• Cooked-to-order service a hit at Zhejiang market
    2024-11-13

    Chef Zhou Kaikai center and his colleagues prepare ingredients bought by customers and cook for them at the Runyu Food Processing Workshop in Yiwu, Zhejiang province. [Photo provided to China Daily] Some small markets in Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Shenzhen in Guangdong province and Yiwu...

  • New museum highlights timekeeping Taosi culture
    2024-11-13

    A visitor looks at an exhibit in the Taosi Site Museum in Linfen in Shanxi province, Nov 12, 2024. [PhotoXinhua] As early as around 4,000 years ago, residents in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, where the Taosi culture originated, had already developed a comprehensive system to observe...

  • Belgian zoo visitors bid fond farewell to panda trio
    2024-11-12

    Giant pandas Bao Di and Bao Mei make their final public appearance at Pairi Daiza on Sunday, before starting a monthlong quarantine to facilitate their journey to China on Dec 10. [PhotoXinhua] Sunday was a day of mixed feelings at Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, southern Belgium. While visito...

  • Researchers find quicker way to breed grapes
    2024-11-08

    [PhotoVCG] Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences have utilized artificial intelligence to shorten the breeding cycle of grapes, increasing the breeding efficiency of a commercially important crop known for its lengthy growth process. The findings of this research were...

  • Nation braces for big boom in cold-weather sports
    2024-11-07

    China's northernmost ski resort, the Arctic Ski Resort in Mohe, Heilongjiang province, welcomes its first visitors on Nov 1, 2024. [Photo by Shao TianliFor chinadaily.com.cn] More than two years after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics concluded, the legacy of the Games lives on, providing a bo...

  • Notable strides made in higher education
    2024-11-06

    A view of Tsinghua University. [PhotoVCG] In recent years, China has made remarkable strides in the development of its higher education system, particularly through the initiative of building world-class universities and disciplines with Chinese characteristics, Education Minister Huai Jinp...

  • China's growth vital for global development
    2024-11-05

    Over the past more than four decades China has achieved an average GDP growth rate of 8.9 percent, much higher than the global average of 3.0 percent, contributing 24.8 percent to global economic growth. In the next five to 10 years, China will promote mutually beneficial cooperation and develop...

  • Lives of ethnic groups change for the better
    2024-11-04

    A farmer picks tea leaves at an old tea forest area of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, Southwest China's Yunnan province, April 19, 2023. [PhotoXinhua] Yu Xuan, a resident of Wengji village atop Jingmai Mountain in Yunnan province, was busy throughout the weeklong National Day holiday in October, ...

  • Visitors allowed at Beijing's Olympic Park around the clock
    2024-10-31

    Cycling enthusiasts ride along the "rainbow" cycling route in the Olympic Park in Beijing on Sunday. [Photo by Cheng GongFor China Daily] Beijing's Olympic Park will function around the clock, becoming an always-open public space in the heart of the capital. The fences were removed, visiti...

  • New air routes set to open for start of winter-spring season
    2024-10-28

    Passengers are seen at the Beijing Daxing International Airport on Oct 24, 2024. [Photo provided to China Daily] China's civil aviation industry is preparing for a busy winter-spring season — running from Oct 29 to March 29 — with increased international flights expected. According to the Ci...

  • Tianlai's entry can draw more 'pathfinders'
    2024-10-25

    This undated file photo shows an array of China's Tianlai Experiment, a project aimed to test key technologies for detecting dark energy, in the Kazak autonomous county of Barkol in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [PhotoNational Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Acade...

  • Encountering Sanxingdui civilization in NYC
    2024-10-21

    The exhibitionSanxingdui Encounter: A 12K Micro-viewing of National Treasuresopens on Saturday at the Memor Museum in New York, displaying 1:1 replicas from the Sanxingdui Museum collection in Sichuan province, Southwest China. The exhibition will last until Jan 19. Mingmei Li China Daily Sp...

  • Tesla yet to receive regulatory green light for FSD in China
    2024-10-18

    This aerial photo taken on Aug 20, 2022 shows the Tesla Gigafactory in the Lingang new area of the China Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone in East China's Shanghai Multiple sources told China Daily that Tesla Inc has yet to receive regulatory approval from Chinese authorities to launch its full self...

  • Peking Opera with a difference comes to London
    2024-10-17

    A groundbreaking production fusing traditional Chinese opera with Western classical music will be staged in London on Thursday, when a performance inspired by the life of Cai Lun, the man credited with the invention of paper, takes place at Jerwood Hall in London. The performance, calledEin Helde...

  • Emerging market buyers embrace Canton Fair
    2024-10-16

    Overseas buyers look at NEVs on show at the 136th session of the China Import and Export Fair in Guangzhou. Buyers from emerging markets are steadily taking the lead at the 136th session of the China Import and Export Fair, or the Canton Fair, replacing those from Europe and North America as th...