The horse given by French President Emmanuel Macron to President Xi Jinping is now in a 30-day quarantine before being sent to a horse ranch, according to the Beijing inspection and quarantine authority.
Growth of China's money supply shrank to the year's slowest level in December, the result of the country's tightened financial regulation and deleveraging process, but analysts said the money supply situation will improve this year.
Thanks to new growth engines in exports and robust momentum in imports, China's foreign trade hit more than $4 trillion last year, ending a two-year dip.
KUNMING--Tran Thi Vui, from Vietnam, runs a pho cuon (rice starch roll) restaurant in Hekou, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Just across a river - and the border - sits her hometown, Lao Cai.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies urged overseas companies on Friday to show respect for China's sovereignty and territorial integrity after more companies were found to have made mistakes like listing parts of the country such as Taiwan and Tibet as separate nations in public corporate communications.
Three days a week, reef protector Fu Mingyou, 42, travels to Xishazhou Island with three other workers after sailing 4 nautical miles from Zhaoshu Island in Hainan province. There, they collect garbage brought in by the tides, mainly plastic bags and glass bottles, in the surrounding waters.
The year's first round of smog began blanketing much of the nation's northern region on Friday and is forecast to last for a week, environmental officials said. Thirty-one cities including Beijing and Tianjin issued an orange alert, the second highest, on Friday.
Scholars, experts and business leaders involved in English-language education in China who gathered at an annual meeting of the industry in Beijing on Friday agreed to make joint efforts to boost the spread and passing along of traditional culture among the country's youth.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, urged continuous efforts to govern the Party with strict discipline and full implementation of the spirit of the Party's 19th National Congress.
One of the most frequently asked questions Qu Qingshan hears from foreign audiences is: With 89 million members, how does the Communist Party of China stay united?
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