President Xi Jinping hailed China’s rise as a global power and demanded unity around his leadership yesterday, launching a Communist Party Congress that is set to rubber stamp his bid to rule for a historic third term.

President Xi Jinping yesterday said China will give priority to environmental protection and promoting green lifestyles, and that the conservation of nature was an essential part of building a modern socialist country.

President Xi Jinping is expected to be handed a historic third term in control of China on October 23, it emerged yesterday, after a spokesman confirmed the Communist Party’s 20th Congress will end the previous day.

Fish fossils dating back 440 million years are helping to “fill some of the key gaps” on how humans evolved from fish, researchers said on Wednesday.

China’s Communist Party said yesterday that it had elected all the delegates attending a key political meeting starting October 16, where President Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term.

The Chinese embassy in Bangladesh in collaboration with the foreign affairs office of the People’s Government of Yunnan Province and Yunnan Commercial Representative Office in Dhaka organised a programme to celebrate the 73rd National Day of the People’s Republic of China on Saturday. 

A bus crash killed 27 people and injured a further 20 when the vehicle rolled over on a highway in southwest China's mountainous Guizhou province, local police said in a statement on Sunday.

The Chinese city of Chongqing reported one case of the monkeypox virus infection on Friday in an individual who arrived from abroad, marking mainland China's first known monkeypox infection amid the recent global outbreak of the virus.

China will impose sanctions on the CEOs of Boeing Defense and Raytheon over their involvement in Washington's latest arms sales to Taiwan, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday.

High winds and heavy rain lashed China’s densely populated east coast yesterday after Typhoon Muifa forced around 1.6 million people to leave their homes

China is willing to shape the international order together with Russia in a “more just and rational direction”, a senior Chinese diplomat said as the two countries’ leaders prepare to meet this week.

China has reopened roads leading to the epicentre of Monday’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan and traffic has

Chinese firefighters worked in treacherous terrain yesterday to help evacuate more than 11,000 people after a magnitude-6.8 quake struck China’s mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan a day earlier, killing at least 66 people.

Beijing yesterday accused the United States of launching “tens of thousands” of cyberattacks on China and pilfering troves of sensitive data, including from a public research university.

At least 30 people were killed when a strong earthquake struck southwestern China yesterday, state media reported, as violent tremors in a remote region damaged homes and left some areas without electricity.

China’s top legislator Li Zhanshu will visit Russia next week, state media reported yesterday, becoming the highest-ranking Communist Party politician to travel to the country since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

Two Chinese fighter jets crossed on Sunday the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which normally acts as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, Taiwan's defence ministry said, as Beijing continues its military activities near the island.

China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.

Around 16 million people in the Chinese city of Chengdu will be effectively under lockdown from yesterday as authorities race to snuff out a new Covid-19 outbreak.

China's "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.