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Oil, gas production helping strengthen energy security By ZHENG XIN | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-31 09:46 Share CLOSE An employee works at an oil extraction site in the south of Junggar Basin in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Dec 19. [Photo by ZHOU JIANLING/XINHUA] Significant results in exploration, coal bed extraction China has made progress in increasing domestic oil and gas production over the past five years, while the...

The UK has become the first country to authorise the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for public use, with roll-out to start in the first week of 2021. This vaccine is the second to be authorised in the UK – following the Pfizer vaccine.

Land-sea trade corridor helps spice up Chongqing hotpot with Indian chili China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-30 09:04 Share The Indian chilies. [Photo/Xinhua] CHONGQING－Indian farmer Prakash Nopo, 47, is busy organizing his fellow farmworkers as they pick chilies on his farm in Indias southern state of Andhra Pradesh. After cleaning, drying and packing, the chilies will be shipped from the port of Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, t...

Nation ranks top in 8 fields of science By ZHANG ZHIHAO | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-30 08:46 Share CLOSE An attendee looks at a model of a Beidou Navigation Satellite at an expo in Shenyang, Liaoning province, in September. HUANG JINKUN/FOR CHINA DAILY China was the worlds top producer of high-quality papers in eight scientific fields last year, but remained second to the United States in the number of papers in leading science jou...

Zhejiang province, an e-commerce heartland and foreign trade hub in East China, reported a robust increase in online retail sales in the first 11 months of this year.

Converse recasts itself as brand of youth By WANG ZHUOQIONG | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-29 09:06 Share CLOSE Visitors take photographs of Converse shoes at a shopping mall in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in November. [Photo provided to China Daily] Sportswear maker targets younger generation to burnish its image in Chinese market Converse, a prominent sportswear brand for over 100 years, has made it a priority to engage more with loc...

Livestreaming adds excitement, profitability to e-commerce By LIU YUKUN | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-28 09:26 Share CLOSE A host sells hot dry noodles, a popular dish in Wuhan, Hubei province, and other food products on a livestream broadcast from the 29th China Food Expo on Dec 3. [Photo by ZHAN SONG/CHANGJIANG DAILY] Around 7:30 pm one evening, Liu Kun, 33, adjusted lights in his mini "studio", switched on his tripod-mounted smart...

BEIJING－As the year draws to a close, China's economic rebound from COVID-19 is gathering pace and boosting hopes for the world's economic recovery.

The Yangjiang Nanpeng Island offshore wind farm. [Photo/China General Nuclear Power Corp] This month I had the pleasure of joining the Renewable Energy International Finance and Cutting-Edge Technology Forum in Hefei, East Chinas Anhui province. There was much to discuss and consider, with this a timely subject with much commonality between China and the UAE. China is a global leader in renewable energy, and when I fly into Beijing from the UAE, over the Himalayas, I can see wind turbines a...

Local individual investors had bought a net 14.7 trillion won (US$13.3 billion) worth of common and preferred shares in the global tech giant as of Thursday, according to the data from the Korea Exchange.Reta