ByHanane Thamik The launching ceremony of the second World Digital Economic and Digital Trade Conference was held in Beijing China World Hotel. The second World Live E-commerce Conference, the first China-Arab Digital Economy and Digital Trade Conference, and the first China-Arab states Digital-friendliness Investment Summit were launched simultaneously. The theme …

AFRICAN ECONOMY African and European leaders, as well as heads of multilateral lenders and institutions, will meet in Paris on Tuesday to try to find new solutions to financing Africa’s development needs. The “Summit on Financing African Economies” will be hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. The International Monetary Fund …

By Zhong Nan A US cargo ship docks at the Qingdao Port, Shandong province. [Photo by Yu Shaoyue/For China Daily] China remains a priority market for companies from the United States, and wholesale decoupling of the US and Chinese economies is in neither country’s economic interest, according to a business …

By Andrew Korybko The New York Times ran a scaremongering piece on Sunday speculating about the nefarious intentions of China’s growing media presence across the world. Titled “When Covid Hit, China Was Ready To Tell Its Version Of The Story”, the article is partly based on an upcoming report to …

Editor’s note: “Roots of China’s Growth” is a 10-episode series marking the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has presided over the country’s meteoric rise as a global power. The series focuses on 10 fundamental elements of the strategy that has led to China’s transformation …

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said it would invest 3 billion dollars to build Africa’s pharmaceutical industry in the next 10 years. President of the AfDB, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, said this at a virtual Finance in Common Spring Meeting convened in collaboration with the Association of African Development Finance …

South Africa on Wednesday reiterated its call for an African country to be included in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa Alvin Botes made the remarks at a symposium to reflect on the role South Africa plays in fostering multilateralism …

Visitors try rowing machines in an exhibition hall of the first China International Consumer Products Expo in Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province, May 7, 2021. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun) A UN report revised its forecast for China from 7.2 percent to 8.2 percent; and for the United States from 3.4 …

Photo taken on Oct. 17, 2020 shows a machine harvesting cotton in a field in Wenjiazhuang Village, Manasi County of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Ding Lei) The United Nations ought to be a place to promote truth and justice. Yet those Western countries, by staging a hypocritical political …

The Security Council strongly condemned Monday’s attack on the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which killed one Malawian blue helmet. The members of the Security Council expressed their deepest condolences to the family of the victim, the Malawian authorities and the UN …