This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Since then, the declaration that arose from that conference has been a guideline to push for gender equality throughout...
A Smart City is a very comprehensive concept which brings together technology, government, and society to enable a smart economy, smart mobility, and a smart environment.Winnie Ho with Energizing Kowloon East Office explains what has been done to tra...
First Lady and UNESCO's Special Envoy for Girls' and Women's Education Peng Liyuan delivered a speech at the Global Education First Initiative event at the United Nations in New York on Sept 26, 2015. She said many years ago, her father made a small...
Sino-US tourism has recorded over 25 million trips between the two nations at an average annual growth of 7.6% since the China-US Tourism Leadership Summit was established in 2007. The summit includes tourism bureau chiefs from 31 Chinese provinces a...
John Kiefner has owned a farm for several decades in central Illinois. These days, he has been following news about the Chinese president's state visit. Kiefner says new cooperation in agriculture between China and the US will bring a lot of change t...
Director-General Bokova, ladies and gentlemen, It gives me a great pleasure to join you for this important initiative as the UN marks its 70th anniversary. Education is very close in my heart. My father grew up in a very small village in China. In th...
The Sustainable Development Summit continues into its second day with more than 70 heads of state and government delivering speeches stating their resolution to realize the 2030 development agenda. Among them, Chinese President Xi Jinping has made hi...
The U.S. Energy Secretary says the prospects for China-US cooperation in combating climate change are encouraging. He made the remark after leaders from the two countries issued a joint presidential announcement. Ernest Moniz says President Xi's visi...
A lack of charging piles and stations in urban areas is hindering the promotion of the use of electric vehicles. To solve the problem, the Chinese government is now requesting in a State Council statement earlier this week that all parking lots in ne...
Talking about President Xi's cultural references of sleepless Seattle and house of cards during his speech when arriving at Seattle, Rick Dunham, Co-director of the Global Business Journalist Program of Tsinghua University, says the cultural referenc...
More Chinese Travel to US with Increasing People-to-People Exchanges The number of Chinese travelers to the United States increased by 21-percent last year to more than 2-million. The U.S. Commerce Department is predicting a 17.5-percent annual incre...
The two-day session is mainly focused on areas such as trade in commodities and services, as well as investment. Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen says taking down trade barriers is critical, particularly given what's been happening in East...
President Xi Jinping also says China advocates the building of a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative cyber space. Xi Jinping made the comment while attending the 8th annual US-China Internet Industry Forum, at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond...
Beijing and Washington are expected to use Xi Jinping's visit to help finalize negative lists for each-other's respective economies after various rounds of negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty. Li Lijie's company runs a business-to-business...
Xuekerat Zakir, governor of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, says the regional government is resolved to stop the violence in the western Chinese region. Violent and terrorist crimes go against humanity, society and civilization. It is recognized wo...
