The Chinese economy will continue to fare well in the second half of the year after expanding by 6.7 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, and this will help shore up the depressed world economy, analysts said.
Russian and Cambodian leaders voiced support for China on the South China Sea issue during a summit on Friday, and Beijing said it was willing to hold talks with an envoy of the Philippine government.
The Communist Youth League, which is an affiliate of the Communist Party of China, recently posted a video titled This Is China on the Twitter-like Weibo platform. The video shows members of Tianfu Shibian, a band from Chengdu city in Southwest China's Sichuan province, rapping about the "Chi phenomenon".
Public telephones with shelters were once a common sight on city streets, and provided a way for people to keep in touch with friends and relatives. The photo (above) shows a mother using a public telephone to make a call in Sanya, Hainan province in 1993. But all this has changed.
Fortune China released its list of the Top 500 companies in China for 2016 on Wednesday. According to its website, the total operating revenue of the 500 companies accounted for 30.77 trillion yuan ($4.6 trillion), a rise of 1.2 percent from last year. The combined net profit of the companies was 2.74 trillion yuan, a rise of 1.5 percent. Meanwhile, despite a slump in oil prices, oil-related companies still topped the list.
Asia and Europe have great opportunities before them but also tough challenges, especially the thorny issues of terrorism and the refugee crisis, Premier Li Keqiang told a gathering of leaders from the two continents in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Friday.
Conflict is not the way to solve territorial problems, and working together, building trust and friendship, developing mutually beneficial economic activities is the way to move forward, said Tung Chee-hwa, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former chief executive of the Hong Kong SAR.
More than 210 Chinese have been evacuated from South Sudan since the cease-fire declared by President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar on Monday, after five days of clashes that left more than 300 dead, including two Chinese UN peacekeepers.
An increasing number of vendors on China's online shopping site taobao.com have stopped selling dried mango imported from the Philippines since The Hague tribunal ruled against China in the South China Sea on Tuesday.
A landslide that killed 73 people and left four others missing in the southern city of Shenzhen on Dec 20 was an "extraordinarily serious" industrial safety accident, according to a report issued on Friday by a State Council investigative team.
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