Some 2.26 tons of human feces, 1 ton of mountaineering trash and 5.24 tons of household waste have been removed from the world’s highest peak since April, Qomolangma mountain officials told the Global Times on Thursday. A further 8 tons of trash was removed between 5,200 meters and 6,500 meters above sea level, Penma Trinley, …
A staff member stands near the first Airbus A330 plane to be delivered from Airbus’ Chinese completion plant to Tianjin Airlines on September 20, 2017. Photo: VCG European aircraft manufacturer Airbus entered the Chinese market amid China’s early reform and opening-up. From subcontracting work packages to the China Aviation Industry Corp in the 1980s to …
Photo: IC On Friday, the first batch of Chinese mainland-listed stocks will be included in the MSCI indexes, an inclusion that China has been striving toward for years. But some active fund managers have noted that they won’t immediately react by changing their investment portfolios after the inclusion. Some domestic media have cautioned that investors …
A giant salamander Photo: IC The giant salamander’s distress call resembles the cry of a baby. Threatened by extinction, the creature probably doesn’t know it should sound an alarm. A study has for the first time revealed that there are at least five subspecies of the giant salamander in China. Old conservation studies knew …
A view of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Photo: Huang Ge/GT When the Chinese mainland began opening up to the world at the start of its reform and opening-up policy 40 years ago, Hong Kong-based companies in turn started playing a vital role in helping shape the economic landscape of the country. “It’s lucky for me …
About 6.9 percent of Chinese teenagers smoke, 19.9 percent of them have tried smoking at least once, and 180 million children in the country have been harmed by passive smoking, a Chinese health department official said Sunday, citing survey data. Habits acquired during teenage years could leave their mark on a person’s whole life, Li …
China’s first remote-island intelligent microgrid officially went into operation on Yongxing Island in the South China Sea on Sunday in a move that Chinese experts hailed as beneficial to regional civil and military development. The small power grid increases the island’s power supply eightfold and can operate independently or in conjunction with Hainan Province’s main …
Rwandan President Paul Kagame (L) and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends the opening day of the World Health Assembly, an annual meeting of health representatives to discuss a range of global health issues, on May 21, in Geneva. Photo: VCG China is willing to cooperate with other countries to do justice …
HTC showcases its new U12+ smartphone and standalone VR headset Vive Focus. Photos: Zhang Ye/GT Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC’s China regional president, answers a phone call via Vive Focus. To the outside world, HTC’s phone business is close to death, especially after Google bought a chunk of the Taiwan-based phone maker’s smartphone design talent in …
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, has sent a team to north China’s Hebei Province to inspect the implementation of the Air Pollution Control Law. Shen Yueyue, vice chairwoman of the NPC Standing Committee and head of the inspection team, stressed that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surroundings are a …