Heading home for Chinese New Year: Beijing's first Spring Festival travel rush train departs

At 00:40 am on Monday, K4069, the first train departing Beijing during this year's Spring Festival travel rush, left Beijing West Railway Station, bound for Nanchang, East China’s Jiangxi Province.

2026 Spring Festival travel rush begins

The 2026 Spring Festival travel rush, or Chunyun in Chinese, the world's largest annual human migration, kicked off on February 2, 2026. The first originating passenger train departing from Beijing ...

Ushering in a nation of readers

For young readers like Li, libraries function as both intellectual resources and spaces of emotional refuge. The regulations place special emphasis on protecting the reading rights of minors, senior ...

Iran's pushback

Members of Iran's parliament dressed in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) uniforms chant "Death to America" during a session in Tehran on February 1, 2026, as Iran designated the armies of ...

Chinese FM holds strategic dialogue with Russia’s Shoigu; Wang warns the world ‘faces risk of regressing to law of jungle’

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that as the world faces a real risk of regressing to the law of the jungle, China and Russia, as major countries and permanent members of the UN Security Council, ...
Opinion

Welcome more friends from around the world to celebrate the Spring Festival in China: Global Times editorial

Monday marks the first day of the 2026 Spring Festival travel rush. Travelers heading home may notice that this year, their fellow passengers include more foreign faces than in previous years. Data ...

CCG releases videos on maritime governance, law enforcement in the sea on law anniversary

A CCG vessel sails at sea Photo: screenshot of CCG video. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the implementation of ...

Trump nominates Kevin Warsh to lead Federal Reserve

A view of the US Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC on January 26, 2026. Photo: AFP. US President Donald Trump said he thinks Kevin Warsh, his pick to head the Federal Res ...

GT investigates: From Western Hemisphere to Persian Gulf, how the US seeks to impose hegemonic control over ‘key regions’

In his annual address to French ambassadors in January, French President Emmanuel Macron sharply criticized the US for ...

Djokovic hailed for tenacity despite Aussie Open final defeat

Despite suffering a 3-1 defeat on Sunday during the Australian Open men's singles final, Serbian tennis veteran Novak ...

GT Voice: Vitality in China-UK cooperation highlights constructive role of China's outward investment

Photo: VCG Following British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's recent four-day visit to China, a series of two-way investment ...

Takaichi skipping of TV debate due to 'hand injury' sparks dissatisfaction from Japanese politicians, netizens, saying Takaichi avoids key questions including Unification ...

With campaigning underway ahead of Japan's House of Representatives election scheduled for February 8, Japanese media and netizens are questioning whether Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi deliberately ...