The crews of the Shenzhou XIX and Shenzhou XX manned spaceships pose for a group photo in the Tiangong space station on Friday. The three astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou XX spaceship entered the country's space station and met with their fellow astronaut trio in the early hours of Friday, starting their in-orbit crew handover. XU BU / FOR CHINA DAILY See story, page 3
Steps mapped out to tackle global woes
China's policymakers have emphasized the need to coordinate domestic economic work with international economic and trade struggles, with efforts focused on stabilizing employment, enterprises, markets and expectations while expanding high-standard openingup, according to a key Party leadership meeting on Friday.
Scientists solve 160-year-old biology puzzle
A team of international scientists, mainly from China and the United Kingdom, has jointly identified the genetic variants behind all seven traits used by Austrian scientist Gregor Mendel more than 160 years ago to discover the basic laws of inheritance, solving a longstanding mystery in biology. The findings were published this week in the journal Nature.
Legislative items to be unveiled, revised in 2025
A number of legislative items concerning the economy and finance are expected to be unveiled and amended this year in a bid to optimize and promote high-quality development, a senior legislator announced on Friday.
Big two need to move forward
China has established itself as the world's second-largest economy, with GDP in 2024 reaching approximately 134 trillion yuan ($18.39 trillion). With nearly $6 trillion in total imports and exports and foreign exchange reserves of $3.2 trillion, China contributes around 30 percent to global economic growth.
Trade-in policy boosts consumption in China
China has continued to expand the scope of its consumer products trade-in programs, and the policy has effectively boosted consumption and promoted sustained economic growth, the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.
India, Pakistan troops trade fire in Kashmir
NEW DELHI — Troops from Pakistan and India exchanged fire overnight across the Line of Control in disputed Kashmir, officials said on Friday, even as the United Nations urged the nuclear-armed rivals to show "maximum restraint" following a deadly shooting in the region.
Mortals and myths
The second opera in Richard Wagner's epic Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung or The Ring Cycle), Die Walkure (The Valkyrie), is one of the most significant works in the operatic canon, for both its thematic depth and musical innovation.
Orchestra's towering ambitions
On Monday, the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra will bring an exciting new dimension to the ninth China Orchestra Festival at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts, with Tower Ascending by American composer Wayne Oquin.
Master the art down to a tea
About 1 pm on an early April Friday, at a studio in Tongwu village, one of the planting regions of Longjing (Dragon Well) tea in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, nine men and a woman were sitting before a shiny steel wok, each with one of their bare hands rhythmically stirring fresh tea leaves that were picked earlier that morning.
