According to the US President, Barack Obama, the relations between the United States and China will be critical for the success of a whole host of global issues.
 
"The relationship between the United States and China will shape the 21st century," Obama said in Washington, urging ...

The Tibetan Autonomous Region in southwest China saw a record high temperature of 30.4°Celsius since the meteorological department began recording data in 1951.
 
Lhasa, the main city of the region, with an altitude of 3,650 meters above the sea level, recorded a temperature of ...

"China has long been the world's fastest-growing major economy," Ban said in a speech in Beijing. "It is also a leading emitter of greenhouse gases, and it is one of the country’s most vulnerable to the impact of climate change."
 
His warning was issued at the ...

According to a Chinese diplomat, China is a victim of terrorism similar to Bangladesh and India. The diplomat also added that China wants to join the UN-led campaign against terror.
 
Chinese special ambassador, Zhou Gang, met the Bangladeshi leadership on Thursday to brief them of the ...

Plans for the promotion of ethnic cultures have been disclosed by Chinese officials on Thursday. According to them this is vital for paving the way for equitable development in the country.
 
This decision has been taken by the State Council for ensuring greater protection for different ...

A total solar eclipse was observed at many places in China Wednesday morning. At 9.15 a.m., many places in the upper reaches of China's longest river, the Yangtze, were engulfed in total darkness.
 
The moon's shadow blocked the sun, leaving only the solar corona visible in China's ...

Chinese archaeologists who have sketched the layout of Xanado have now unearthed the city. This was built by Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and has been mentioned by the Italian traveller Marco Polo.
"The most exciting findings are the layout of the moat in front of the Mingde Gate to the royal ...

The torrential rains which caused the flood in the Southern China have caused the death of about 20 people.  700, 000 have become homeless during the last week. 

More than 700,000 people have been relocated as the heavy rains have destroyed the houses. Floods have destroyed the crops, ...

A Taiwan company launched a cruise service with China Sunday, making it the first such cross-strait service in 60 years.
 

With a band playing and dragon dance performing on shore, the 2,292-tonne Ocean Lala set sail from the Taichung Harbour for Xiamen, China, carrying 179 passengers and ...

Access to Google has been disrupted in some parts of China in the midst of a row over what content should be allowed to view over the internet. There were reports of people not being able to access Google search engine or the Chinese version of it. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, ...

The US and European Union (EU) have filed complaints with World Trade Organisation (WTO) that China is unjustly restraining its raw material exports. The trade cases filed with WTO says that China was giving its domestic industry access to cheap materials. 
China said it would contest the ...

Iran and China signed a gas deal worth around $5 billion on Wednesday. The agreement will develop a part of the South Pars gas field in the Gulf, according to the news release by IRNA.
Seyfollah Jashnsaz, the MD of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), said the company has signed a deal with ...

China is expected to launch its first Mars probe called Yinghuo-1 by the second half of the current year. According to deputy secretary of the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), Zhang Weiqiang, the probe has successfully cleared the research test. Country's first ever Mars probe, ...

Pakistan and China on Saturday (7th March) signed an agreement for the serial production of 42 JF-17 Thunder jet fighter aircraft. JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft are expected to form the backbone of the Pakistani aerial combat fleet in the coming years. The agreement was signed at the Pakistan Air ...

After launching the sea links in December last year, China and Taiwan are likely to give green signal to regular passenger and cargo flight services between the two countries. Both the countries plan to sign a pact in late May to operate regular flight service. The new flight services slated to be ...

China has announced to set up a commercial helicopter production base at Tianjin with an investment of about $1.2 billion. In order to start the construction work, the largest helicopter maker of the country, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AICC) struck a deal with the municipal government. ...

China on Monday (December 29) opened the first road tunnel beneath the Yangtze river for traffic. Announcing the news, the provincial government informed that the authorities have also planned to build two more such tunnels under the Yangtze river. The construction work of the second tunnel is ...

Moving forward its space research programme, China launched a remote-sensing satellite named Yaogan V on December 15, 2008. The fifth Yaogan satellite was launched with the help of a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 11:22 am from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north Shanxi Province of ...

The southwestern Sichuan province of China experienced an earthquake of 5.0 magnitude at the early hours of Wednesday (December 10). As per the national seismic network, the tremor shook the Qingchuan County at about 2.53 am. The quake developed at around 15 km below the earth's surface. Informing ...

In a move that undoubtedly put officials in New Delhi slightly more nervous, China is likely to provide a massive $100 million financial aid to Kathmandu. The decision came soon after the visit of India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Nepal. China is seeking to improve its ...

The construction projects in China, in complete contrast to the ones in other economies, are still alive and kicking. Saturday, 29th November 2008, saw Shanghai officially starting the construction work on its tallest skyscraper, to be called the Shanghai Tower, projected to reach a height of 632 m ...

The northwest province of China experienced a powerful earthquake on November 10, 2008. The exact location of the tremor was Qinghai province of China. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the Qinghai province at about 9.22 am local time. According to the State Seismological Bureau, the epicenter of ...

A high-level conference on global climate is likely to be organized by China on November this year. Report says that China will be assisted by UN to organize the conference. The international conference on global climate will be attended by about 100 countries including a host of non-governmental ...

The two ruling political parties of Pakistan and China have inked a cooperation deal between them in Beijing on October 15, 2008. The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a view to foster regular exchanges between the ...

With a motive to sustain a viable relation with the Nepalese government, Beijing has announced to provide Rs 62.5 million as military aid to Nepal. In his recent visit to China, Nepalese Defence Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has signed an agreement with Chinese government regarding this matter. On the ...

Four infants died and hundreds fell ill in China when they consumed Nestle-brand milk that was found contaminated with traces of a hazardous industrial chemical melamine. A sample of Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk manufactured in China was tested positive for low content of melamine by Hong Kong's ...

China has unveiled world's largest sci-tech museum Guangdong Science Centre in the southern city of Guangzhou on September 19, 2008. The steel-structured main building of the museum holds a floor area that is larger than Beijing's Tain'anmem square. The Guangdong Science Centre spreads over an area ...

Tropical storm 'Sinlaku' has reached to eastern China; so far 4,60,000 people have been evacuated. Provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian located in east of mainland China have been worst affected with the storm. The typhoon Sinlaku however weakened into a tropical storm at 8 am in local time. Now, it is ...

The coming week will see Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari visiting China to negotiate a nuclear deal like the one being worked out between US and India, an official has revealed. On conditions of anonymity, the official added that Pakistan has already apprised China of its plans about ...

China is apprehensive that Indo-US nuke deal would threaten international nuclear non-proliferation. According to an article published in China newspaper, 'the People's Daily' there are many major issues concerning the US-India nuclear deal. The article shows apprehension in the mind of China about ...