Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa will make an official visit to China from Saturday through Wednesday on the invitation of Premier Li Keqiang.
As the national weeklong vacation drew to an close on Friday, reality showed again that getting back to town can be just as hard as leaving it, especially for residents of major metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai.
The Communist Party of China is ready to carry out dialogues and exchanges with the political parties in Hungary to strengthen friendship and understanding between the two peoples, a senior Party official said on Thursday.
Taiwan authorities will feel the pain if they continue to provoke the mainland, a Taiwan affairs scholar from the mainland said in response to Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's recent comment about "China" and attempts to deepen a relationship with Japan and the United States.
The recent collapse of the Great Wall's "Moon Gate" - a well-known landmark in Guangwu, Shanxi province - has put protection of the wall into the limelight a second time in a few weeks.
The inclusion of the Chinese currency into the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights basket will not only help China's financial reforms but the evolution of the international financial system, according to IMF officials and think-tank economists.
The body of a female backpacker who disappeared when hiking at Kanas scenic spot in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region more than a week ago was found in a river near Kanas Lake on Tuesday, the Altay tourism bureau said.
The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously backed Antonio Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal who was the UN's refugee chief for a decade, to be the next secretary-general.
Hard work on the ground ensures dream of success can take flight
In the 1970s, China anchored the construction of the Tazara railway linking Tanzania and Zambia - a project that greatly boosted the two countries' economies. A little more than 40 years later, a new episode of railway history was written, again with a Chinese helping hand, as East Africa's first modern electrified standard gauge railway was inaugurated on Wednesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.