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Nineteen-year-old Yang Min has complicated feelings about the upcoming national college entrance exam, or gaokao. 十九岁的杨敏（音译）对即将到来的高考怀抱着复杂的心情。 She is nervous, anxious and excited, but also hopes the exam can take her from a small city in Shanxi province to her dream university, China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, and help fulfill her ambition of becoming a d...

India's deadly rail accident leaves 275 killed and over 1,170 injured 印度致命的列车脱轨相撞事故造成275人死亡，1170多人受伤 Mangled train carriages were on top of one another, a few coaches had plunged into a nearby water body and an engine sat atop a freight car. 残缺不全的火车车厢彼此重叠，几节车厢坠入附近水域，一节火车头倒在货运车厢的顶上。 Amid all this, a heap of dead bodies covered in white...

China will continue to push for greater market access for foreign investors as part of its ongoing efforts to expand high-level opening-up and build a unified national market, the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday. 6月5日，商务部表示，为了推动高水平的对外开放，建设全国统一大市场，中国将持续放宽外资市场准入。 Analysts said this signals the country's resolve to build a fully open market, deepen ma...

Collaboration and dialogue are needed to maintain peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, and major powers need to act responsibly, the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore was told this weekend. Speakers at the 20th Asia Security Summit held from Friday to Sunday looked at many security issues and said they hoped that stakeholders such as ASEAN, Australia, China, India, Japan, Russia and the...

The Shenzhou XV crew returned to Earth on Sunday morning after a six-month mission that witnessed the completion of the Tiangong space station. 在完成为期六个月的天宫空间站任务后，神舟十五号航天员乘组于6月4日上午返回地球。 A reentry capsule carrying the three astronauts — mission commander Major General Fei Junlong, Senior Colonel Deng Qingming and Senior Colonel Zhang Lu — touched down at the Don...

The vision put forward on Friday by President Xi Jinping to build a modern Chinese civilization will empower the nation on its own pathway to modernization and build up national unity in the face of various risks and challenges, according to analysts. During a symposium with officials and experts in Beijing, Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and ch...

The Joe Biden administration is not assuming any breakthrough will happen in Sino-US trade relations as deputy US Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi said last week, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk's visit to China on Tuesday shows US entrepreneurs do not agree with its trade policy. 不同于美国副贸易代表萨拉·比安奇上周所言，拜登政府并没有假设中美贸易关系会取得突破，但特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克5月30日对中...

Greater international cooperation is needed to explore technological frontiers such as computer-brain interface technologies and artificial intelligence, which are widely seen as key future drivers of global economic growth, officials and experts said. 官员和专家表示，需要加强国际合作来探索脑机接口技术和人工智能等技术前沿，这些技术被广泛视为未来全球经济增长的主要驱动力。 Highlighting that decoupli...

Since the start of the industrial revolution, there have been threats that new machines – from mechanized looms to microchips – would usurp human jobs. For the most part, the humans have prevailed. Now, say some experts, with AI ubiquity on the horizon, the threat’s being realized: the robots really are coming for some jobs. 自从工业革命以来，人类就开始面临饭碗被新机器抢走的威胁，从机械化织布机到...

Brain-computer interface technology is becoming more than a hypothetical phenomenon in China with some momentum gained in terms of research and development as well as applications, especially amid the country's latest call to support the cutting-edge sector, said government officials and industry experts during the Zhongguancun Forum that ended on Tuesday. They made the comments after Zhao Zhiguo,...

Chinese courts should educate divorcing parents to ensure their underage children can obtain care and support from their families, according to a new guideline. The 24-article guideline on family education was issued by the Supreme People's Court, China's top court, and the All-China Women's Federation on Tuesday, aiming to offer stronger protection for children by urging their parents or guardian...

Traditionally, China's astronauts are selected from among fighter plane pilots with ample flying experience, as they can control the machinery and have the training to stay calm should an emergency arise in space. 中国的航天员通常是从具有丰富飞行经验的战斗机飞行员中挑选出来的，因为他们可以驾驶航天器，并且接受过冷静应对太空中紧急情况的训练。 Yet among the three astronauts aboard Shenzhou XVI, which...

President Xi Jinping has urged greater efforts to accelerate the modernization of China's national security system and capacity in order to better safeguard the country's development amid complicated and challenging circumstances. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks on Tuesday while pr...

The Fujian High People's Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence handed down to Wu Xieyu, a former Peking University student who killed his mother, after it heard the appealing case. 5月30日，福建省高级人民法院二审原北大学生吴谢宇弑母案，维持死刑原判。 The 28-year-old Wu was given the death penalty by the Intermediate People's Court in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian, in August 2021 for the crimes of...

China plans to send astronauts to the moon before 2030, a space official said on Monday. 5月29日，中国载人航天工程办公室副主任林西强表示，中国计划在2030年前实现中国人首次登陆月球。 Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency, said at a news conference at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China that the country's space authorities have launched the manned lunar p...

China on Tuesday launched the Shenzhou XVI manned spaceship, sending three astronauts to its space station combination for a five-month mission. 5月30日，中国成功发射神舟十六号载人飞船，将三名航天员送往空间站，执行为期五个月的任务。 The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China. 搭载神舟十六号载人飞船的长征二号F遥十六运...

Giant panda Ya Ya returned to its home in Beijing Zoo early on Monday after spending 20 years in the United States. On April 27, giant panda Ya Ya arrived in Shanghai from the Memphis Zoo of Tennessee. The panda was then quarantined before moving to Beijing. The Beijing Zoo has prepared a special feeding place for giant panda Ya Ya as well as tailor-made feeding measures, care, medical support and...

The Shenzhou XVI spacecraft will set out on Tuesday morning to transport three Chinese astronauts to the Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency. 据中国载人航天工程办公室消息，神舟十六号载人飞船将于5月30日上午出发，将三名中国航天员送往天宫空间站。 It will be the debut flight for China's third generation of astronauts and will become the first time for any Chinese civilia...

Chinese judicial authorities have pledged to maintain zero tolerance for sex crimes against children, revealing that those making use of the internet to rape or molest juveniles will face harsher punishment. The Supreme People's Court, China's top court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the country's top procuratorate, jointly issued a judicial interpretation on Thursday, specifying a numbe...

China's new ambassador arrives in US 英语新闻｜中国新任驻美大使谢锋抵美履新 Xie Feng, the new Chinese ambassador to the United States, arrived in New York on Tuesday, promising to safeguard the interests of China and enhance bilateral exchange. 5月23日，中国新任驻美大使谢锋抵达纽约，他承诺捍卫中国利益，加强中美双边交流。 "As a representative of the Chinese people, I have come here to safeguard the...

As the Belt and Road Initiative drives an economically vibrant Eurasian region while delivering increasing benefits to the world, President Xi Jinping has urged stronger synergy between the initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union to boost Asia-Europe cooperation. While addressing the opening ceremony of the plenary session of the second Eurasian Economic Forum of the Eurasian Economic Union via...

Hong Kong officials and social leaders have condemned the disrespectful behavior of some Cathay Pacific crew members toward non-English speaking passengers, and said they had tarnished the city's reputation as an international aviation hub, stressing that such incidents must not occur again. In a viral online post, a passenger who is fluent in Mandarin, English and Cantonese detailed how three fli...

President Xi Jinping reiterated on Wednesday China's readiness to work with Russia to support each other on issues concerning core interests, and he called for enhancing all-around bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Xi made the remarks during a meeting in Beijing with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who made an official visit to China on Tuesday and Wednesday at the invitat...

Before the ongoing 76th World Health Assembly opened in Geneva on Monday, about 140 member states expressed their objection to Taiwan joining the WHA, of which about 100 issued open statements or sent letters of opposition to the director-general of the World Health Organization. Supported by the United States and some other Western countries, the Democratic Progressive Party authorities in Taipei...

Cathay Pacific Airways, the largest airline in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, apologized on Monday evening after an online post accused flight attendants from the airline of discrimination against non-English speaking passengers, Beijing Daily reported. 近日，有网友在社交平台发帖称，香港最大的航空公司国泰航空中有空乘人员歧视非英语旅客。据《北京日报》报道，5月22晚，国泰航空道歉。 The...