BEIJING, July 30 (ABC): Consul General of Pakistan in Shanghai, Hussain Haider said that China was the largest market for Pakistan’s gemstones and there is an immense potential for Pakistan to increase its exports of gemstones to China. “Pakistani companies need to understand the preferences and requirements of Chinese buyers to increase their presence in the Chinese market,” he said …

SANYA, July 30(ABC): China has collected 220,000 new agricultural germplasm resources since it launched a large-scale census in 2021, said a conference on the seed industry in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province. These resources include 110,000 crops, 60,000 poultry, and 50,000 aquatic germplasm resources, according to the ongoing 2022 China Seed Congress and Nanfan Agricultural Silicon Valley Forum. World-class national …

BEIJING, July 29(ABC): Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed further implementing the strategy of strengthening the armed forces by training competent personnel in the new era. Presiding over and addressing a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Thursday, Xi also urged efforts to give …

BEIJING, July 29(ABC): If the United States challenges China’s red line, it will be met with resolute countermeasures, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Friday. The U.S. side must bear all consequences arising therefrom, Zhao said at a daily news briefing when answering a query on whether U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan …

BEIJING, July 29(ABC): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday called for efforts to detail measures to expand demand, promoting effective investment and increasing consumption. Chairing a State Council executive meeting, Li stressed the importance of guaranteeing good autumn grain production to achieve a bumper harvest this year. The premier also called for efforts to cope with natural disasters and ensure …

TASHKENT, July 29(ABC): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met here on Thursday with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), discussing bilateral relations and issues of mutual interests. Noting that China and Pakistan are true friends and good brothers who …

BEIJING, July 29(ABC): China’s green loans had maintained fast expansion from the end of June 2021 to the end of June 2022 as the country steps up green growth efforts, a central bank report showed Friday. Outstanding green loans in yuan and foreign currencies reached 19.55 trillion yuan (about 2.90 trillion U.S. dollars) by the end of June, jumping 40.4 …

URUMQI/HANGZHOU, July 29(ABC): After finishing the school year in east China’s Zhejiang Province in early June, over 200 students from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region some 5,000 kilometers away embarked on their homeward journeys. More than 20 teachers from the Changxing Vocational and Technical Education Center School also boarded the train. They were not only chaperoning the trip, but were also …

BEIJING, July 29 (ABC): A Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesperson said that the recently concluded China-Pakistan joint naval exercise off Shanghai had consolidated the traditional friendship between the two countries and the two militaries, and enhanced the ability of the two navies to jointly deal with maritime security threats. The China-Pakistan joint maritime exercise “Sea Guardians-2” was held from July 10 …

BEIJING, July 29(ABC): “China is ready to continue to do its utmost to provide help to local social development and livelihood improvement”, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on a regular press conference in response to a question regarding Balochistan receiving a new relief package from China against heavy rains, reported on Thursday. “I have noted that the monsoon …