China urges US to destroy chemical weapons stockpile as promised
中国要求美国信守承诺，销毁生化武器储备
2023-05-30
| A Chinese defense spokesperson on Monday urged the United States to fulfill its commitments and adhere to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) by taking concrete actions.
Tan Kefei, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, made the remarks during a press conference while addressing the US claim of destroying its chemical weapons stockpile by autumn this year. Tan said that since the CWC came into effect 26 years ago, over 99 percent of the world's chemical weapons stockpiles have been eliminated. Seven out of the eight countries that declared chemical weapons stockpiles have completed the destruction of their chemical weapons. As stipulated by the Convention, the destruction of stockpiled chemical weapons should be completed within 10 years of its enactment in 1997. Tan also said the destruction process of Japan's abandoned chemical weapons in China is severely lagging behind, and the destruction plan has been overdue many times. China urges Japan to enhance its sense of urgency and step up actions to ensure these abandoned chemical weapons' early destruction in a clean and thorough manner, Tan said. |
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China launches Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship for 5-month intensive tasks in space station
中国成功发射神舟十六载人飞船，执行为期5个月的空间站任务
2023-05-30
| China on Tuesday launched the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship, sending three astronauts to its space station combination for a five-month mission.
The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The Shenzhou-16 astronauts will conduct large-scale in-orbit tests and experiments in various fields as planned. They are expected to make high-level scientific achievements in the study of novel quantum phenomena, high-precision space time-frequency systems, the verification of general relativity, and the origin of life. The crew, consisting of Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, will witness the dockings of the Tianzhou-5 cargo craft and the Shenzhou-17 manned spaceship, as well as the departures of the Shenzhou-15 manned spaceship and Tianzhou-5. |
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大熊猫丫丫返回北京动物园
2023-05-29
| Female giant panda Ya Ya returned to the Beijing Zoo at 12:43 am (Beijing Time) on Monday after being quarantined in Shanghai, according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
Ya Ya's health is now in stable condition, said the administration. Ya Ya arrived in Shanghai from the United States on April 27. |
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中国将在2030年首次人登月
2023-05-29
| China plans to realize manned lunar landing by 2030, announced the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) at a press conference Monday.
Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the CMSA, said at the conference that China has recently initiated the lunar landing phase of its manned lunar exploration program. The overall goal is to achieve China's first manned landing on the moon by 2030 and carry out lunar scientific exploration and related technological experiments, he added. According to Lin, the goal also includes mastering the key technologies such as Earth-moon manned roundtrip, lunar surface short-term stay, human-robot joint exploration, accomplishing multiple tasks of landing, roving, sampling, researching and returning, and forming an independent capability of manned lunar exploration. |
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Beijing expresses key concerns on US China policies on economy, trade
北京表示高度关注美国对中国的经济贸易政策
2023-05-26
| The Chinese side has expressed key concerns on the US China policies on economy and trade, and semiconductors, as well as issues concerning export control and outbound investments review during Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao's talks with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Thursday.
During their meeting on the sidelines of the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting in the United States from Thursday to Friday, the two sides had candid, professional and constructive exchanges on bilateral economic and trade ties as well as related issues of common concern. They agreed to set up communication channels to maintain and strengthen exchanges on specific economic and trade concerns and issues concerning cooperation. |
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Xi addresses opening ceremony of plenary session of second Eurasian Economic Forum
习近平出席欧亚经济联盟第二届欧亚经济论坛全会开幕式并致辞
2023-05-25
| Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the plenary session of the second Eurasian Economic Forum of the Eurasian Economic Union via video link upon invitation and delivered a speech on Wednesday.
Noting that the world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, Xi said the historical trend toward multipolarity and economic globalization is irresistible, adding that it is the broad consensus of the international community to uphold genuine multilateralism and promote coordinated development across regions. Xi said Eurasia is the region with the largest population, the largest number of countries and the most diverse civilizations in the world. In the turbulent and changing world, how to proceed with Asia-Europe cooperation not only concerns the well-being of the people in the region, but also has a profound impact on the development of the world, he said. Xi said he had put forward the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, calling on all countries to work together to build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security and common prosperity and to build a community with a shared future for humanity. Noting this year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi said the ultimate goal of this initiative is to explore new ways for countries from near and far to achieve common development and to open up a "path of happiness" that benefits the whole world. As a member of the Eurasian family, China's development cannot be achieved without the Eurasian region, and it also benefits the region, Xi noted. Xi said it is China's sincere hope that the synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union will be deepened, and all countries will work together with unity and dedication to open up new prospects for Asia-Europe cooperation. Noting that China will host the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in the second half of this year, Xi said China is ready to work with the countries that took part in the Belt and Road Initiative and the member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union to continue to hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit, share opportunities, overcome difficulties, create a better future, and work together to write a new chapter in the progress of civilization in a multipolar world. The second Eurasian Economic Forum of the Eurasian Economic Union was held online and offline in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday, with the theme of Eurasian integration in a multipolar world. |
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第一季度超过五百万人自主创业
2023-05-23
| A total of 5.03 million self-employed businesses were newly set up in China in the first quarter of 2023, up 14.3 percent year on year, China's top market regulator said Monday.
As of the end of the first quarter, the country's registered self-employed businesses had reached 116 million, accounting for two-thirds of China's total business entities, according to the State Administration for Market Regulation. New self-employed businesses in the cultural, sports and entertainment sectors registered the fastest year-on-year growth of 39 percent in the first quarter, the regulator said. The administration will take effective measures to promote the high-quality development of the businesses, it said. |
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Greek conservatives lead general elections: first official results
官方第一结果：希腊保守党赢得大选
2023-05-22
| Greek ruling conservative New Democracy (ND) party led in Sunday's general elections with 41.1 percent of the votes, the first official results announced by the Interior Ministry showed.
Meanwhile, the main opposition party, the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, won 20 percent of the votes, it added. Greeks went to the polls on Sunday to elect their representatives in the next 300-member parliament. According to the estimates, ND will secure 145 seats, falling short of an outright majority, and SYRIZA 71 seats. With 30.3 percent of the votes counted, five parties that passed the three percent threshold will enter the new parliament, said the Interior Ministry. The socialists PASOK-KINAL (Panhellenic Socialist Movement-Movement for Change) will receive 12.7 percent of the votes, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 6.7 percent, and the right-wing Elliniki Lysi (Greek Solution) 4.5 percent, according to the estimates. The final results are expected to be announced on Monday. After that, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will give a mandate to the leader of the biggest party to form a new government. Under the constitution, leaders of the top three parties have three days each to form a coalition. If all efforts fail, a caretaker government will lead Greece to a second ballot by early July. In the second ballot, a revised electoral system which provides a bonus of up to 50 extra seats for the winning party, will be used, facilitating the formation of a single-party government. In the previous general elections in July 2019, ND had won 39.8 percent of the vote with 158 seats in the parliament, and SYRIZA 31.5 percent of the votes with 86 seats. |
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福州台湾直通航班将恢复
2023-05-19
| Direct flights between Taiwan and Fuzhou will resume on May 22 after being suspended for over three years due to the pandemic, according to the Fuzhou municipal government on Thursday.
Flights between Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, and Taipei, will restart on May 22, while flights between Fuzhou and Kaohsiung will resume on June 2. Since direct air routes across the Taiwan Strait started in 2008, a total of 31,000 flights have been operated between Taiwan and Fuzhou, with more than 3.41 million passenger trips made. The route was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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3 things matter in developing China-Australia relations: Chinese ambassador
中国大使：关系中澳关系发展的三点
2023-05-19
| China stands ready to work with Australia to act on their leaders' common understandings of keeping the bilateral relationship on the right track and developing the relationship from a strategic, long-term perspective for its sustained, sound and steady development, Chinese ambassador has said.
While addressing a media briefing held by the Chinese Embassy in Australia on Thursday, Chinese Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian said to achieve these goals, three things matter. "First, politically, we should practice mutual respect," he said. "Building China-Australia relations of the new age requires us to respect each other's social systems and development paths, respect each other's core interests and major concerns, and respect each other's right to development." Second, economically, the two countries should pursue mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, he said. "Practical cooperation between our two countries has brought high-quality goods and services to China and promoted the rapid growth of the Australian economy in return," Xiao said. Third, the two countries should properly handle conflicts and differences, said the Chinese ambassador. "It is normal for countries to have differences on some issues, while we could still work with each other, view and handle our differences in a proper manner," he said. "China and Australia have far more common interests than differences, which means, for the benefit of the two countries and our people, we should continue to carry out practical cooperation in all fields and at all levels, expand consensus and narrow differences through constructive dialogue so as to constantly improve, maintain and develop bilateral relations and add new substance to the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Australia." Xiao said that China is willing to advance cooperation with Australia in both traditional fields such as energy, trade and agriculture as well as emerging fields including climate change, clean energy, green economy and green infrastructure, etc. Xiao also briefed the updates on a Chinese deep-sea fishing vessel that capsized in the central Indian Ocean on Tuesday. He thanked the Australian side for their cooperation and humanitarian spirit in the search and rescue work, and expressed hope that the relevant departments will send more rescue forces. |
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