The implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative is expected to get another boost as senior officials of Switzerland, a leading world financial center, and the World Bank vowed to strengthen cooperation with China on the massive project.
As astronauts continue to break records for time spent in space, and manned Mars exploration is under discussion, scientists in China have begun a groundbreaking study to determine whether humans can reproduce in space.
President Xi Jinping has called on the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives to continue international exchanges and to make new contributions to world peace and development, as the organization celebrates the 120th birthday of one of its founders.
The significance of the China-Russia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Coordination is "being further highlighted", given the current complicated and frequently changing international situation, top legislator Zhang Dejiang said.
China has launched a thorough investigation into the pollution of soil throughout the country and will release the final results to the public later, top environmental protection officials said on Friday.
UNITED NATIONS - "If you can speak Chinese and can write Chinese characters, you can get to know China better," Stephen A. Orlins, an expert on US-China relations, said on Thursday.
Premier Li Keqiang called for rebuilding shantytowns to help improve local residents' welfare and make a stable and healthy real estate market, during a visit to Shandong province on Friday.
Although China has thoroughly ended its former reliance on the organs of executed prisoners as a source for transplant organs, rumors are still being spread, often to promote a political agenda, according to a foreign expert in the field.
Beijing voiced its strong opposition on Friday after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the infamous Yasukuni Shrine and a number of Japanese politicians also visited the shrine.
China's grain output is expected to decline by 1 percent this year, and its agricultural trade deficit will decrease to about $35 billion, according to a new book compiled by a government think tank.
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