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Alibaba woos US small businesses

[2017-06-21 11:00]

China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group chose Detroit, Michigan, to stage its inaugural two-day Gateway '17 Summit, which kicked off on Tuesday and is designed to educate American small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the Chinese market and consumer demands to ultimately help them sell to China.

Forum aids cross-Straits cooperation

[2017-06-19 07:05]

China's top political adviser Yu Zhengsheng has stressed the mainland's commitment to promoting people-to-people exchanges as well as economic and social development across the Taiwan Straits despite setbacks during the past year.

Leaders send condolences over Kohl

[2017-06-19 07:05]

President Xi Jinping expressed condolences over the death of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl on Saturday, saying that Chinese people will never forget their "old friend" for his consistent commitment to promoting China-Germany relations.

Belt, Road can help HK, says Leung

[2017-06-19 07:05]

Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong's outgoing chief executive, has urged the city to grab the opportunities presented by the Greater Bay Area - part of the national strategy behind the Belt and Road Initiative - and leverage its unique advantages to speed up development over the next decade.

China leads the pack

[2017-06-19 07:05]

Though still 15 years from commercial use, so-called combustible ice and its successful mining in China is seen as a breakthrough toward a global energy revolution.

Philosophy as the art of life maintenance

[2017-06-19 07:05]

The art of writing. It has always been a mystery. Ever since the three Rs (reading, writing and arithmetic) entered the English vocabulary in the early 19th century, writers and journalists have been trying to manipulate the vocabulary to come up with a masterpiece.

This Day, That Year

[2017-06-19 07:05]

Item from June 19, 1994, in China Daily: The safe-box business, opened on June 8 by the Trust and Investment Corp of the People's Construction Bank of China, has become extremely popular in Beijing.

Looking ahead

[2017-06-19 07:05]

Events and stories coming up in the next few days

China achieves a quantum jump

[2017-06-17 07:13]

China has become the first country in the world to establish photon entanglement at a distance of more than 1,200 kilometers, paving the way for ultrasecure, long-distance quantum communication.

Smart 'green cards' now available

[2017-06-17 07:13]

A new ID card designed to give foreign permanent residents easier access to public services in China was issued across the country on Friday to expats holding "green cards".

Decades later, Ono to get co-writing credit for Lennon hit Imagine

[2017-06-17 07:13]

NEW YORK - Nearly half a century after John Lennon released the song Imagine, his widow and artistic collaborator Yoko Ono will be listed as a co-writer.

Shanghai Disneyland set to break even

[2017-06-17 07:13]

US entertainment giant Walt Disney looks to have hit the ground running in the world's largest consumer market, with Shanghai Disneyland on track to achieve break-even in the first year of operation, CEO Robert Iger said on Friday.

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