China has made inspiring progress in biodiversity conservation and become a leader on global biodiversity issue, managing to strike a balance between economic development and biodiversity conservation, a senior Thai official said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin calls for closer global cooperation on conserving biodiversity at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

A new French study has dismissed a cave in Mojiang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province as an origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

China's total imports and exports expanded 22.7 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2021, official data showed Wednesday. Enditem

According to the World Meteorological Organization and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, climate change and increasingly extreme weather events have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years, disproportionately impacting poorer countries.

The sunshine in October is still burning in a railing base on the northern outskirts of Lao capital Vientiane, but what Sida Phengphongsawanh, a trainee for China-Laos railway train driver, cares, is the jingle of the train maintenance which sounds like music.

"Without China, the world would be in recession," said Antonio dos Santos Queiros, a researcher at the University of Lisbon, in a recent article in the Portuguese newspaper Publico.

The government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Monday refuted the lies fabricated by the United States and some other Western countries about human rights in the region with evidence and facts.

A key UN conference kicked off Monday in southwest China's Kunming to discuss a blueprint for biodiversity conservation over the next decade.

Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has applauded China's efforts to protect biodiversity, and expressed great expectations for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which began on Monday in Kunming, China.

As China and the United States have started to improve bilateral economic and trade relationship, the top two economies should conduct more trade consultations with a more rational and candid approach, according to experts and business leaders.

A railway port on the China-Russia border has boosted coal imports to meet the rising demand from power producers and heating suppliers in north China.

John Lee, chief secretary for administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, said Sunday he will ensure solid implementation of the 2021 policy address by HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam.

China has issued an outline to promote standardized development at the national level in its pursuit of high-quality development and modernization.

China published its first white paper on biodiversity conservation on Friday to share the nation's achievements and experience with the globe.

Trade groups and experts have given a cautious welcome to the Biden administration's new China trade policy, which includes "recoupling" with the world's second-largest economy instead of "decoupling", but they said it was "distressing" that US tariffs on Chinese goods would remain.

China will take further steps to ensure electricity and coal supply this winter and next spring, to ensure people's basic living needs and keep economic performance stable, the State Council's Executive Meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Friday.

The U.S. should clarify an incident involving a U.S. nuclear submarine, including the exact location of the incident, the intention of the U.S. navigation, details of the incident, what the submarine collided with, whether it caused nuclear leakage, and whether it damaged the local marine environment, said a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson.

A scientific expedition team with the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently discovered three critically endangered species in the suburb of Mengzi city, South Yunnan’s Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture.

As many Americans cannot visit China in person now during the COVID-19 pandemic, Qin suggested they make good use of internet resources, take a virtual tour of China's places of interest like the Forbidden City, try some live streaming shopping and improve their Chinese language skills with interactive learning apps.