Former President Jiang Zemin was cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetary in Beijing on Monday morning, Xinhua News Agency reports, a day ahead of a memorial service that will see the entire nation observe three minutes of silence to mourn th...

The daily Covid-19 caseload on the mainland has dropped below 30,000 as local authorities relaxed coronavirus restrictions. According to the National Health Commission, there were 4,247 locally transmitted and 25,477 asymptomatic infections on Sunda...

Three taikonauts landed back on earth on Sunday on board the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, after six months working to complete construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the nation’s ambitious space programme. The trio â€...

Mainland authorities on Sunday reported 31,601 new local Covid cases, down slightly on the previous tally of nearly 33,000. Health officials said 4,168, or around 13 percent, had symptoms, while the rest were asymptomatic. There were two more Covi...

Shenzhen on Saturday relaxed Covid-19 measures in the bustling city, dropping a previous requirement for people using public transport to first produce proof of a negative PCR test. The city's transport bureau announced that effective immediately, p...

The nation's economy will keep growing at a reasonable speed with stable employment and prices, finance minister Liu Kun said in a speech at the Asean plus Three Economic Cooperation and Financial Stability Forum in a video on Friday. Beijing will c...

A memorial for the late former president Jiang Zemin will be held on Tuesday in Beijing. An announcement from Jiang's funeral committee said it will start at 10am at the Great Hall of the People. The event will be broadcast live. During the cerem...

Beijing will strengthen strategic communication and coordination with the European Union, President Xi Jinping told the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, on Thursday. In a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in the Chinese capit...

Chinese newspapers turned their front pages black on Thursday and flags were flown at half mast in mourning for the death of former president Jiang Zemin. Jiang died in his home city of Shanghai just after noon on Wednesday of leukaemia and multiple...

Vice Premier Sun Chunlan called for further efforts to improve Covid-19 prevention and control measures, urging "optimisation" of testing, treatment and quarantine policies, as the virus weakens in pathogenicity, according to state media. Her remark...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday expressed profound mourning for former leader Jiang Zemin, hailing him as an outstanding leader of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Xi was speaking ahead of talks with President Thongloun S...

Flags are flying at half-mast at major government buildings across the country to mourn the death of former president Jiang Zemin on Wednesday at the age of 96. A committee organising the funeral said national flags will fly at half-mast at Tiananme...

Former president Jiang Zemin, who served as head of state from 1993 to 2003 during which China saw huge economic and social changes, has died at the age of 96. According to an announcement made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and ot...

Life in the Covid-hit mainland city of Zhengzhou was returning to normal on Wednesday thanks to a drop in the number of infections. The capital of Henan province is home to a vast Foxconn factory making Apple iPhones that was the scene of recent wor...

Factory activity in China contracted at a faster pace in November, an official survey showed on Wednesday, weighed down by Covid-19 curbs and softening global demand, underscoring the increasing pressure faced by the world's second-largest economy. ...

China's latest manned space mission blasted off on Tuesday evening, with three taikonauts embarking on a half-year-long mission that will see them officially finalise the construction of the Tiangong space station. The launch of the Shenzhou-15 too...

The People’s Liberation Army said on Tuesday it drove away a US guided-missile cruiser that "illegally intruded" into waters near the South China Sea's Nansha Qundao, a claim that the US Navy disputed. "The actions of the US military seriously vio...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the so-called "golden era" of relations with China was over, saying Beijing's systemic challenge to Britain's interests and values was growing more acute. In his first major foreign policy speech, Sunak sa...

The National Health Commission (NHC) on Tuesday reported a decline in new Covid-19 infections for November 28 to 38,645, after posting a record daily high of 40,347 cases a day earlier. Excluding imported infections, the NHC confirmed 38,421 new loc...

The Shenzhou-15 spacecraft will blast off to the Tiangong space station at 11:08 pm Beijing time on November 29, the China Manned Space Agency said on Monday. The Shenzhou-15 mission will wrap up the last stage of the space station's construction, a...