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FILE: China's President Xi Jinping sings the national anthem during the closing session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 11 March 2022. Picture: Leo RAMIREZ/AFP

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China's Xi urges 'all-out' infrastructure push to boost growth

By AFP

China's Xi Jinping has called for an 'all-out' campaign to build infrastructure, according to state media, marking the latest attempt by leaders to boost growth...

  • FILE:  Hundreds of firefighters were dispatched to the scene in Teng county near the city of Wuzhou, state media reported, as nearby villagers rushed to help the rescue effort. Picture: pexels.com

    Plane carrying 132 crashes in China, Xi orders probe

    There was no immediate confirmation of the number of casualties, but the disaster prompted an unusually swift public reaction from President Xi Jinping.

    56 days ago
  • A Ukraine soldier inspects the rubble of a destroyed apartment building in Kyiv on 15 March 2022, after strikes on residential areas killed at least two people. Picture: FADEL SENNA/AFP

    US President Joe Biden to press China to get in line over condemnation of Russia

    US President Joe Biden will warn his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he will face "costs" if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense Western sanctions.

    60 days ago
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP

    Xi meets Putin as tensions with West rise

    Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was grappling with its initial COVID-19 outbreak and locked down the central city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected.

    101 days ago
  • FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and led to the founding of the Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 9 October 2021. Picture: AFP

    Xi to meet Putin as tensions rise with West

    Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was grappling with its initial Covid-19 outbreak and locked down the central city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected.

    102 days ago
  • FILE: FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP.

    China's Xi promises Africa 1 billion COVID vaccine doses

    In a speech made via videolink to a China-Africa summit near Senegal's capital Dakar, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would donate 600 million doses directly. A further 400 million doses would come from other sources.

    168 days ago
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP

    China's Xi warns of 'grim' situation with Taiwan

    China views self-ruled democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and vows to retake it one day, by force if necessary.

    232 days ago
  • FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP.

    Biden, Xi talk to avoid US-China 'conflict:' W.House

    This was the leaders' first call since February, when they talked for two hours, shortly after Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump.

    249 days ago
  • FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP

    China approves radical overhaul of Hong Kong's political system

    The new measures, which bypassed Hong Kong's legislature and were imposed directly by Beijing, are the latest move aimed at quashing the city's democracy movement after huge protests.

    413 days ago
  • FILE: US President Joe Biden speaks during remarks on the implementation of the American Rescue Plan in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington, DC on 15 March 2021. Picture: Eric Baradat/AFP

    Tough talk at first face-to-face US- China meeting of Biden era

    China's actions "threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability," Blinken said at the opening of the two-day meeting.

    423 days ago
  • FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a state banquet at the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila on 20 November, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Football power by 2050? China dream totters on shaky foundations

    Jiangsu FC on Sunday said they had "ceased operations" -- just three months after winning the Chinese Super League -- in a move described as "shocking" by state media.

    441 days ago
  • FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP

    China's Xi pens letter to Starbucks tycoon to promote trade

    Xi, responding to an earlier message from Schultz, urged the multi-billionaire to "continue to play an active role in promoting China-US economic and trade cooperation", the official Xinhua news agency said.

    488 days ago
  • Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden looks on while speaking at the Queen venue in Wilmington, Delaware, on 5 November 2020. Picture: AFP.

    China sends 'congratulations' to Joe Biden on US election win

    US-China ties have grown increasingly strained in recent years under the administration of incumbent Donald Trump, and relations are as icy as at any time since formal ties were established four decades ago.

    550 days ago
  • FILE: This photo taken on 18 November 2013 shows Ren Zhiqiang, the former chairman of state-owned property developer Huayuan Group, speaking at the China Public Welfare Forum in Beijing. Picture: AFP

    Chinese tycoon and Xi critic jailed for 18 years for corruption

    Ren Zhiqiang - once among the ruling Communist Party's inner circle - disappeared from the public eye in March, shortly after penning an essay that lambasted Xi's pandemic response.

    602 days ago
  • FILE: This photo released on 10 February 2020 by China's Xinhua News Agency shows Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) wearing a protective facemask as a health official (R) checks his body temperature during an inspection of the novel coronavirus pneumonia prevention and control work at the Anhuali Community in Beijing. Picture: AFP.

    China's Xi says China acted openly and transparently on COVID-19

    Xi, speaking at a ceremony honouring role models during the country’s fight against the disease, said China is the first major economy to return to growth during the pandemic - a fact he said demonstrates the country’s strong abilities and vitality.

    616 days ago
  • FILE: Police detain a woman (2nd L) as pro-democracy protesters gather in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on 12 June 2020. Thousands of Hong Kongers sang a protest anthem and chanted slogans across the city on 12 June as they marked the one-year anniversary of major clashes between police and pro-democracy demonstrators. Picture: AFP.

    China imposes feared Hong Kong security law

    As the law was signed by President Xi Jinping little more than six weeks after it was first unveiled, Beijing described it as a "sword" hanging over the heads of those who endanger national security.

    685 days ago
  • FILE: This photo released on 10 February 2020 by China's Xinhua News Agency shows Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) wearing a protective facemask as a health official (R) checks his body temperature during an inspection of the novel coronavirus pneumonia prevention and control work at the Anhuali Community in Beijing. Picture: AFP.

    China's Xi pays first visit to virus epicentre Wuhan

    The Communist Party leader arrived by plane in Hubei's capital for an "inspection of the epidemic prevention and control work" in the region, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

    798 days ago
  • FILE: This photo released on 10 February 2020 by China's Xinhua News Agency shows Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) wearing a protective facemask as a health official (R) checks his body temperature during an inspection of the novel coronavirus pneumonia prevention and control work at the Anhuali Community in Beijing. Picture: AFP.

    Beijing mobilises the masses in 'people's war' against coronavirus

    Authorities have tapped their propaganda powers to wage what President Xi Jinping has dubbed a 'people's war' against the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,300 people and infected nearly 60,000.

    824 days ago
  • FILE: President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP

    Xi says China fighting 'demon' virus as nations prepare airlifts

    In a development that could cause more jitters abroad, Japan and Germany reported the first confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission outside of China.

    839 days ago
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