The Chinese Foreign Ministry says China is very concerned about the unprecedented scale of the joint ROK-US drills, adding it is resolutely opposed to any provocations on the Korean peninsula. The Korean peninsula is linked with China by mountains an...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has joined lawmakers from Southeast Chinas Fujian province in a panel discussion. Li hailed the economic and social development in Fujian over the past year. He says the region boosted green development and maritime economy...
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In the modernisation process, agriculture is lagging compared with other sectors, such as urbanization, industrialization and information technology. We need to restructure and upgrade the business models and production systems which focus on technol...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has announced the country will once again seek to lift many more people out of poverty in 2016. Political advisors have been offering their insights and proposals on how this can be done, based on their own experiences and...
Now for more analysis, let's bring in Tang Min, Counsellor at the State Council, and our senior reporter Xu Zhaoqun. Welcome, both of you, to our discussion. Q1: Let me start with you Xu Zhaoqun. You've been to a lot of villages in poor regions, and...
China has certainly been sparing no effort to eradicate poverty. According to a report issued by National Statistics Bureau, in 2015, the number of people in poverty in rural areas was reduced to about 55 million, a drop of more than 14 million on th...
Now for more on the changing demographics of urban and rural China, we are joined in the studio by my colleague Wu Haojun. We know in the past decades, China has experienced an urbanization drive that has seen the migration of millions and millions o...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Families of those onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were urged on Friday to file their claims before the deadlines as they prepare to mark the second anniversary of the accident. Malaysian Transport Minister Lio...
The One Belt One Road initiative is part of the drive for Chinese enterprises to go global. But the weak international economy has made the move difficult. CPPCC members are suggesting the central authorities help companies band together as they vent...
The U.S. media is paying close attention to this years Two Sessions in China. Following Premier Li Keqiangs announcement that Chinas economic growth target for 2016 is between six-and-a-half and seven percent, there was immediate reaction in U.S. pap...
China is now the number-one trading partner for most African countries. It also has huge investment of more than 20 billion US dollars to the continent. So how will China's economic slowdown influence the African continent? We now turn to our Nairobi...
According to Premier Li Keqiang Sunday's report card on the government work, last year China's non-financial outward direct investment reached 118 billion yuan, up nearly 15 percent from a year earlier. And the United Kingdom has become China's bigge...
For more on the implications of a slower Chinese economy, I'm joined in the studio by Andrew Moody, a senior correspondent of overseas editions at China Daily, and our own business reporter Martina Fuchs. Q1. For years China was the single largest co...
Talking about the working plan for this year, Premier Li said the government will speed up implementation of the free trade zone strategy. He highlighted China's trade cooperation with South Korea. After over 3 years of negotiation, the two countries...
