China will continue retiring substandard production capacity - especially in steel and iron, coal mining and coal-fired power plants - to keep up with targets set for the year.
Before leaving for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Tuesday in Nairobi that he is looking forward to positive results that will be beneficial not only for Kenya but also for all of Africa and for China.
Veteran politician Jean-Pierre Raffarin, picked by French president-elect Emmanuel Macron as special representative at an upcoming forum on the Belt and Road Initiative, called the initiative "an invitation for Europe to look more to the East".
In their first telephone talk, President Xi Jinping and French president-elect Emmanuel Macron agreed on Tuesday to maintain contact and meet each other at an early date.
Milos Zeman, president of the Czech Republic, has hailed the Belt and Road Initiative as the greatest infrastructure project in history and said he is looking forward to building greater connectivity between China and his country.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that the China-led Belt and Road Initiative can be a "very important instrument" to meet the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Twelve people, including 11 kindergartners, were killed Tuesday when a school bus crashed and then burst into flames as it traveled through a tunnel in Weihai, Shandong province.
SEOUL - Moon Jae-in of the liberal Democratic Party led media exit polls in the Republic of Korea's presidential election by a large margin, a survey conducted for three local broadcasters showed Tuesday.
While it's a well-known cliche that you can find a Chinese restaurant in just about any city in the world, it was still interesting to see them on a recent trip to Rome and Palermo, the capital of the Italian province of Sicily.
Item from May 10, 1985, in China Daily: The celebrated Yellow Crane Tower, which was built during the Three Kingdoms (220-280), and last destroyed in 1884, has been rebuilt at its original site near the Yangtze River harbor of Wuhan, Hubei province. The tower is scheduled to open on May 20 after the last tier of its stone stairway is finished.
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