A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a U.S. machine which now ranks second.

China on Monday dismissed as “groundless” claims that a former U.S. intelligence contractor who is hiding in Hong Kong spied for Beijing, as state media said extraditing him back home would amount to a “betrayal.”

Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University, accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure" from China.

Now is the best time for China to develop its service trade, and the country can become one of the biggest outsourcing service providers in the world within the next few years, Wei Jianguo, former vice minister of commerce and secretary-general of China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said on Saturday.

China's official army newspaper Sunday branded the United States Internet surveillance program exposed by former spy Edward Snowden as “frightening,” and accused the U.S. of being a “habitual offender” when it comes to network monitoring.

Half of Hong Kongers believe the city's government should not extradite former U.S. spy Edward Snowden, according to a poll published on Sunday a day after hundreds protested in his support.

Chinese Internet users reacted with outrage to reports of a racist assault on six Chinese oenology students studying in France on Sunday, while others denounced the victims whom they said were children of wealthy officials.

China's Cabinet has announced measures to curb the country's notorious air pollution, one of the many environmental challenges facing the country that are increasingly angering the public.

A top Chinese official on Saturday warned of risky conditions for laborers after a probe found “many” problems following the country's deadliest blaze in over a decade which killed 120 people in a poultry plant.

Recently retired soccer superstar David Beckham will be joined by his wife Victoria during a seven-day visit to China next week, reports said Friday.