai Yuzhu of the Chinese embassy in Malaysia] The cub is the offsp...
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE, has strongly condemned the violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, urging the two sides to respect the ceasefire agreement. The OSCE Minsk Group countries include Russia, the United...
For more insights, we are now joined in the studio by Mr. Cui Hongjian. He is a research fellow with the China Institute of International Studies. Thank you for joining us. Q1. The conflict between the two sides has been frozen for about 20 years. Wh...
The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has commended the peace process in Syria at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. The envoy praised Russia for its efforts in helping Syrian forces to recapture the histor...
A US court has delayed the hearing of an ex-wife of a wanted former Chinese official. The Central District Court of California announced on Tuesday that the hearing of Zhao Shilan, who has been charged with immigration fraud and money laundering, wil...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has expressed high expectations for the UN-brokered Syria peace talks. He called on all parties involved to do enough homework for the second round of negotiations, expected to kick off on April 11th in Geneva....
The Chinese ambassador to the DPRK visited the cemetery of the Chinese Peoples Volunteer Army Monday, Qingming Festival, to mourn the death of loved ones. The Chinese ambassador, embassy staff, and representatives of Chinese companies in the DPRK, se...
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Myanmar for a two-day visit. He has met his counterpart, Myanmar's new foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi in Nay Pyi Taw. During the meeting, Wang reiterated China's confidence in the prospects for bilateral exch...
President Xi Jinping says he expects the British royal family to continue to play an active role in promoting mutual understanding and friendship between the Chinese and British people. Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with visiting British Pri...
For more on the topic, we're joined in the studio by an expert of South Asian issues, deputy professor Song Qingrun from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations. Q1. This is the first time for a Chinese foreign minister to visit M...
