CCTV9英语新闻：2014 saw 370 million orders placed via mobile apps

So as we've seen there, China's online food and catering industry is expanding at a very fast rate. A report by the Beijing-based group Analysys International says that 370 million individual orders were placed via mobile phone apps in 2014, that mea

CCTV9英语新闻：中国国家主席结束了对白俄罗斯的三天访问

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the China-Belarus Industrial Park before leaving Minsk for Beijing on Tuesday.

CCTV9英语新闻：美国特使在北京讨论朝鲜核问题

US special envoy on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Glyn Davies has arrived in Beijing to discuss nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula. Davies is scheduled to meet with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, and Chinas Special Represe

CCTV9英语新闻：No more free grad school starting Fall 2014

China is reforming its graduate school education system this year to make it available to more students and more valuable in the increasingly competitive job market. But will these changes have their intended effect? My colleague Zhong Shi joins me i

CCTV9英语新闻：婴孩使用爸爸手机在ebay上买汽车

An Oregon father learnt the hard way why children shouldn't play with smartphones when his 14-month-old daughter used his iPhone to buy a car listed on the online auction site. 一位美国父亲有一个14个月大的女儿，某天这名14个月大的

CCTV9英语新闻：中国多地遭受暴雨洪灾

Many parts of China have seen very heavy rainfall in the past few days. 在过去的几天中，中国多地遭受暴雨侵袭。 Rain-triggered floods in Hunchun city in northeastern province Jilin destroyed a bridge connnecting to a neighboring tow

cctv9英语新闻：《钢铁侠3》中国首映

Shao Gang, Consulting Director, Entgroup Consulting, said, Its a new tactic Hollywood studios have been using to avoid violating rules on co-production in China by using Chinese actors and filming in China. The upcoming Transformers 4 and World War Z

CCTV9英语新闻：Foreign media on China's Two Sessions

-- Russian media Sputnik has a report that China has entered a key period in building the nation into a well-off society. Sputnik reports that the effort will extend benefits to all of China's 1.3 billion citizens and will be a landmark achievement i

CCTV9英语新闻：China congratulates new Myanmar president

China has congratulated Htin Kyaw on being elected as the country's first civilian president in decades. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang says the two countries should strenghten their friendship by consolidating common interests and expand

CCTV9英语新闻：China vows to build powerful modern army

Let's delve into today's special segment: military reform. Han Peng, President Xi Jinping was attending a meeting of national lawmakers from the military on the sidelines of the 'Two Sessions'. What can you tell us on that? President Xi Jinping has u

CCTV9英语新闻：China-US common interests outweigh differences

China and the US, the world's two biggest economies, are closely interwined, both economically and politically. Premier Li Keqiang also spoke about managing their differences. For some time, many people have been talking about differences between the

CCTV9英语新闻：China's economy won't have hard landing

Premier Li Keqiang says China's economy will not have a hard landing. He expressed confidence in the economy during a media briefing as the political season wrapped up. Li said China is in a good position to defuse financial risks, and push for econo

CCTV9英语新闻：Drones to be a main theme of 2016 CEBIT

Its day two at one of the worlds largest technology trade fairs in Germany. Drones are a big theme for CEBIT 2016. Not a new product but industry bosses believe they're on the cusp of a major boom for the sector. The Aibot X-6 may look like fun to pl

CCTV9英语新闻：China Gold Association releases data for Q1

China's gold demand was 867 tons in 2015, down 7 percent from a year earlier. The downward trend continued in the first three months of this year. Consumption came in at about 318 tons in the first quarter, off nearly 4 percent from the same period i

CCTV9英语新闻：12,000-year-old artform championed by modern artist

Among Zambia's cultural treasures is rock art dating back 12,000 years. But authorities are failing to protect it from vandalism, theft, illegal rock quarrying, and even graffiti. One local artist, though, inspired by the artform, is doing what he ca

CCTV9英语新闻：Olympic flame to be handed to Brazil Wednesday

The Olympic torchbearers in Greece will hand over the Olympic flame to Brazil Wednesday. The torch is due to arrive in Brazil on May 3rd. Wednesday marks the 100 days until the games. After the lighting of the flame in ancient Olympia and a six-day r

CCTV9英语新闻：China rolls out more plans in robot industry

Robots are not only for fun and games, it's also a very serious industry in China. On April 6, the Ministry of Industry, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other ministries jointly issued a development plan for the com

CCTV9英语新闻：Countries unite to double wild tiger numbers by 2020

Siberian tigers are ranked among the biggest living cats in the world. They live primarily in eastern Russia's birch forests, though some exist in China and the DPRK. After more than a 100 years of constant decline, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature

CCTV9英语新闻：President Xi expects new chapter in aerospace development

Sunday marks the first Space Day of China. Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged the country's space scientists and engineers to usher in a new chapter in aerospace development. Xi Jinping asked them to seize the strategic opportunity, and keep

CCTV9英语新闻：Chinese youngsters swear adulthood oaths

In east Chinas Anhui province, thousands of high school students are attending May 4 Youth Day ceremonies that mark the coming of their adulthood. Oaths of gratitude, dreams and responsibility are sworn. The Youth Day seems also a good chance to swea