Three Chinese astronauts are scheduled to return to Earth in mid-April after a six-month stay on the country's Tiangong space station. Let's look back on the joy and wonder of their incredible journey.
Photographer Li Zhigang has taken a series of pictures of bharal, or blue sheep running along Helan Mountain in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region on April 4.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday visited a research institute of the Ocean University of China in Hainan province to learn about the development of marine science and technology.
“We are very determined to serve our country. All Chinese people are in this together,” said a building worker on Friday. Thanks to efforts of workers from across China, the largest makeshift hospital in Shanghai was put into use on Saturday, within days to aid the megacity's fight against resurging COVID-19.
Chris Tang Ping-keung, secretary for security of the HKSAR, says Hong Kong people are now well aware of the smearing campaign mounted against Hong Kong by external hostile forces following the implementation of the National Security Law for the SAR. He made the remark in an interview with China Daily.
"Nothing is ending, neither the COVID-19 nor the pandemic," said Debora MacKenzie, a leading science journalist who currently lives in France. She addressed the false narratives about COVID-19 during an interview with GDToday, saying, "Lots of governments in the west use slogans such as 'living with COVID' to make their citizens happy but we need to make sure that people have access to the truth."
The National Exhibition and Convention Center, which will be used as a makeshift hospital with a planned capacity of 50,000 beds to curb the latest resurgence of COVID-19 in Shanghai, is making last-minute preparations.
The Chinese CDC estimated if China chose to "live with COVID-19" like some countries are encouraging, its daily cases would skyrocket to hundreds of thousands and quickly overwhelm the country's medical system. But as vaccination, treatment and quarantine measures improve, it is possible to greatly reduce the harm the coronavirus can do.
A multiple-unit train customized by CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles went into operation on March 30 in Guiyang – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – on China's first municipal loop-line express rail system, according to local media reports.
Retno Mustikawati, an Indonesian alumnus of the College of Liberal Arts of Shanghai University, has composed an encouraging song for Shanghai to root on the city in overcoming the current COVID-19 outbreak.In the music video, many other foreign students and alumni of the university join in to send their wishes and blessings to the city where they lived and studied, which for many has become their second hometown.They hope Shanghai will “bring the great again” as the lyrics in the song go.
To provide more isolation facilities under the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the #HongKong SAR government decided to build new quarantine facilities at Penny’s Bay and Kai Tak. Chiu Wai, a graduate engineer of China State Construction International Holdings Ltd, joined a task force as the first batch of pioneers, knowing how time-sensitive the task is for Hong Kong.
Over recent decades, China has made extraordinary progress in curbing desertification. It has become the first country to see an overall reduction in desertified land.
What is the secret behind the country's success? In Lingwu, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, local people's efforts to battle encroaching sands might offer a clue.
Edwin Chan King-san, a young entrepreneur from Hong Kong now based in Shenzhen, is doing his part to help in the battle against COVID-19 in the two cities. "We are willing to contribute as much as we can," he told China Daily. Check out this video to learn more.
As winter wheat seedlings sprout, farmers in Hushan town of Rongcheng, Shandong province, are turning to self-propelled sprayers and drones to tend the crop.
In the face of an upsurge in COVID-19 cases, Hong Kong Baptist University launched an online traditional Chinese medicine prevention and treatment service, giving out free medicines to COVID-19 patients. Treatment and disease prevention with the use of TCM has been given full play against the pandemic in the city.
A music video titled "Hope of the World — Go Shanghai!" and containing words of encouragement for health workers, community workers and volunteers in Shanghai was published online by The Expatriate Center on Wednesday.
