When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in France on a state visit on March 25, he won't be headed to the Elysee Palace; instead, his first destination is a humble university residence in Lyon.
One of the people Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to meet when he is in the French city of Lyon is the writer and translator Li Tche-Houa.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's coming visit to France will be a significant opportunity for Beijing and Paris to strengthen the personal ties of their top leaders and to highlight major elements of the Sino-French partnership, a senior French diplomat says.
The Sino-French Emergency and Disaster Medicine Training Center, jointly established by the French Embassy in Beijing, the Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission and Total, a French petroleum company, opened its new training site in Beijing on Tuesday.
France is ready to offer assistance to Malaysian authorities to investigate the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370.
France strongly condemned the bloody attack that occurred Saturday at a train station in the Southwestern Chinese city of Kunming.
"We need a more balanced world, and Europe is an element of the balanced world," said Laurent Fabius, foreign minister of France, at his conferment ceremony as chair professor of International Relations and Global Governance of Nankai University.
China and France will celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties in a grand way to push bilateral relations to a higher level.
PSA Peugeot Citroen's board has approved a plan for an alliance with Dongfeng in which they would buy large minority stakes at a 40 percent discount.
Against the backdrop of globalization, innovative companies must combine global competence in R&D with an understanding of local markets, said officials and entrepreneurs from France and China at the 19th French-Chinese Economic Seminar held last week.
Paris has Europe's largest Chinatown, yet the number of politicians of Chinese descent in mainstream French politics is small.
China and France will jointly explore the international nuclear power market, while pushing ahead with existing nuclear projects.