The 3rd Silk Road Global News Awards calls for submission

India's federal government on Friday announced a cut in excise duty on petrol and diesel imports, and also rejected media reports of a lockdown-like crisis in the country.

China's top legislator Zhao Leji met separately on Thursday with Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne, who were in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, to attend the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2026.

China's science fiction industry generated 126.1 billion yuan ($17.4 billion) in revenue in 2025, up 15.7% year on year, according to data released at the opening of the 2026 China Science Fiction Convention in Beijing on Friday.

Profits of China's major industrial firms increased 15.2 percent year-on-year in the first two months of 2026, with equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing serving as major growth drivers, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Friday.

Panel discussions held during Boao forum 2026

Chinese-Brazilian calligraphy and painting exhibition kicks off in Rio de Janeiro

Since the "Boao Near-Zero Carbon Demonstration Zone" was renamed the "Boao Zero-Carbon Demonstration Zone" in March 2025, the area has achieved notable progress in energy conservation and carbon reduction and has fully entered a stage of normalized zero-carbon operation.

China urges certain Czech senators to fully recognize the anti-China and separatist nature of the Dalai clique, stop interfering in Xizang-related issues, stop sending any wrong signals to "Xizang independence" forces in any form, and take concrete actions to safeguard the sound and steady