One Saturday in April, Ai Xiao, a 28-year-old Beijing professional, did something she had rarely done previously: going by herself to a park near her apartment and lying on the grass. “It seemed a bit weird since most of the people there were with th

‘What do you want to be when you grow up?” “We children in Palestine do not grow up.” This snippet comes from a conversation between a reporter and a child in the wartorn Palestinian enclave that is the Gaza Strip in 2023. Even today, the agonies of

When international travelers began arriving in China in early 2023 following a three-year COVID-19 hiatus, many may have found that routine daily tasks posed challenges. Because they were more at ease with cash and credit cards and were unfamiliar wi

The recent confrontation between Iran and Israel marks an escalation in an already unstable region, signaling a potentially dangerous trajectory in Middle Eastern geopolitics. On April 13, Iran launched drone and missile strikes against Israeli targe

Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng on April 19 visited the Fairbank Center for China Studies at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had an in-depth discussion on China-U.S. relations with experts and scholars. The foll

Nuclear power generation on the Chinese mainland reached 440,000 gigawatt-hours in 2023, accounting for nearly 5 percent of total national electricity output, according to the China Atomic Energy Authority on April 23. This achievement is equivalent

The world economy is experiencing what the World Bank calls “the slowest half-decade of GDP growth in 30 years.” As some of China’s key growth catalysts weaken against this backdrop, a few stakeholders in the Western economy have become defeatist and

A group of people under the age of 30 sit in a coffee house in Beijing’s Dongcheng District on April 16, reflecting on their freshly concluded Social Impact Week (SIW). “It’s been an amazing week!” “The Great Wall is one of my favorite places.” “It’s

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As China continues its transition to higher-quality economic development, it is increasing its reliance on new quality productive forces, those driven by innovation and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). In addition to lifting tra

‘The Switzerland-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) entered into force 10 years ago and it became gradually more important as China reduced its tariffs in accordance with a schedule that—for most tariff lines—extended over 10 years,” said Swiss Ambassa

In early March, a couple in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, grabbed social media headlines by hosting a wedding that only cost 5,000 yuan ($690)—a number well below the average cost of weddings in China. According to market consultancy iiMedia Research,

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced measures to boost cooperation between the capital markets of the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) on April 19. The scope of eligible exchange-traded funds (

International Workers’ Day is celebrated on May 1 each year, but even though employees around China will be taking a five-day break from Wednesday, May 1, until Sunday, May 5, only one of those days counts as a true day off work. Like many other holi

Every year, ruddy shelducks, a migratory bird species, take a break from their northbound journey in Xiaotanzi, a village on the bank of the Yellow River in Jungar Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Over the past few years, the loc

Chinese astronauts Ye Guangfu (center), Li Cong (right) and Li Guangsu set out on a new crewed spaceflight mission on April 25, with Ye as commander. On that day, the Shenzhou-18 spaceship was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gans

There was a time when business leaders tended to come up with ideas and make big decisions from behind the scenes, but those days may be coming to an end. In the era of information and technology, these leaders are increasingly placing themselves fro

U.S. President Joe Biden and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a “new era” in the two countries’ alliance in Washington, D.C., on April 10. A joint statement released by the White House after their two-hour meeting unveiled pla

According to the ancient Greek version of the world map from the fifth century B.C., the outermost layer of the world was ocean, and in the center of the ocean was one large continent. In the middle of the continent, there was the Mediterranean Sea.

New business models emerging through the development of Internet and artificial intelligence technologies are becoming major drivers of consumption in China, playing an increasingly important role in boosting economic and social development. Accordin

Despite recent concerns about China’s economic prospects, the world’s second largest economy looks set to maintain growth. Its performance in the first quarter (Q1) of this year offers a glimpse into its evolving dynamics. The country’s GDP reached 2

The Spanish edition of Xi Jinping on the Belt and Road Initiative is helping Latin American countries better understand and participate in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), officials and scholars said at a seminar held for readers to

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Fabulous voyagers! What historiesAre there behind your deep and distant stare!Show us the treasures of your memories,Those jewels and riches made of stars and air. French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) wrote these lines in his poem Le Voyage (The