Chinese authorities have banned footballers from getting tattoos and instructed national team players who have been inked to remove or cover them up to set a "good example for society". A growing number of high-profile Chinese players have been spor...

The mainland on Monday recorded 182 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday. Of the new local cases, 180 were reported in Shaanxi, and one each in Zhejiang and Yunnan, the commission...

Xi'an tightened curbs on travel within the city on Monday as it started a new round of testing on the fifth day of a lockdown of its 13 million people. Xi'an reported 150 new local symptomatic coronavirus cases for Sunday, a slight drop from the pre...

Taikonauts who are working on the nation's first space station have taken part in the second spacewalk of their mission since arriving on the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft in October, official media has reported. Broadcaster CCTV reported that Ye Guangfu ...

A man died and a rescue operation was under way for at least two others who went missing after a mainland fishing vessel caught fire and capsized just outside Hong Kong waters off Sai Kung on Sunday. Local police said their mainland counterparts re...

The mainland reported its highest daily rise in local Covid-19 cases in 21 months as infections more than doubled in the northwestern city of Xi'an, the country's latest Covid hot spot. The city of 13 million, which entered its fourth day of lockdow...

China reported 140 new confirmed coronavirus cases for December 24, up from 87 a day earlier, the health authority said on Saturday. Of the new infections, 87 were locally transmitted, according to a statement by the National Health Commission, comp...

Japan will not send a government delegation to February's Winter Olympics in Beijing, it said on Friday. Responding to Tokyo's move, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular news conference that China welcomes Olympic officials and athl...

The annual "two sessions" meetings are set for the first week of March next year. According to a decision by the National People's Congress Standing Committee on Friday, the 13th NPC will kick off its fifth annual session in Beijing on March 5, 2022...

A day after enforcing a strict lockdown on 13 million people in Xi'an - the ancient capital of Shaanxi - mainland officials have reported 52 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases in the province. On Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported 127 peo...

China ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases, setting off panic buying just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympic Games. ...

The northern city of Xi'an dramatically tightened Covid travel controls on Wednesday to fight a growing outbreak, with people banned from boarding trains without official permission and hundreds of flights cancelled. With Beijing preparing to host t...

China has the confidence, condition, and ability to keep economic growth at a reasonable level, a senior state planning official told the Xinhua News Agency. The world's second-largest economy faces multiple challenges heading into 2022, as a proper...

China said on Tuesday it has imposed sanctions on four US nationals in what it says is a "reciprocal countermeasure" to Washington's earlier sanctions against four mainland officials over Xinjiang issues. The Foreign Ministry said the four are Nadi...

China will give pregnant women the right to chose a caesarean birth for babies even if husbands object, state media reported on Tuesday, one of the latest steps to safeguard women's rights in a society in which traditions can play a powerful role. T...

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) on Tuesday conducted a total of 20 billion yuan (about US$3.1 billion) of reverse repurchase agreements, or repos, to maintain liquidity in the mainland's banking system, according to the Xinhua News Agency. The PBO...

The mainland reported 57 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, six of them in Guangdong. The National Health Commission said 43 of the infections were in Shaanxi and eight in Zhejiang, according to the Xinhua News Agency. It also c...

Four people were killed and another eight injured when part of a bridge ramp collapsed on Saturday in Ezhou City, in central Hubei province, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The bridge collapsed over an expressway, causing three trucks to f...

Authorities in Shanxi province were on Thursday in a race against time to try to rescue 22 people trapped in a flooded coal mine. Authorities there blamed illegal mining for the incident. According to Xinhua News Agency, it happened on Wednesday ni...

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a video call on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations and international affairs, a summit that comes amid heightened tensions between Moscow and the West over a Russian troop bui...