China has cloned two monkeys using the same method that created Dolly the sheep in Scotland, paving the way for more accurate and affordable animal testing for new drugs, scientists said on Thursday.
China plans to further transfer 1.73 trillion yuan ($270.8 billion) of existing less-transparent local government debt into bonds by August to strengthen debt management and control potential risks, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday after reporting financial revenue in 2017 that was higher than expected.
China anticipates that Britain, a global comprehensive strategic partner for the 21st century, will play a pivotal role as a "natural partner" in advancing the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, said Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK.
Asians are known the world over as being "good at math". This is a stereotype perpetuated by popular culture in the West.
Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.
China welcomes the planned visit of United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis in the first half of 2018, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
China has been busy drafting a market-oriented reform package that will go over and above what the rest of the world expects, a senior Chinese official said at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Government at all levels should work resolutely to curb severe workplace accidents and plug loopholes in workplace safety in key industries to better protect people's lives and help produce a higher quality economy in 2018, Premier Li Keqiang said.
President Xi Jinping's advocacy of a community with a shared future for mankind, an open economy, globalization and fighting protectionism and isolationism has been widely welcomed and China has been transforming the proposals into action, said a senior Chinese official attending the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
China will not politicize trade issues, even when its foreign trade potentially enters an era of overall deficits, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday.
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