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Vice-Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday reaffirmed the mainland's goodwill and commitment to peaceful cross-Straits ties and emphasized stronger economic cooperation with Taiwan.
China and Malaysia launched a joint industrial park, which was hailed as a model project that will improve cooperation between the two countries.
China and Cambodia pledged to advance their already close ties, vowing to double their trade by 2017.
China's manufacturing activities rebounded to a year's peak in March, signaling a steady economic expansion aided by the warming-up market demand.
In his first visit to China since taking office, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti expressed a desire for more investment from China to spur new growth, as the current austerity measures are potentially damaging the country's economic growth.
China's Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), rose for four consecutive months to the highest level since October, indicating the economy is on path of steady growth.
China's central bank said it will ensure a reasonable level of social financing, a measure of funds raised by entities in the real economy, as it maintains a prudent monetary policy this year.
China's economic growth is expected to ease to 8.2 percent in the first quarter of this year from 8.9 percent in the last quarter of 2011, according to a report issued Saturday by the Bank of China.
China's foreign exchange regulator on Saturday raised its 2011 fourth-quarter current account surplus to $60.5 billion from the preliminary figure of $59.8 billion.
China will cut import duties on selected energy products and raw materials as well as consumer goods to boost purchases.
Customs officers in Tibet's capital of Lhasa seized smuggled goods worth more than 41 million yuan last year, including drugs, pangolin carcasses, ivory and pashmina wool harvested from endangered Tibetan antelopes.
Labor union authorities in south China's Guangzhou city have ordered Global Fortune 500 companies running business locally to put in place the collective salary negotiation system within the year.