SERBIA Minister of Construction， Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic and Zhang Xiaoyuan， Director of China Road and Bridge Corp. Serbia， sign an agreement to build the Fruska Gora Corridor
Minister of Construction， Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic and Zhang Xiaoyuan， Director of China Road and Bridge Corp. Serbia， sign an agreement to build the Fruska Gora Corridor， watched by President Aleksandar Vucic and Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Chen Bo in Belgrade on October 6. The $715-billion project entails a 47.7-km multi-lane road， a tunnel and a bridge across the Danube River
EUROPEAN UNION
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces legal action against the United Kingdom in Brussels， Belgium， on October 1， alleging that the latter’s Internal Market Bill breaches the Brexit deal reached in January
ITALY
People wear masks at the Piazza Venezia in Rome on October 6. The government announced that the national state of emergency， first declared on January 31， would be extended for at least one year
AFGHANISTAN
Security forces inspect a car bomb explosion site in Shinwar District， Nangarhar Province， on October 3. At least 15 people were killed and 42 others wounded in the blast， blamed on the Taliban， and ensuing gunfi ght
NEW ZEALAND
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern casts her advance vote at a polling station in Auckland on October 3. The general election will be held on October 17 as well as two referendums on assisted dying for the terminally ill and legalizing cannabis use
SWEDEN
The Nobel Committee for Chemistry announces the two winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 7. Emmanuelle Charpentier with the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Germany and Jennifer A. Doudna from the University of California， Berkeley， were chosen for their work on genome editing
The United States’ October 21 announcement of three arms sale deals with Taiwan， together worth over $1.8 billion， has stirred up strong sentiments in China. While expressing its objection to the deal
The assembly line of Chengdu Huachuan Electric Parts Co. in Chengdu， Sichuan Province in southwest China， presents a busy sight with robotic arms and intelligent devices operating in tandem with human
China’s economic recovery is stronger than expected， predicted to grow by 1.9 percent in 2020， according to the latest World Economic Outlook report released by the International Monetary Fund（IMF） on
SCIENCE PROFESSOR WINS NATIONAL AWARD Sun Zhimei， a professor and PhD supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering， Beihang University， has received the National March 8 Red-Banner H
When I close my eyes， I see green wind. Its touch turns the woods green， gilds my calf gold， kisses the white walls of the house， dyes dad’s corns yellow. But I won’t tell the secret why the wind chan
The Chinese economy， which plays a key role in driving global economic growth in the era of globalization， has seen steady progress during the 13th Five-Year Plan（2016-20） period. Despite worldwide ec
In the past， football fan Zhang Chengyuan had to cycle quite a distance to the nearest football field from his home. But since the construction of a football field in his neighborhood in Chaoyang Dist
Workers put fi nishing touches on the third terminal at the Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport in Guiyang， Guizhou Province in southwest China， on November 11. The third-phase expansion projec
The U.S. regards Chinese news media outlets as part of a “propaganda machine” of the government because they are state-owned. On Twitter， almost all Chinese news agencies and journalists are labeled a
The year 2021 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China （CPC） and thus is an apt occasion to remember its innumerable services and countless sacrifices for the p
