How Xi’s inspection detour leads to a program reshaping rural China
In the early 2000s, Xi Jinping, then the top official of east China’s Zhejiang Province, quietly told his aides during a rural inspection trip that he wanted to visit places…
Putin says strong head-of-state rapport underpins Russia-China ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets heads of 13 major international news agencies, including Xinhua, attending the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 4, 2026. Putin…
When lush mountains become a measure of governance
In August 2005, sweltering heat hung over a hilly village in eastern China. Inside a modest meeting room, an air conditioner hummed against the summer heat as Xi Jinping, then…
Xi to pay a state visit to DPRK from June 8 to 9
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, will pay a state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) from…
Xi Story: A bus ride across China’s urban-rural divide
As China works to narrow the development gap between cities and the countryside, the transformation of Jiaxing City in eastern Zhejiang Province is reflected in something as ordinary as a…
Xi urges faster building of a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is on an official visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of…