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China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5% year on year in the first quarter of 2026, 0.5 percentage points faster than that of the fourth quarter of 2025, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Thursday. The country’s GDP reached 33.4 trillion yuan (about $4.87 trillion) during this period, the NBS data showed. In the first quarter, “the growth of production and supply accelerated, market demand continued to improve, employment was generally stable, market prices picked up moderately, and high-quality development advanced with new and positive momentum,” the NBS said in a statement. “The national economy got off…

ISLAMABAD (DI NEWS) : Today marks the remembrance day of Azerbaijan’s prominent scholar, Honored Scientist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, full member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Zarifa Aliyeva, Report informs. It has been 41 years since Zarifa Aliyeva’s death. Zarifa Aliyeva died on April 15, 1985, in Moscow. In 1994, her remains were transferred from Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery to Baku and buried in the Alley of Honor next to her father’s grave. Zarifa Aliyeva was born on April 28, 1923, in the Sharur district of Nakhchivan. She graduated from the Azerbaijan State Medical Institute named after Nariman…

ISLAMABAD (DI NEWS) : Eight friends, thousands of kilometers, and a shared sense of adventure — a US student’s journey through the rugged beauty and quiet kindness of China’s Northwest. Growing up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a small city surrounded by endless plains, I’ve found unexpected echoes of home in China’s smaller towns — from the warmth of locals in Huaihua, Central China’s Hunan province, to the quiet charm of Yangshuo, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. With an itch to see more of China’s lesser-visited regions, I began planning a trip to the northwest with seven friends —…

ISLAMABAD (DI NEWS) : Ambassador Khalil Hashmi visited Ningbo, a coastal city in eastern China, on 14 April 2026 as part of efforts by Pakistan Embassy and its Consulates in China to mobilize investments in 21 priority areas. The Ambassador delivered a keynote address at Pakistan-China (Ningbo) Industrial Cooperation Summit and spoke at two B2B Investment Roundtables in the ICT and Pharmaceutical sectors. These events were organized in collaboration with Pakistan Consulate General in Shanghai and by IBI Group. During his keynote address at the summit, Ambassador Hashmi highlighted Pakistan’s key advantages of location, competitive labour costs, favorable investment policy…

China’s largest scientific artificial intelligence (AI) computing cluster went operational on Tuesday in Zhengzhou City, central China’s Henan Province, marking an advancement in the country’s AI-driven scientific research infrastructure. The world is currently experiencing a paradigm shift in scientific research, with AI-driven discovery becoming a key frontier in global technology competition. Realizing its full potential requires accessible high-performance computing power, according to a report from China Media Group. The cluster acts as a core node of the country’s supercomputer network. It began trial operation in February, initially offering more than 30,000 domestic AI accelerator chips. The April upgrade increased the…

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, held talks with To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and Vietnamese president, in Beijing on Wednesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Beijing on Wednesday.

China is ready to import more high-quality products from Spain and encourages more capable Chinese enterprises to invest in Spain, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Tuesday. Li made the remarks when holding talks with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is on an official visit to China. Noting that China and Spain are major economies in the world, Li said the two sides should jointly uphold multilateralism and free trade, and firmly promote openness and cooperation, injecting impetus into the development of both countries and the world at large. The more volatile and turbulent the international landscape becomes, the…

China’s foreign trade got off to a strong start this year, with total imports and exports reaching 11.84 trillion yuan ($1.63 trillion) in the first quarter, up 15% year on year, according to officials on Tuesday. The figure marks the first time that first-quarter trade has exceeded 11 trillion yuan, while the quarterly growth rate is also the fastest in nearly five years, signaling solid momentum in external trade, said Wang Jun, deputy head of China’s General Administration of Customs. Breaking down the data, exports totaled 6.85 trillion yuan, up 11.9%, while imports rose 19.6% to 4.99 trillion yuan. Private…

China and Spain should strengthen cooperation to oppose a return of the world to “the law of the jungle,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday. Xi made the remarks during his meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is on an official visit to China. Noting the world today is in turmoil and confronted with the contest between the rule of law and the rule of power, Xi called on both China and Spain to jointly defend true multilateralism.