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China's neighborhood diplomacy charts blueprint for a prosperous Asia

Chinese President Xi Jinping's just-concluded visit to Singapore has created new engines for bilateral cooperation and set a new model for regional cooperation.

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China's Five-Year Plan offers model of sustainable, balanced development

China's Five-Year Plan from 2016 to 2020, aiming at a more sustainable and balanced way of development, offers a model to be widely discussed by world economists.

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China's 13th Five-Year Plan to unleash more opportunities for global development

​A new five-year national socioeconomic development plan to be released by China, which will charter an explicit blueprint for the country's development over the next five years, will also provide more opportunities for the development of other countries.

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China's new five-year plan to end one-child policy

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has decided on the country's course for the next five years, targeting medium-high economic growth, highlighting innovation and abandoning the decades-long one-child policy, after a key meeting on Thursday.

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China hits home stretch on long march to prosperity

​A meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opens on Monday to begin finalizing the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) for national development; the final countdown to reaching the first Centenary Goal.

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Myanmar gov't to prioritize development in areas under ceasefire accord

​Myanmar government will prioritize development projects in areas covered by ceasefire accord, an official report quoted Minister at the President's Office U Aug Min as reporting Friday.

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Planning on Yangtze River economic zone to issue

It is learnt by the Economic Information Daily that preliminary framework of the Outline of Planning on Development Strategy of Yangtze River Economic Zone (the Planning Outline) which is one of the three major economic strategies in China, has already been finished and is likely to be issued before the end of this year, or even before the release of ‘thirteenth five-year plan’. To this respect, insiders indicate that Yangtze River Economic Zone is a significant axis band crossing eastern, middle and western parts of China and connecting the northern and southern China, likely to be ‘China’s economic backbone’.

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China's voice at UN calls for peace, development in world at large

​Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday took the floor at the annual high-level debate of the UN General Assembly to present China's views on the current world situation and proposals for peace and development in the world at large.

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China is a welcome partner of developing countries

​"China is a welcome partner of the developing countries," said Tegegnework Gettu, UN Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management, on Thursday, a day ahead of the landmark UN Sustainable Development Summit.

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China issues white paper on gender equality, women's development

China issued Tuesday a white paper on gender equality and women's development, providing a comprehensive overview of the country's women policies as well as unremitting efforts made and measures implemented in this regard.

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China's satisfactory answer sheet on UN millennium goals

China has presented a satisfactory answer sheet in its efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were set by the United Nations in 2000 with a deadline of this year.

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DPRK hints at satellites launch

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Monday that it is accelerating efforts at the final stage of development for satellites for earth observations, hailing its huge progress in research on developing geostationary satellites.

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Ambitious sustainable development goals reflect substantially changing world: expert

​The "supremely ambitious and transformational vision" on the United Nations' sustainable development agenda reflects the substantial changes the world has undergone in the last 15 years, a former UN official said.

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Vice premier attends meeting on Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei development

​Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli on Thursday met with an expert advisory committee on the coordinated development of Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and Hebei Province.

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Nepalese officials find development of Tibet beyond imagination

​Dadhiram Bhandari, Section Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a pre-assumption that Tibet is a marginalized and a primitive place, that was both barren and underdeveloped.

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Leaders from over 100 countries to gather at UN Sustainable Development summit

​More than 100 heads of state and government will gather here later this month for the UN Sustainable Development Summit to adopt the sustainable development agenda that lasts through 2030, the world body announced Thursday.

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Obstacles to soccer growth falling away

Following a recent move by China's top sports body to give up its authority over the Chinese Football Association, a local sports authority in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, said it will mirror that action and cut its own ties to the local football association.