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Senior diplomat Wang Yi said on Thursday that China has encouraged and supported all efforts  conducive  to a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis and has actively promoted the de-escalation of the situation, as he wrapped up a weeklong Eurasian tour. 外交部王毅在2月23日在结束了为期一周的欧亚之行之际表示，中国鼓励和支持一切有利于和平解决乌克兰危机的努力，积极推动局势缓和。 The...

An official of Tahe county, Heilongjiang province, drew the attention of Chinese netizens recently when a short video starring her began circulating  the internet. 近日，黑龙江省塔河县一名官员的短视频火爆网络，引起了中国网民的关注。 To promote the tourism industry of her hometown, Du Bo, the 44-year-old director of the culture and tourism bureau, shot videos of herself walking outside in the...

The China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership "never targets any third party" and is not subject to a third party's disturbance  or coercion, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said when meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. 2月22日，外交部王毅在会见俄罗斯总统普京时表示，中俄新时代全面战略协作伙伴关系从不针对第三方，也不受第三方干扰，更不接受第三方的胁迫。 Wang, dire...

A multi-institutional team of researchers conducted the first study to evaluate how the duration  of nightly sleep early in the semester affects first year college students end-of-semester grade point average (GPA). Using Fitbit sleep trackers, they found that students on average sleep 6.5 hours a night, but negative outcomes accumulate when students received less than six hours of sleep a ni...

The second plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee will be held in Beijing from Sunday to Tuesday, according to a decision made on Tuesday at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting, which discussed a work report of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Com...

Billionaire Elon Musk has found Twitter's "new CEO" and said that he is "so much better than that other guy". Musk introduced his pet dog Floki to the world. 亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克找到了推特的 “新首席执行官（CEO）” ，并表示他“比那个人强太多了”。他向世界介绍了他的宠物狗Floki。 The photo shared by Musk shows his Shiba Inu dog seated on the CEO's chair. The pet dog is seen wearing a Twitter-br...

US President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Monday to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart , Volodymyr Zelensky, a striking gesture of solidarity  coming days away from the one-year anniversary of the conflict with Russia. 2月20日，美国总统拜登未经宣布访问基辅，与乌克兰总统沃洛基米尔·泽连斯基会面，这一声援姿态引人注目，因为几天后就是乌克兰与俄罗斯冲突一周年。 Speaking alongside...

China has secured a major, decisive victory in fighting COVID-19, creating a miracle in the history of human civilization of a country with a vast population successfully prevailing over a pandemic, according to a key meeting of the Communist Party of China on Thursday. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political...

The unofficial nature of the latest meeting between Chinese and United States senior diplomats points to the serious damage that Washington has brought to its ties with Beijing and the dire need to repair the great shortage of mutual trust, observers said. 观察人士说，中美高级外交官最近一次会晤的非正式性质表明，华盛顿对中美关系造成了严重损害，迫切需要修复严重缺乏互信的问题。 They made the observat...

Giant female panda, Xiang Xiang, currently at the Ueno Zoo in Japan, will return to China on February 21, according to Japan's Kyodo News Agency. 日本东京上野动物园的雌性大熊猫香香要回家了，归期定在了2月21日。 Visits only be allowed through a pre-selected lottery . Up to 2,600 visitors will be able to see the 5-year-old each day until Feb 19, according to Kyodo News. 自2023年1月21日起，参观香香采...

Many men and women across China are marrying later in life, prompting provincial governments to adopt measures to reverse the trend, according to data released by civil affairs departments on Monday. 2月13日，据民政部门发布的数据显示，中国各地结婚年龄推迟，省政府积极采取措施扭转这一趋势。 In Jiangsu, a province with a population of over 85 million, a total of 412,286 couples were married in 2022,...

China will launch two crews to work on its Tiangong space station this year, according to the China Manned Space Agency. 据中国载人航天局表示，两组航天员将于2023年前往天宫空间站. The agency published schedules for the Shenzhou XVI and XVII mission crews on Wednesday, saying that the Shenzhou XVI team will leave for the Tiangong station in May while their counterparts in the Shenzhou XVII mission w...

英语新闻丨重庆今年将为18万名初二女生免费接种HPV疫苗 Chongqing will offer free vaccinations against human papillomavirus to 180,000 female second-year junior high school students this year, as more Chinese cities join efforts to combat cervical  cancer. 中国城市逐步加入了防治宫颈癌的行列，重庆今年将为18万名初二女生免费接种人乳头瘤病毒疫苗。 China has backed the global strategy of accelerating...

The central authorities on Monday unveiled the closely watched "No 1 central document" for this year, which pledged to advance the national strategy of rural vitalization and accelerate modernization in rural regions, according to Xinhua News Agency. As the first policy statement released each year by the central authorities, the document — issued by the Communist Party of China Central Committee...

The chatbot ChatGPT, developed by American company OpenAI, has taken the world by storm in the past few months. This new research, however, has not been welcomed in education as expected. Faced with the threat of ChatGPT, the education community in many countries began to take measures. 美国OpenAI公司研发的聊天机器人ChatGPT，在过去的几个月席卷全球。然而，这项新研究并没有在教育领域受到预想中的欢迎...

 China said on Monday that high-altitude balloons from the United States had flown over its airspace more than 10 times since the beginning of last year without permission from Chinese authorities. 2月13日，中国当局表示，去年以来，美方高空气球10余次非法飞越中国领空。 "It is not an uncommon thing for US balloons to illegally enter other countries' airspace," Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wen...

In the early morning of Feb 6, Li Nan, a tour guide from China Tourism Group, was busy helping tourists check in their baggage at Beijing Capital International Airport for a long-awaited trip to Singapore. 2月6日凌晨，中国旅游集团的导游李楠在北京首都国际机场忙着帮游客办理行李托运，准备开始期待已久的新加坡之旅。 The 15 travelers made up the first Singapore-bound tour group departing from Beijing si...

Wu Yibing became the first Chinese mainland player to lift an ATP Tour trophy after winning the Dallas Open title on Sunday. 2月12日，吴易昺在赢得达拉斯公开赛冠军后，成为中国大陆首位举起ATP巡回赛奖杯的选手。 The 23-year-old endured 44 aces from host player John Isner and saved four championship points to achieve a history-making 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (12) victory in two hours and 59 minutes. 这位2...

The Shenzhou XV mission crew , who are now inside the Tiangong space station, are scheduled to carry out their first spacewalk soon, according to the China Manned Space Agency. 据中国载人航天工程办公室消息，神舟十五号航天员乘组将于近日择机执行第一次出舱活动。 The agency said in a brief news release on Wednesday afternoon the Shenzhou XV astronauts — mission commander Major General Fei Junlong, Sen...

The mobilization  of the civilian teams came as China increased its aid to quake-devastated Turkiye and neighboring Syria. The death toll in the two nations had reached more than 11,000 as of Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. 民间救援队伍的动员正值中国增加对地震灾区土耳其和邻国叙利亚的援助之际。据美联社报道，截至周三，这两个国家的死亡人数已超过1.1万人。 A magnitude-7.8 earthq...

According totheXinhua News Agency, China's National Meteorological Center forecast that Tuesday through Thursday,a wide range of rain and snow are expected to affect areas in central and eastern Chinafrom west to east. Heavy snow andlocalsnowstorms brought by the cold wave will mainly affect  Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, while parts of Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi,...

Rescuers in Turkiye and Syria searched through the frigid night into Tuesday, hoping to pull more survivors from the rubble  after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 4,000 people and toppled  thousands of buildings across a wide region. 土耳其和叙利亚的救援人员在寒冷的夜晚一直搜索到2月7日，希望从废墟中救出更多幸存者。此前，一场7.8级地震成了4000多人死亡，数千栋建筑倒塌。 Authorit...

China's rise as the largest producer and consumer of gold worldwide was highlighted by statistics in the Gold Demand Trends report by the World Gold Council, ThePaper reported on Wednesday. 据澎湃新闻2月1日报道，1月31日，世界黄金协会发布的《全球黄金需求趋势报告》显示，中国已成为全球最大的黄金生产国和消费国。 In 2022, it was estimated that China accounted for 10 percent of the world's total gold pr...

The Chinese mainland fully resumed  normal travel with the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions (SARs) starting Monday, in what is expected to be a strong boost for the two regions' economic development. 2月1日起，中国大陆开始全面恢复与港澳特别行政区的正常通行，将有力推动两个地区的经济发展。 Starting Monday, the Lo Wu Control Point, the Lok Ma Chau/Huanggang Control Point and th...