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Officials should "be bold in taking responsibility, throw themselves into the work of implementation, and strive to deliver satisfactory results to the Party and the people," Xi urged during his inspection tour, Xinhua said.  China's top leadership tends to keep a distance from specific projects, but Xi has tied his own name to Xiongan as he cemented his position as paramount leader of China's Communist Party and the People's Republic.  Official documents and state media hail the decision to build the city as one of lasting importance for the coming millennium, emphasising Xi's personal role in planning, making decisions and driving forward the project. Xi first visited the site in 2017, the year he got a second term as general secretary of the Communist Party, followed by a 2019 visit after a historic constitutional amendment the previous year paved the way for a third leadership term. Monday's tour included visits to the newly built headquarters of ...

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Rare earths Photo: VCG China's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has revealed new mine exploration results showing significant rare-earth reserves in Maoniuping, Mianning County, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, the China Central Television (CCTV) Finance Channel reported on Tuesday.  The report cited mineral exploration results released by the MNR, stating that a total of 9.6656 million tons of rare-earth oxides, along with 27.1354 million tons of fluorite and 37.2277 million tons of barite, were found in the Maoniuping mining area. The discovery of new rare earth oxide in the area represented an increase in reserves of over 300 percent, making it the world's second-largest light rare-earth mine after the Bayan Obo deposit in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to the report. Experts said that the findings represent another major discovery that significantly bolsters the country's strategic rare-earth reserves an d expands the nat...

China has dialled back on planned fuel price hikes in a bid to "reduce the burden" on drivers, as energy costs surge amid the Iran war. The local price of petrol has jumped by about 20% since the start of the conflict, which has seen Iran effectively close one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels, the Strait of Hormuz, News.Az reports, citing the BBC . Gasoline and diesel prices were initially set to rise by 2,205 yuan (£239; $320) and 2,120 yuan per tonne respectively, but after government adjustments, the increases will be nearly halved to 1,160 yuan and 1,115 yuan, starting Tuesday. More than 300 million people in China drive cars that run on petrol or diesel, with Gulf countries a major source of the country's oil. Long queues of cars had formed outside petrol stations in multiple Chinese cities over the weekend, with some stations having to post notic...

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US congressional advisory body has issued a stark warning to America's biggest artificial intelligence (AI) companies: China's AI ecosystem is no longer just catching up and it is zooming ahead in ways that chip export restrictions alone cannot stop. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission published a report on Monday (March 23) concluding that China's dominance in open-source AI is generating a "self-reinforcing competitive advantage" which is allowing those companies to challenge US rivals despite being cut off from the world's most advanced AI chips.Since 2022, the US government has imposed export restrictions on China, blocking it from acquiring the most advanced AI processors: which is now being seriously challenged. Chinese companies including Alibaba, Moonshot, and MiniMax have developed large language models at a lower cost which now dominate worldwide usage rankings on platforms like Huggin...

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Chinese scientists have discovered a way to turn cheap coal into valuable ingredients for medicine. This was once a long and difficult process, but now they have found a surprising short cut. In a study published on March 16 in the journal Nature, Jiao Ning's team at Peking University solved a chemical puzzle that had confounded scientists for over 160 years. They successfully transformed inexpensive and readily available industrial feedstock – olefins – into high-value alkynes under mild and efficient conditions. This breakthrough not only revolutionises the concepts of molecular synthesis but also opens a gateway for China's coal-based chemical industry to venture into the production of high-value-added fine chemicals. This exemplifies the strategic thinking that has guided China's chemical industry in recent years: without needing more oil , China's chemical industry can improve and create more value through new ideas. To grasp the significance of this achieve...

A Chinese woman from Jiangxi was reunited with her biological parents, 28 years after she was abandoned in a toilet as a newborn by her grandfather.  She was later adopted by a Dutch couple. On March 14, Hong Yangli (transliteration) was accompanied by volunteers searching for her family, as she met her biological mother who burst into tears and pulled her into a tight embrace, Chinese outlet QQ News reported. The daughter was welcomed with a banquet and firecrackers, reports said. Hong is the third child of her biological family before she was abandoned by her grandfather without her parents' knowledge, reported Chinese media.  With a traditional mindset, Hong's grandfather favoured boys over girls and left the infant in a toilet in another village, reported South China Morning Post (SCMP).  Hong's father, Xu Lihong, said he was guilt-ridden for years but did not challenge his father or report the case to the police out of filial piety.� � The baby was later found by ...