Chief Executive John Lee held a video call with Hong Kong's first astronaut Lai Ka-ying to wish her success ahead of her historic space mission. Lai has been selected as a payload specialist for the Shenzhou-23 spaceflight mission, which is schedul...

Lai Ka-ying, Hong Kong's first astronaut who has been selected to be a payload specialist for Sunday's Shenzhou-23 spaceflight mission, said on Saturday she felt very honoured and thankful to be chosen. "I will do my best to finish all the work, and...

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on Saturday, kicking-off his official visit to China until May 26. A spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said that Sharif's visit to China is an important hi...

China's Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship is on schedule to launch at 11.08pm on Sunday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Saturday. A Long March-2F carrier rocket, which will be...

President Xi Jinping on Saturday urged all-out rescue efforts for those missing and treatment for those injured in a coal mine gas explosion in Shanxi. In a press conference on Saturday night, the mayor of Changzhi City said 82 people were killed, t...

The China Manned Space Agency said on Saturday that Lai Ka-ying, the first astronaut from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, has been selected as a payload specialist for the Shenzhou-23 spaceflight mission. Lai's crewmates will be Zhu...

Wang Yi will travel to New York and chair a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council on May 26, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, before visiting Canada in a first by the country's foreign minister in 10 years. In New York, he will meet UN S...

China said it supported Cuba and urged the United States to "stop brandishing the judicial stick" against the country, after Washington indicted the Caribbean island's former leader Raúl Castro on murder charges. The US charges against the 94-year-...

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had a tea chat on Wednesday night at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi said that over the years, he and Putin have maintained frequent and close exchanges, and jointly created...

China will buy 200 Boeing jets, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Wednesday, days after President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump held talks in Beijing. Washington will guarantee Beijing a sufficient supply of engines and spare pa...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for driving the development and revitalisation of China and Russia through their comprehensive strategic coordination of even higher quality. Xi made the remarks while holding talks with visiting Russian Pres...

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin opened talks in Beijing on Wednesday. Prior to their meeting, Xi held a welcome ceremony for Putin, who's on a state visit to China. Xi was seen walking down the steps of the Great Hal...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Tuesday evening for a two-day state visit. He was welcomed at the airport in Beijing by Foreign Minister Wang Yi. On Wednesday, Putin will meet with President Xi Jinping to discuss cooperation in...

Researchers are proposing a hydrogen energy corridor be established between Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Shantou. The director of Chinese University's Centre for Social and Political Development Studies, Victor Zheng, says Shantou provides cheap hydroge...

Torrential rain across southern and central China triggered widespread flooding on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, closing schools and businesses, and disrupting transport and power supplies, authorities said. The China Meteorological Administ...

A joint Chinese-European spacecraft blasted off into orbit on Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield. Particularly fierce solar storms can knock o...

Russia and China are actively expanding their contacts in politics, the economy and defence, while broadening humanitarian exchanges and encouraging person-to-person interaction, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday in a video message del...

Premier Li Qiang on Monday emphasised efforts to promote deep integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced manufacturing. Li made the remarks during an inspection tour in Beijing. The premier called for scaling up the application of i...

China's value-added industrial output increased by 5.6 percent year on year in the first four months of 2026, official data showed on Monday while retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, expanded 1.9 p...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Liuzhou, a city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, early on Monday, leaving two people dead and another missing, local authorities said. The quake hit Liunan District at 0.21am at a depth of 8km, according to ...