CHENGDU, Sep 23 (ABC): Hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers celebrated the fifth harvest festival on Friday, as the country expects a bumper harvest despite COVID-19 and extreme weather. After overcoming the impact of last year’s rare autumn floods in the north, late sowing of winter wheat, the sporadic resurgences of COVID-19 cases, and severe heat and drought in some …

BEIJING, Sep 22(ABC): Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has extended festive greetings and sincere regards on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to farmers and people working on agricultural and rural fronts ahead of the fifth Chinese farmers’ harvest festival. Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed …

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22(ABC): A Chinese envoy on Wednesday rejected accusations by the United States, Britain and the European Union that China commits human rights abuses against its ethnic minorities. China’s permanent representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun called the accusations unfounded. Speaking at a high-level meeting to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on …

BEIJING, Sep 22(ABC): The electric vehicle (EV) subsidy provisions in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act are discriminatory and suspected of violating the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. The relevant provisions, granting tax credits for EVs on the condition of final assembly in North America, discriminate against other similar imported products and are …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 22 (ABC):The number of 5G base stations in China registered stable growth amid the country’s efforts to advance the construction of its 5G network in recent years, official data shows. China had over 2.1 million 5G base stations by the end of August, accounting for 19.8 percent of its mobile base stations, up 5.5 percentage points from the …

BEIJING, Sep 22(ABC): China will stay committed to achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality amid recent setbacks in global carbon reduction efforts as some countries fell back on coal plants to tide over an energy crunch, an official said Thursday. “Low-carbon transformation is no walk in the park,” Liu Dechun, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission, told …

BEIJING, Sep 22(ABC): Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), or the “China Sky Eye,” an international group filmed, for the first time, the magnetic ebb and flow nearby of a fast radio burst from out of the Milky Way. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the brightest, highly-dispersed millisecond-duration astronomical transients in radio bands with yet unknown origins. Chinese …

BEIJING, Sep 22 (ABC): China will uphold a “fair” position on the Ukrainian conflict, promoting talks and peace between the warring parties, the country’s top diplomat said. “It is hoped that all parties will not give up dialogue efforts and insist on resolving security concerns through peace talks,” Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, told his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on …

BEIJING, Sep 20(ABC):  A compilation of discourses by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, on socialist cultural and ethical advancement has been published by the Central Party Literature Press and released nationwide. Compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC …

NEW YORK, Sep 20(ABC): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday met with representatives from the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the U.S.-China Business Council and the United States Chamber of Commerce. Wang said that the world today is far from peace, as the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to end, and the Ukraine crisis was once …