The $33 billion Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train will start commercial operations today.
China's new leader Xi Jinping was on Wednesday elected as the member of the nation's legislature, the National People's Congress, which was all set to choose him as the president early next month.
By Thursday, 830 confirmed cases of pneumonia, caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), had been reported in 29 provincial-level regions in the country.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday visited an exhibition of the Communist Party, appearing in public for the first time after his return from the SCO summit on September 16, which sparked rumours about his absence from the limelight ahead of next month's key Congress of the ruling party.
'The first time that China alleged the Dalai Lama was 'anti-national' and 'unpatriotic' was after he affirmed that Arunachal Pradesh and Tawang are part of India,' points out former RA&W official Jayadeva Ranade.
While the official media is silent on the issue, Chinese blogs and websites are much kinder to the banned Maoist rebels, writes China expert D S Rajan.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is at the helm of managing the country's economy for a decade, said that he will be stepping down this year, setting in motion the once-in-a-decade sweeping leadership change in the Communist country.
The pledge, reported by state media, was the first public comment by top leaders on the violence that has left 156 people dead in the city of Urumqi.
China on Friday officially launched the world's first dual-mode mobile phones, which function in both GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) networks.
Against the backdrop of a series of self-immolations in Tibetan-inhabited areas, China on Friday accused the Dalai Lama of plotting the 'murders' to achieve 'ulterior' political goals.
We have seen great strides in all-around cooperation, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said.
China is India's longtime "strategic challenge" but not a "threat", a group of strategic and defence experts said today.
'Mahatma Gandhi's principle of non-violence was all-encompassing -- human against human, human against animal and more importantly human against nature.'
China on Saturday launched a criminal investigation into disgraced Communist Party leader Bo Xilai's alleged offences, a day after he was stripped of his legal immunity and expelled from the country's Parliament.
China is "working hard" to improve ties between India and close-ally Pakistan, despite facing heavy criticism from within and its expression of happiness over President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to India is "no hollow diplomatic gesture", a state-run daily said on Tuesday.
Hu, 60, succeeds Jiang Zemin, 76, who held two consecutive five-year terms as Chinese president.
The outgoing leadership of the ruling Communist Party held its last meeting in Beijing on Thursday ahead of the November 8 Congress that will select a new set of leaders, amid allegations of amassing wealth by some leaders and a scandal related to disgraced party leader, Bo Xilai.
If the prime minister can say all kinds of things against India, why is it a crime if Rahul Gandhi does so, Kharge said.
'Information about the Dalai Lama's heath is normally not shared with the public. Its release on this occasion implicitly underscores the message that the window of opportunity for Beijing to recommence the dialogue with the Dalai Lama -- an advocate of non-violence -- to resolve the contentious Tibetan issue is limited.' says Jayadeva Ranade.
China on Monday secretly held the trial of a top police official who had sneaked into United States consulate seeking refuge and sparking off the country's biggest political scandal ahead of much awaited political transition.
Speculations have been mounting over the whereabouts of China's next leader Xi Jinping, who has not been seen for over a week.Sources said Jinping, who is expected to be announced as the new leader of the Communist Party in the coming weeks, has suffered a mild heart attack.
India, Taiwan and countries with large numbers of Tibetans, Uyghurs and overseas Chinese will be prominent among those that witness elevated United Front activity, notes Jayadeva Ranade, the distinguished China expert and retired RAW officer.
China, only the third country to independently send a person into space in 2003, after the US and Russia, plans to launch its next manned space mission in June next year, state media reported today.
Evoking late strongman Mao Zedong's long forgotten thoughts, China's ruling Communist Party of China chief Xi Jinping has promised 'great renewal' of the nation to pursue the dream of becoming a major global power.
The 2,200-member Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference comprising, perhaps for the first time with majority of non-ruling Communist Party members, began its annual session kicking off China's yearly political event during which its legislators meet.
The legacy of China's Great Wall, built in the 5th century to prevent intrusions from nomads, has become an inspiration for the country's new rich, who now are building similar structures around their wealthy enclaves to ensure safety and to prevent thefts.
China has ordered all Buddhist monasteries in Tibet to display China's national flag as part of its efforts to maintain social stability in the restive Himalayan province, which experienced self-immolation protests against the Communist party rule.
He said that US intelligence shows that Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed his nation's military to 'be ready by 2027' to invade Taiwan.
'We should not allow ourselves to be surprised in any manner in future on the border.'
Disgraced former Communist Party leader Bo Xilai was Thursday charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power by prosecutors in China's eastern Shandong Province.
A Congressional advisory panel has urged the Obama administration to adopt tougher approach towards China given the "aggressive" and "assertive" nature of Beijing's economic and military power in recent years.
China is close to have one million millionaires with rapid expansion of the new rich, cashing on the booming private business in the Communist country.
China is trying to improve frayed relations with neighbours to pre-empt efforts by the US to intervene, says strategic expert B Raman.
No confidence motions have been moved in the Lok Sabha 27 times in the past, and all of them have either been defeated or remained inconclusive, data compiled by a think tank shows.
Even senior Indian officials have openly stated that Chinese troops did not enter into the Indian territory, Wang said.
A provisional regulation by the General Offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council says party and government officials, whose spouses and children have migrated overseas, will now be subjected to strict examination while applying for private passports and travelling abroad.
The letter, signed by 130 lawmakers, was sent by Timothy Ryan and Mike Michaud.
China, the world's second largest economy, in a rare move on Monday lowered its GDP for 2012 by 0.1 percentage point to 7.7 per cent, the lowest in 14 years as the communist giant grapples with economic slowdown.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi will meet in Hyderabad in November first week for informal dialogue on the state of bilateral relations
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