Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, shakes hands with To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, on Tuesday at the launching ceremony of the China-Vietnam railway cooperation mechanism in Hanoi. Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (first from right) and other Chinese and Vietnamese officials also attended the ceremony. Feng Yongbin / China Daily
Xi: People key to Beijing-Hanoi bond
President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that the time-tested China-Vietnam relations are rooted in the people, upheld by the people and strengthened with the support of the people, and he called on the two countries to converge the small creeks of friendly people-to-people interactions into a mighty river of China-Vietnam friendship.
Chinese investors boost growth in Malaysia
Mazlim Husin, chief commercial officer of Kuantan Port, has personally seen how Chinese investments have transformed Kuantan — the capital city of the state of Pahang, which is located on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
DPP breaking apart families for political gain
Chen Li-chun, a young artist from Taiwan, created a caricature to satirize the recent actions of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party authorities in breaking up cross-Strait marriage families, which she views as a violation of human rights.
Carmakers in Germany face US tariff woes
The United States' latest 25 percent tariffs on all auto imports is set to deal another blow to Germany's already struggling car industry, experts say, warning of potential fallout for the export-reliant sector.
Giant domestic mkt hedge against tariffs
As the complexity, severity and uncertainty of the external environment continue to intensify, China's foreign trade has been seeing certain pressure, and the government will help guide the nation's exporters to find more business opportunities in the super large-scale domestic market, a senior official said.
Twin trade events show China will not close its doors in face of tariff attack
While the United States tries to create a new trade order that is exclusively beneficial to itself with its so-called reciprocal tariffs, more than 30,000 domestic companies and over 200,000 overseas buyers are attending the 137th China Import and Export Fair, which opened in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Tuesday.
Uncontainable ascent
China is attempting to maintain development momentum by changing the internal drivers of growth from a massive investment expansion to more consumption-drawn growth, while increasing capital exports and pursuing various foreign direct investments.
Under the blossoms, a village blooms
Chen Meimei, a 26-year-old from Shiyan, Hubei province, recently spent a weekend in Xinghua village in Danjiangkou, less than two hours away. She arrived just in time for the village's annual "Three Blossoms Festival", which celebrates the blooming of apricot, peach, and rape flowers — and the experience was unlike any she'd had before.
