Feb 19 marks the start of the Chinese Year of the Sheep, taking over the Year of the Horse. With one month to go before Spring Festival, Austrian Ambassador to China Irene Giner-Reichl (right) shares her exciting moments in 2014
As Premier Li Keqiang departs for Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday to attend the World Economic Forum meetings, global business and opinion leaders are expecting the second-most-powerful man in China to demonstrate active engagement in international affairs and a strong resolve for deeper economic reforms against a backdrop of a global recession.
China is playing an increasingly prominent role on the world stage, and what China does is an increasingly important factor in how the world moves.
The chance to toss a question to dozens of state leaders, as well as 2,500 leading lights in business, opinion and media, is not one to be scoffed at.
Wealth accumulated by the richest 1 percent will exceed that of the other 99 percent in 2016, the Oxfam charity said on Monday, ahead of the annual meeting of the world's most powerful elites in Davos, Switzerland.
Premier Li Keqiang's presence at the World Economic Forum's 45th Annual Meeting will surely strengthen the international community's confidence in China's economic outlook, Wu Hailong, ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, told Xinhua News Agency in a recent interview.
China is now the world's leader in renewable energy generation, which will allow it to reduce its dependency on coal power and cut carbon emissions, according to a senior energy official.
Klaus Schwab has long been optimistic that China is on the right path. But as the country enters what many are calling a new normal of medium growth, the 76-year-old founder of the World Economic Forum thinks Premier Li Keqiang needs to let the world know that China will continue to drive the global economy.
A Chinese newspaper apologized on Sunday for taking photos of a deceased singer as she lay in a mortuary.
With a long line of trucks and front loaders fully packed in the spacious yard of his company, Lyu Wei, general manager of Heihe Fengtai Engineering Machinery Products Trade Co, has enough reasons to worry about his company's performance in 2015.
Along with the rest of the world, I watched two rock climbers complete an amazing "free" ascent of the massive, 900-meter vertical granite cliff known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California, last week.
Item from Jan 19, 1991, in China Daily: At a newspaper and magazine stall on central Beijing's Dongsi street people line up for the latest news on the war in the Gulf. Newspaper circulations have doubled or tripled in the capital since the start of the war.
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