British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit China from Wednesday to Saturday. The Foreign Ministry said he will pay an official visit to China at the invitation of Premier Li Qiang. Starmer is set to meet President Xi Jinping and other top leade...

President Xi Jinping said China and Europe are partners, not adversaries, in his meeting with visiting Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo in Beijing on Tuesday. Xi said cooperation between China and Europe outweighs competition, and their common gr...

China on Monday said a preliminary trade deal with Canada was not directed at any third party. Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun also told a regular media briefing that arrangements made between the two countries to properly address their econom...

The new president and chair of the board of directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Zou Jiayi, on Monday said there is huge collaboration potential between the Beijing-headquartered bank and Hong Kong. Speaking at a panel duri...

The Hong Kong section of the high-speed rail network is expanding its reach into the mainland, with 16 new direct destinations added from Monday, according to the MTR Corporation. The expansion spans parts of eastern China, Chaoshan in Guangdong, as...

The deputy governor of the People's Bank of China (PBoC), Zou Lan, on Monday said China would promote greater financial market connectivity between the mainland and Hong Kong. Speaking at the 19th Asian Financial Forum, Zou said the PBoC ⁠would su...

Hong Kong has signed an agreement with the Shanghai Gold Exchange in a bid to strengthen collaboration between the two gold markets. Speaking at the Asian Financial Forum on Monday, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui s...

The defence ministry on Saturday announced that senior military officials Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli have been investigated for suspected serious discipline and law violations. Zhang is a member of the Communist Party of China's Political Bureau an...

A new cold wave is forecast to sweep through central and eastern China from Sunday to Tuesday, bringing snow, rain and a drop in temperatures, the National Meteorological Center said on Saturday. That will see light to moderate snowfalls in regions ...

The US military has released a priority-shifting National Defence Strategy that chastised the country's allies in urging them to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphe...

China Coast Guard personnel had retrieved 17 Filipino crew members from a shipwreck in the South China Sea as of 12.30pm, the People's Liberation Army Southern Theatre Command said on Friday. Fourteen of those rescued are in stable condition and one...

China's high-quality development via high-level opening-up will provide more opportunities for co-operation with Brazil, President Xi Jinping said on Friday. He made the remarks during a phone call with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva....

TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, has finalised a deal to establish a majority American-owned joint venture that will secure US data, to avoid a ban by Washington on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans. The deal is a milesto...

A Chinese envoy said on Wednesday that Japan is not qualified at all for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Japanese militarism has not been thoroughly reckoned with and its right-wing forces are pushing for remilitarisation, s...

Def Jam, the influential US record label, will launch a division in the "capital of Chinese hip-hop" Chengdu, its parent company Universal Music announced late on Tuesday, in a vote of confidence for China's music scene. The New York-based label wor...

President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for solid efforts to secure a good start to the 15th Five-Year Plan. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, ma...

China never deliberately pursued a trade surplus and is willing to be "the world's market", Vice Premier He Lifeng told the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Tuesday. "We are not only willing to be the world's factory, but also, more eagerly, to be the ...

The British government has given approval for China to build its largest embassy in Europe in London. Local Government Secretary Steve Reed formally approved plans for the building on the site of the two-century-old Royal Mint Court near the Tower o...

China has demanded that Afghanistan do more to protect Chinese citizens after a bombing at a restaurant in Kabul killed at least seven people, including a Chinese man. Speaking at a regular press briefing on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo J...

China has received an invitation from the United States to join US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace for Gaza", Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday. Guo did not specify whether Beijing would accept the invitation. The board...