President Xi Jinping said on Friday that China and India should leverage the high-level cultural and people-to-people exchanges mechanism to help build an even closer development partnership between the two countries.
China aims to triple the value of its professional sports industry to 2 trillion yuan ($290 billion) by 2025, while the country strives to build 100 prestigious sporting events and 100 domestic brands with independent intellectual property rights.
A total of 2.9 million Chinese will take the national entrance exam for postgraduate studies from Saturday to Monday, according to the Ministry of Education, 520,000 more than last year.
The UN General Assembly granted observer status on Thursday to two development banks, both headquartered in China, a move that experts believe will "promote their cooperation with the UN".
The national train ticket booking system should provide versions in foreign languages because the number of foreign travelers in China continues to grow, the China Consumers Association has proposed.
Over 413 million trips are expected to be made by rail during the upcoming 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, an 8.3 percent year-on-year increase, according to national railway authorities.
The Chinese torpedo reeled in by a Vietnamese fisherman this week was a training torpedo lost during a naval exercise earlier this month, the Ministry of National Defense said on Friday.
The Ministry of Commerce confirmed a plan for more trade talks with the United States in January, adding that Beijing continues to make positive gestures.
But UK university city hopes to attract visitors in smaller groups
President Xi Jinping called for joint efforts from China and Algeria to carry on the traditional friendship and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation to benefit the two peoples.
A decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria would greatly change the situation in the war-ravaged country, said analysts, and they expressed doubt as to whether the troops can be fully pulled back as the United States president has claimed.
Beijing urged Washington on Thursday to stop interfering in China's internal affairs by using Tibet autonomous region-related issues, and warned against the implementation of a new act of the US Congress.
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