China has sent urgent humanitarian aid to support Pakistan's flood-affected communities, reaffirming its longstanding friendship and solidarity. On Sunday, two Chinese relief flights landed at Nur ...

Chinese officials say their trade with the world is within reasonable bounds and that Beijing isn't out to dominate global markets.

Countries locked in tariff talks with Trump are hesitant to spark another trade war with China, giving Beijing relief from US levies once expected to slash its annual growth rate ...

Extreme weather overseas can also cause indirect losses in China. A separate paper we published this year, looking at droughts, floods and storms between 2009 and 2019, found that 17 per cent of China ...

Heavy rains from Ragasa caused a lake burst its banks in eastern Taiwan, killing at least 14 people and leaving 120 others missing, local media reported. The lake was formed from a landslide in July ...

As global temperatures rise, thermal expansion of oceans and melting ice sheets are driving up sea levels worldwide. In many coastal areas, land subsidence—caused by groundwater extraction and rapid ...

The number of deaths in workplace safety accidents in 2024 was 28 percent lower than in 2020, the final year of the 13th Five-Year Plan, senior Chinese emergency officials said on Wednesday, ...

China has built the world's largest, most comprehensive and populous water infrastructure system, Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying said on Monday. By the end of 2024, the country had constructed ...

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China has launched 85 national-level emergency responses, handling major disasters such as the 6.8 magnitude Luding earthquake in Sichuan province in 2022, the ...

The climate crisis is causing increased extreme weather events in Southeast Asia. Could “sponge cities,” a city planning method engineered by Chinese architect, Yu Kongjian, help them weather the ...

The Justice Department on Monday filed a lawsuit against so-called sanctuary policies in Minnesota as the Trump administration tries to have the court compel Democratic-led regions to abide by its ...