In what is believed to be a world first, Shanghai this week introduced a new type of Covid-19 vaccine that is inhaled rather than administered via injection. Mainland regulators approved the vaccine, produced by Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino B...

Beijing mayor Chen Jining has been appointed Communist Party secretary of Shanghai, succeeding Li Qiang who is now the second-ranked state leader. Chen, 58, was named a member of the Politburo at the recently concluded 20th party congress. Chen bec...

The International Monetary Fund on Friday said China's economic slowdown is expected to drag on growth across Asia through the end of next year. Worldwide economic prospects have dimmed this year as countries have faced higher living costs, tighter ...

Rich countries must move on from "empty slogans" when it comes to climate change and make progress in meeting funding commitments, a Beijing official said on Thursday ahead of a new round of global climate talks in Egypt next month. "It is importan...

Profits at China's industrial firms fell at a faster clip in the January-September period amid Covid-19 and property woes that weighed on factory activity. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, industrial firms with annual main b...

The German cabinet approved on Wednesday an investment by China's Cosco for a 24.9 percent stake in one of logistics firm HHLA's three terminals in Germany's largest port in Hamburg. This is less than the initially planned 35 percent stake that the ...

Beijing said on Tuesday it will promote foreign investment with a focus on manufacturing industries, after President Xi Jinping called on the nation to "win the battle" in core technologies during the Communist Party Congress that ended over the week...

The mainland's economy grew 3.9 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, according to official data released on Monday, beating forecasts. The data – published six days later than scheduled – showed higher growth than the 2.5 percent predicted...

China's new-look Politburo Standing Committee unveiled on Sunday has four new faces. Li Qiang, the second-ranked leader, has been a member of the Politburo and served as Shanghai party secretary since 2017. Li, 63, previously served as Jiangsu part...

President Xi Jinping on Sunday pledged to press forward with self-reform of the Communist Party to make it ever stronger, as he was re-elected for a third term as party general secretary. A day after the end of the 20th party congress, he led the ne...

The Communist Party's new Central Committee will have 205 members, state media reported, after President Xi Jinping declared the 20th congress a "complete success". The list published by Xinhua News Agency revealed new additions to the committee, bu...

President Xi Jinping on Saturday said the 20th CPC National Congress in Beijing has been a complete success in unifying and strengthening the party, as he closed the week-long event in Beijing. Xi was speaking to party members in the Great Hall of t...

China's property shares jumped on Friday after state media said authorities will ease share financing rules for certain real estate-related firms, fuelling hopes of more measures to aid the sector. The China Securities Regulatory Commission will all...

A large deep-water deep-stratum gas field with reserves exceeding 50 billion cubic metres, the first of its kind in China, was discovered in waters southeast of Hainan Island, according to the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc). The gas...

China kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged for a second straight month on Thursday, in line with expectations, as authorities held off unleashing more monetary stimulus to avoid stark policy divergence with other major economies. The one-year ...

The rule-of-law system with Chinese characteristics has made progress, an official said at a 20th party congress press conference on Wednesday. During the briefing, Yin Bai, deputy secretary-general of the Commission of Political and Legal Affairs o...

Shanghai plans to build a 3,250-bed Covid-19 quarantine facility on a small island close to its city centre, as China stands by its zero-Covid controls. The city awarded a 1.38 billion yuan contract to build the centre on Fuxing Island, located in ...

President and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, said his work report to the 20th party congress will serve as a political manifesto for the party to unite and lead people of all ethnic groups to uphold and develop socialis...

Mainland authorities have reported an additional 795 Covid-19 cases. According to the National Health Commission, there were 208 locally transmitted and 587 asymptomatic infections on Monday. No deaths were reported. Of the locally transmitted cas...

Beijing said on Monday it will delay the release of growth figures for the third quarter along with a host of other economic indicators expected this week. The National Bureau of Statistics announced that the release of the economic data would be "p...