This day, 25 August, 2004, the 10th Conference of Diplomatic Envoys to Foreign Countries was held in Beijing, with 222 ambassadors, consul generals and representatives to international organisations in attendance.
2004年8月25日的这一天，在北京举行了第十届外交使节会议，有222名大使、总领事和国际组织代表出席了会议。
Excitement in the air is tangible as up to 2,000 people discover they are now back online. For this is not a plane where flight mode can be more or less ignored; it’s the middle of the ocean, and...
This day, 24 August, in 2020, Duan Jielong was elected as one of the 21 judges sitting on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for a term of 9 years. The Tribunal is an international judicial...
This day, 23 August, in 1884, the opening engagement in the Battle of Fuzhou took place, fought between the navies of France and Qing-Dynasty China. Officers and sailors of the Chinese ships died heroically; the entire Fujian Navy was...
This day, 22 August, in 1659, the Polish Jesuit and missionary, Michał Boym, passed away. As one of the first European scientists to visit East Asia, Boym had created the first systematic botanical encyclopedia about China, the “Flora Sinensis”,...
This day, 21 August, in 2014, President Xi Jinping and Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia signed the “Joint Declaration on the Establishment & Development of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia” in Ulaanbaatar.
2014年8月21日的这一天，习近平主席和蒙古总统Elbegdorj Tsakhia在乌兰巴托签署了《中华人民共和国和蒙古建立和发展全面战略伙伴关系的联合声明》。
This day, 20 August, in 2002, the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Held every 4 years, this was also the first time in history that the Congress had been...
This day, 19 August, in 2001, Philippine government forces engaged in a fierce gunfight with kidnappers to rescue Chinese hostages. During the operation, Zhang Zhongqiang and Xue Xing, technicians working on the construction of the Malmar irrigation project, were...
