The European Commission (EC) has ordered a shake-up in a major Lisbon Metro project, forcing the replacement of a Chinese subcontractor over so-called "distortive foreign subsidies." The move, taken under the bloc's Foreign Subsidies Regulation, has drawn swift backlash from the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU, which on Tuesday voiced strong opposition and […]

A video clip published by the website of China Central Television (CCTV), which has been widely shared online, unveiled how Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy Type 054A guided-missile frigate Honghe (Hull 523), with its main gun loaded, drove away a foreign warship after 20 hours of standoff.  In the clip from a documentary the CCTV […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for striving to break new ground in the high-quality development of China's service sector, according to the Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction conveyed […]

Asked by foreign media for comment on reports that US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated that the US currently has access to Chinese rare earths but is still promoting multilateral agreements to increase expected supply, and on whether the US should be concerned that China might reimpose restrictions on rare earth exports to the US, […]

An artificial intelligence (AI) video creation platform HappyHorse-1.0 has made itself a "black horse" lately. The AI model, with multiple clues indicating it is most possibly developed by a Chinese team affiliated with Alibaba, has topped both text-to-video and image-to-video leaderboards of independent third-party AI benchmarking platform Artificial Analysis during the past week, generating a […]

China launched an "artificial intelligence (AI) empowering education" action plan in which AI will be incorporated into teacher qualification exams and certification, and efforts will be accelerated to expand AI education among primary and secondary school students, the Ministry of Education said on Friday. The action plan proposes strengthening the application of intelligent teaching systems […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday urged major provincial economies to redouble efforts to gain experience in analyzing new situations and solving new problems. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while taking part in a deliberation with his […]

The center of the year's strongest typhoon, Typhoon Podul, made a second landfall in the coastal area of Zhangpu county, East China's Fujian Province, around 12:30 am on Thursday, with maximum winds of Force 11 near its center. After the landfall, Podul is expected to slow down, bringing significant wind and rain to South China's […]

Xi calls on China, EU to provide more stability, certainty for world through steady, sound bilateral relations

A high school student surnamed Hu from Lujiang, East China’s Anhui Province, who had been reported missing, has safely returned to China via the Meng’a port in Pu’er, Southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Friday, according to CCTV News.  Police investigations revealed that after going missing, Hu traveled through Ma’anshan in Anhui, Nanjing in East China’s […]