Brussels is the capital city of Belgium and also serves as the administrative center of the European Union.
比利时首都布鲁塞尔同时也是欧盟的行政中心。
The Atomium, an iconic landmark in
Brussels, represents the atomic structure of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
布鲁塞尔标志性建筑原子球塔象征着铁晶体结构放大了1650亿倍。
Brussels is renowned for its delicious Belgian chocolates, which can be found in numerous specialty shops throughout the city.
布鲁塞尔以美味的比利时巧克力而闻名，全城遍布多家特色巧克力店。
The Grand Place, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the central square of
Brussels and showcases stunning Gothic and Baroque architecture.
作为联合国教科文组织世界遗产的布鲁塞尔大广场是市中心广场，展现了壮观的哥特式和巴洛克建筑风格。
Brussels sprouts, a type of leafy green vegetable named after the city, are a popular side dish in many European cuisines.
以布鲁塞尔命名的布鲁塞尔芽甘蓝是一种叶菜类蔬菜，在许多欧洲菜肴中作为配菜广受欢迎。
The Manneken Pis, a small bronze statue of a urinating boy, is one of
Brussels' most famous tourist attractions and a symbol of the city's irreverent humor.
小于连铜像是一个正在撒尿的小男孩的青铜雕像，是布鲁塞尔最著名的旅游景点之一，也是城市不敬幽默的象征。
Brussels hosts several important international institutions, including NATO headquarters and the European Parliament.
布鲁塞尔是北约总部和欧洲议会等多个重要国际机构的所在地。
The Comic Strip Route in
Brussels features over 50 colorful murals depicting characters from Belgian comics, such as Tintin and the Smurfs.
布鲁塞尔漫画之路展示了超过50幅描绘比利时漫画人物（如丁丁和蓝精灵）的彩色壁画。
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in
Brussels house an extensive collection of works by Belgian and international artists, spanning from the 15th to the 21st century.
布鲁塞尔皇家美术博物馆收藏了大量比利时及国际艺术家的作品，时间跨度从15世纪至21世纪。
Brussels has a vibrant culinary scene, with moules-frites (mussels and fries) and Belgian waffles being among the must-try local specialties.
布鲁塞尔拥有生机勃勃的美食文化，贻贝配薯条（moules-frites）和比利时华夫饼是必尝的当地特色美食。
The airline plans to start resuming another two international routes from Shenzhen to Auckland, New Zealand, on June 17 and to Brussels, Belgium on June 21.
该航空公司计划于6月17日恢复深圳至新西兰奥克兰和6月21日至比利时布鲁塞尔的另外两条国际航线。
The round-trip flight service linking Shenzhen and Auckland will be offered twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and that a service linking Shenzhen and Brussels will be available on Wednesdays and Sundays, according to the company.
该公司表示，连接深圳和奥克兰的往返航班服务将在周二和周六提供两次，连接深圳与布鲁塞尔的航班服务将于周三和周日提供。
Among them is Carine Danblier, 51, a Belgian housewife based in Brussels, for whom shopping on AliExpress has proved to be nothing short of a treasure hunt.
其中一位是51岁的比利时家庭主妇卡琳·丹布莱尔，她住在布鲁塞尔，对她来说，在阿里速卖通上购物不亚于一场寻宝之旅。
"Chen Weihua in Brussels contributed to this story.
INNOVAX, a subsidiary of China's YangShengTang Group, and Xiamen University signed a global alliance partnership agreement on Friday with British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Wavre, Belgium, to develop a next-generation vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV).
- Chinese technology giant Huawei will launch its first commercial AI (artificial intelligence) chip and a new open-source AI computing framework on Friday, the company said.
A top executive of Chinese technology giant Huawei said here Thursday that the company has no cybersecurity risk management or mitigation mechanism in cooperation with the Chinese government.
The company only has such arrangements with governments of Britain, Canada, and Germany, said Catherine Chen, Huawei's board member and senior vice president, at a media roundtable in Brussels.
A top executive at China-headquartered technology giant Huawei has invoked the example of market rival Nokia's Chinese joint venture to say that the assessment of cybersecurity should not be based upon the location of mobile equipment vendors' headquarters.
Catherine Chen, Huawei's board member and senior vice president, told a media roundtable in Brussels on Thursday afternoon that its "equipment has components manufacturing and assembly done in a lot of countries around the world, like European countries, the United States, Japan and other Asian countries.
- Huawei board member and senior Vice President Catherine Chen said here on Thursday that the company's Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones and the company intends to continue to use Google's Android operating system for its smartphones.
The Hongmeng system has previously been widely reported in the media as a potential alternative to Android on smartphones, but Chen, when asked at a media roundtable in Brussels, was unequivocal that it is not designed for that.
- Huawei board member and senior vice president Catherine Chen said here on Thursday that the Chinese technology giant has signed over 50 5G commercial contracts across the world, of which 28 are from Europe.
-xa0The European Commission on Thursday fined US chipmaker Qualcomm 242 million euros for predatory pricing.
Brussels also ordered Qualcomm not to engage in such practices or practices with an equivalent object or effect in the future.
- Chinese technology firm ZTE opened its first European cybersecurity lab in Rome on Tuesday, which would allow source code review on its products from Italy.
In one of the strongest public remarks ever, a senior representative of China's tech company Huawei on Thursday night rebutted fear-mongering against the company.
In a ballroom in Brussels packed with well over 100 guests, mostly Europeans, Huawei's envoy to the European Union institutions launched into a robust defense of the Chinese technology giant.
In addition, the company will open a cyber security center in Brussels next month.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba inked an agreement with the federal government of Belgium on Wednesday to open its first Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) in Europe with the aim of promoting long-term cross-border trade.
The Financial Times said the record-breaking ruling was the most consequential decision Brussels had made in its eight-year antitrust battle with the United States company.
"Starting in Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona and London, we will take our brand on a rolling road show across Europe, starting in 2020 – to make sure we cover as much of the key cities of the continent from our first year on sale," Alain Visser, senior vice-president at Lynk & Co, said at the ongoing Auto China 2018 in Beijing.
The new London route joins three other long-haul routes that will get off the ground in March, including new Brussels and Madrid links with Shenzhen and a route between Beijing and Tijuana in Mexico.
Hainan Airlines will launch a direct flight connecting China's southern city of Shenzhen with the Belgian capital, Brussels.
Starting March 20, flights will leave Shenzhen for Brussels every Tuesday and Thursday.
Hainan Airlines has already launched direct flights to Brussels from Beijing and Shanghai.
In July last year, GPG has signed a contract with a Belgium company in Brussels to establish GPG's Europe subsidiary to expand its presence in the European Union.
BRUSSELS — China's carrier Hainan Airlines on Wednesday launched its first non-stop flight between Shanghai and Brussels.
A year ago we had the opportunity to sign an agreement; today we are making a commitment that will strengthen the links between China and Belgium," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, who was attending an inaugural ceremony of the flight in Brussels International Airport, told Xinhua.
As the second direct flight between China and Belgium, the service is an early morning one, departing Shanghai at 1:25 and arriving in Brussels at 7:30 (both local time).
The returning leg, meanwhile, departs Brussels just after midday at 12:30 and arrives the following morning in Shanghai at 5:30.
The airline said it will start non-stop services between Hong Kong and Brussels, Dublin and Copenhagen, the first of which will begin from March next year, in a bid to attract new trade and tourism to Hong Kong.
[Photo/Agencies]BRUSSELS - The European Union (EU) regulators approved the creation of a joint venture between China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) and Japan-based Asahi Kasei Corporation (AKC) on Wednesday, saying the case raised no competition concerns.
China is a very important and huge market and we really want to enter China, Gordon Blackman, CEO of Realco, a Belgian company and world leader in enzyme-based hygiene solutions, has told Xinhua recently.
- China will play an important role in the post-pandemic recovery of the global economy, Chairman of the China-Belgium Chamber of Commerce Bernard Dewit told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Jointly hosted by the China Europe International Business School and the EU-China Business Association, the 8th Europe Forum took place simultaneously in Brussels and Shanghai, and focused on the theme China-Europe Cooperation on Decarbonization.
"China and the EU share a mutual target of making the transformation to a green future, which has bright prospects for bilateral collaboration," said Wang Hongjian, a senior diplomat in the Chinese Mission to the EU, in his speech in Brussels.
- Although the global economy is facing mounting uncertainty and sluggish growth due to COVID-19, economic and trade cooperation between China and Europe, which maintains sound momentum based on complementarity and mutual benefit, can act as a counter-balancing force and help stabilize the world.
Any policy tools introduced and adopted by the European Union (EU) institutions shall "ensure legal certainty for the business community, and openness and fairness in the market," the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU (CCCEU) has said.
- China maintained its position as the European Union (EU)'s largest trading partner as of January, according to data published by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, on Thursday.
China remained the European Union (EU)'s top trading partner as of October, said Eurostat on Wednesday.
Claudia Vernotti, director of ChinaEU, a business-led association based in Brussels, said China is a huge market and home to one of the world's largest consumer bases in nearly all economic sectors.
Late in 2020, 500 kilograms of cocoa beans were shipped to Brussels, the world's premier city for chocolate, from the Xinglong area of Wanning on the eastern coast of Hainan.
Two new freight routes linking southwest China's Chongqing municipality with Brussels in Belgium and Bangalore in India were launched on Sunday, bringing the city's total international and regional freight routes to 103.
周日，两条连接中国西南部重庆市与比利时布鲁塞尔和印度班加罗尔的新货运路线开通，使该市的国际和地区货运路线总数达到103条。
Flights JL829/0 between Tokyo and Dalian, flights QV815/6 between Vientiane and Kunming, flights HU491/2 between Beijing and Brussels, and flights HU7975/6 between Beijing and Toronto are the second batch of "rewarded flights" following the introduction of a reward-and-suspension system by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on June 4.
In downtown Brussels, Kam Yuen Supermarket, the largest Asian supermarket in Belgium, local residents were bustling for Christmas shopping.
The ever closer bilateral trade ties have prompted Liu Jingrui, who owns the supermarket in Brussels, to come up with a new year wish.
China and the European Commission on Monday signed two milestone agreements on civil aviation, marking an important step to implement the consensuses reached by leaders from both sides during the China-EU Summit held last month.
The driver shortage has economic consequences, including a disrupted economy and higher prices for consumers, said Boris Blanche, managing director of the International Road Transport Union (IRU) in Brussels, which is a world road transportation organization.
Barbuat's remarks came on the sidelines of GS1's ongoing Global Forum in Brussels, Belgium, where more than 2,500 representatives of member organizations and companies have gathered, both offline and online, to celebrate the birth of the bar code and discuss ways to adopt its 2D avatars.
On Oct 28, scholars and officials from China and Belgium held their fourth annual science and technology exchange symposium in Brussels.
US tech giants, including Google's owner Alphabet and Apple, are drawing increasing attention from competition regulators in Brussels, London and elsewhere.
Yutong's T15E electric bus has taken home two Busworld Europe awards at the biennial trade show held in Brussels, Belgium.
The T15E series bus from the Chinese brand Yutong received a double award from Busworld Europe, both the "Label of Design Excellence" and the "Label of Ecological Excellence" on Saturday at the biennial trade show in Brussels.
As the auto industry worldwide transitions towards electromobility and the number of Chinese-made "new energy vehicles" sold globally is on a steady increase, more and more carmakers and dealers across Europe consider the competition from Chinese manufacturers an opportunity rather than a threat.
After a two-year hiatus, the Brussels Auto Show made a spectacular return on Jan 14.
However, many exhibitors asked by Xinhua at the Brussels Auto Show disagreed with this assertion.
SERES, an EV maker based in southwest China's Chongqing, officially launched its three-model SERES 5 e-SUVs (sports utility vehicles) at the Brussels Auto Show.
Brussels in Belgium is seeking deals on two more laws from the package in time for the United Nations climate negotiations in November, in a bid to show that despite a looming recession and soaring energy prices, the bloc is pressing ahead with its climate goals.
Arnie Richters, chairman of the industry group Platform for Electromobility, which is based in Brussels, said selling cars to Europeans is a "tough business, especially if your product isn't well known.
Chinese New Energy Vehicle manufacturers are speeding up launches of their latest models in overseas markets, as the global auto industry is turning to low-carbon.
After roughly one-month at sea, the vessel carrying the first batch of made-in-China Tesla Model 3 exporting to Europe has arrived at Zeebrugge port in Belgium on Thursday evening, according to the Automatic Identification System (AIS) data of the vessel.
The Audi plant in Brussels, Belgium, where the e-tron and e-tron Sportback are produced, became the first volume production plant in the premium segment worldwide to be certified as CO2-neutral in 2018.
The cities include Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Oslo, and Turin, just to name a few.
They include Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Oslo, and Turin in Italy.
The model, which has a range of 470 km on one charge, is now built in Audi's plant in Brussels, Belgium.
Ambassadors from EU countries are to expected to endorse the deal in Brussels on Wednesday－a deal officials touted as advancing the bloc's efforts to meet commitments under the Paris climate accord.
However, he has refrained from such a measure while Washington and Brussels undertake talks to cut other trade barriers.
Meanwhile in Brussels, EU Trade Commissioner Cecelia Malmstrom said the EU would "think out of the box" in a bid to find a solution, but she warned officials were preparing to respond with what she called "rebalancing measures" should the US follow through with the auto tariffs.
Among the new models are the first all-electric SUV -- the Audi e-tron -- which is expected to roll off the production belt in Brussels from the end of the year, according to German news agency DPA.
The European Union (EU) regulators gave the green light to a joint takeover by Chinese and German companies in auto sector Friday, saying the deal would not raise competition concerns.
Connexxion, a large public transport company in the Netherlands, has announced Thursday to order 21 units of China's BYD's brand new Midibus, which will make its debut at the six-day Busworld Europe (Kortrijk) in Belgium.
BRUSSELS — The European Commission gave the green light to a joint venture by Chinese and Canadian companies in the automotive sector on Thursday, saying it raised no competition concerns.
Reuters noted that the preliminary findings are the first time that Brussels has made anticompetitive charges against Apple.
Philippe de Backer, federal minister for telecom in Belgium, said in July that Huawei will not be banned from Belgium's 5G networks, according to reports from The Brussels Times.
Philippe de Backer, federal minister for telecom in Belgium, said on Tuesday that Huawei will not be banned from Belgium's 5G networks, according to reports from The Brussels Times.
Some European Union (EU) member states have taken discriminatory approaches in selecting 5G technology suppliers and Chinese companies in the EU are increasingly "perturbed," the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU said in a statement Thursday.
- Anders Ygeman, the Swedish Minister for Energy and Digital Development, saw no problem with equipment from Chinese tech giant Huawei being used in 5G deployment, according to a report by TT News Agency.
Iceland has allocated 5G frequencies, and one of its major mobile operators, Nova, has chosen to partner with Chinese company Huawei in 5G deployment, Icelandic media has reported.
Speaking at the company's Chinese New Year reception in Brussels last month, Liu said Huawei believes it can partner with Europe and help the latter to achieve its digital sovereignty and become the world's digital leader.
- Chinese technology firm Huawei marked its two decades in Europe with a reception on Tuesday, on the heel of positive regulatory decisions in the United Kingdom and European Union that defied pressure from the United States.
Brussels' move came just one day after the British government approved a limited role for Huawei in the country's 5G network construction.
Transfers and settlements in world trade are all made via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, an organization headquartered in Brussels, but many allege that it is actually controlled by the US.
On the same day, the EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act debuted in Brussels, Belgium, establishing a list of economic activities deemed to be environmentally sustainable, in line with the EU's targets for dealing with climate change challenges.
Jochen Biedermann, managing director of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers, a nonprofit organization registered in Brussels, Belgium, said every financial center aims to develop fintech ecosystems.
SWIFT is a neutral cooperative founded in Brussels in 1973.
Chinese officials and their counterparts from the European Union, as well as Canada, Japan and India, will meet in Brussels this month to consider how to streamline standards in this growing finance sector.
A First EU-China investment fund backed by the Juncker Plan has raised 600 million euros ($694.5 million) for mid-sized companies, the European Commission has said.
China does not control or dominate the decision-making of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the bank's president Jin Liqun reiterated here on Monday.