The Organizing Committee for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games was inaugurated on Tuesday in the Chinese capital.
It was good to get some winter sunshine (although it is summer there) in Johannesburg earlier this month.
Item from Dec 16, 1993, in China Daily: A toy products trader gets two youngsters fired up with a toy train in Fengtai county, Anhui province. ... China has become the biggest supplier of toys to the United States, the world's largest market.
Many Chinese heading to the US have expressed concerns about expenses amid the depreciation of the yuan against the dollar.
Second-tier cities in China are gaining bigger international portfolios, as the country's top leadership hopes local authorities will be more proactive in pushing through the Belt and Road Initiative, experts said.
Leaders of the six member states attending the 14th SCO meeting in Zhengzhou issued a joint statement on Tuesday supporting regional economic cooperation.
Former NBA All-Star guard Stephon Marbury, who said he had already made the commitment to "embrace" China as his home, was thrilled to learn recently that his application for a Chinese "green card" was approved.
Chinese leaders, meeting ahead of two agenda-setting conferences, pledged on Monday to keep the country's economic growth rate within a "reasonable range" next year.
China will provide better family planning services after the scrapping of the one-child policy, the top leadership decided on Monday.
China and the United Arab Emirates agreed on Monday to set up a major investment cooperation fund, reportedly worth $10 billion, to benefit third parties and the two countries themselves.