Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

File photo shows an exterior view of the People's Bank of China in Beijing. [Photo/Xinhua] The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, held in July ...

China deepened its push to further open up the economy, eliminating restrictions on the manufacturing sector and expanding opportunities for foreign investment in the health sector in an effort to ...

China has for years had one of the lowest retirement ages among major economies. Men started life’s next chapter at age 60, while women did so as early as 50. China’s next generation will have ...

In northwest China, a woman named Li gave birth to twins from both of her uteruses, an extremely rare condition affecting just 0.3 percent of women globally. The healthy boy and girl were ...

Wind turbine blades at a port in Yantai, Shandong province, in August. [Photo/Xinhua] Over the past decade, China has made remarkable contributions to global green transformation, thanks to its ...

Amid state-media silence and Chinese Foreign Ministry insistence that two fatal anti-Japanese attacks in Shenzhen and Suzhou were “isolated incidents” that could happen in any country ...

HONG KONG, Sept 6 (Reuters) - China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its once strict one-child ...

HONG KONG, Sept 24 (Reuters) - China's move to raise retirement ages is a starting point to plug gaping pension deficits and bolster a shrinking workforce but more pain lies ahead as the economy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A nondescript serviced office on the 24th floor of an anonymous block in Singapore might seem a curiously ...

The announcement came at a routine press briefing on September 5th. Mao Ning, a foreign-ministry spokesperson, said China was grateful for the “desire and love” of the foreign families who ...

LAST YEAR engineers at China’s Shidaowan nuclear power plant turned off the pumps pushing coolant around the reactor core. Then they waited. At a typical power plant, this would have been dangerous.