BEIJING, June 10 (ABC): China’s foreign trade rebounded in May, a sign of overall recovery as the government’s policy package to stabilize the economy while containing COVID-19 resurgences started to pay off. The country’s total imports and exports went up 9.6 percent year on year to 3.45 trillion yuan last month on top of April’s 0.1-percent expansion, official data showed …

BEIJING, June 7 (ABC): China owns nearly 40 percent of the standard essential patents for 5G technology, staying at the top of the world rankings, according to a new report by the National Intellectual Property Administration. More than 210,000 standard-essential patents for 5G are declared worldwide at present, involving almost 47,000 patent families. China has declared 18,728 patent families, accounting …

BEIJING, June 7 (ABC): China’s national college entrance exam, or Gaokao, kicked off on Tuesday. A record 11.93 million students across the country have registered for this year’s exam. Chinese President Xi Jinping has on many occasions shared his insights on higher education, from building world-class universities to suggestions on how to spend the years on campus. The following are …

BEIJING, June 7 (ABC): After taking pictures with his family at the gate of Dacheng Middle School in Beijing, Wang Junkun had his temperature taken, showed his exam admission ticket, and walked into the school at 8:10 a.m. to take the annual college entrance exam in China. Senior high candidates like Wang have spent most of the past three years …

BEIJING, June 7 (ABC): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has stressed further smoothing transportation and logistics to ensure the operation of market entities and stabilize the economy. Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while inspecting the Ministry of Transport on Monday, urging efforts to …

XINING, June 7 (ABC): China has approved a plan to establish a national park at Qinghai Lake in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, local authorities said Tuesday. Gao Jingyu, deputy director of the protection and utilization administration in the Qinghai Lake scenic area, said that the administration will strive to complete the establishment of the Qinghai Lake National Park in 2024. …

BEIJING, June 07 (ABC): China will advance cold storage facilities construction in agricultural producing areas to better serve the rural industry and raise farmers’ incomes, said a circular issued on Monday. Market entities will be encouraged to establish and renovate cold chain distribution centers in producing places, said the circular jointly released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs …

BEIJING, June 07(ABC): A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson lashed out at the United States on Monday, saying that the United States has been engaging in “coercion diplomacy” and that China is ready to work with all countries upholding justice to oppose all forms of coercive acts around the world. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a daily press briefing …

SHENYANG, June 06 (ABC): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday urged efforts to build a beautiful China in which humanity and nature coexist in harmony and contribute more to jointly constructing a clean and beautiful world. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in …

BEIJING, June 6 (ABC): China’s paper-making industry reported steady output growth in the first four months of the year, official data shows. The country’s machine-made paper and paperboard output totaled 44.31 million tonnes from January to April, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The reading was up 0.3 percent from the same period in the previous year, …