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Though the raging COVID-19 pandemic is casting a shadow over the economy of the Middle East, cooperation between China and Arab countries has shown resilience and vitality, offering hope of post-pandemic recovery in the region.
In a remote Sichuan province prefecture, villagers have been lifted out of poverty by improvements to transport infrastructure.
In coping with the disruptions from the COVID-19 epidemic and global economic slowdown, China's leadership has emphasized the need to steer the world's second-largest economy as if fighting a protracted war.
The fight against the epidemic is also a war in defense of human rights. China has mobilized the entire country to combat the virus, fully demonstrating its people-centered approach in human rights protection.
The China-developed ARJ21 regional jetliner has achieved continuous progress in commercial operations, according to developer the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC).
By 2019, the poverty-stricken population in Yunnan was about 442,000, making the province one of the main battlefields of China's nationwide poverty alleviation efforts, as the country races against time to eradicate absolute poverty by the end of this year.
Committed to ensuring food safety, China has redoubled efforts to bring safe and healthy food to dining tables in the country amid the global COVID-19 outbreak, rolling out measures to improve supervision of imported and home-produced food.
Beijing is well on track to fulfilling its promise to host a green and sustainable Winter Olympics in 2022, with the work done to date involving eco-friendly solutions and carefully drawn up plans for use of facilities after the Games.
As the rarely big floods inundated croplands and threatened the lives of people in vulnerable areas, China has been sparing no effort to win the fight against the disaster, with massive mobilization, evacuations and a top-level emergency response in several hard-hit provinces.
Five years have passed since Beijing's successful bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympiad, and already, the upcoming Games are leaving a legacy, both for the host country and for the wider Olympic movement.
At a time when the global economic recovery was complicated by the unabated COVID-19 pandemic and anti-globalization sentiment, China brought to the table a new development pattern.
The northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, which used to be a summer resort full of tourists, became a quiet place these days after a 58-year-old man working with a local seafood company tested positive for COVID-19 one week ago.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, China has waged a whole-of-nation "people's war" against the virus.
The Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei province, discharges excess floodwater on Monday. The dam has played a key role in flood relief efforts in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
China's indigenously-developed AG600 large amphibious aircraft succeeded in its maiden flight over sea on Sunday morning in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, its developer announced.
Preparations are in full swing for the third China International Import Expo (CIIE), scheduled to open in early November this year. The event is likely to instil confidence in the business environment as COVID-19 clobbers the global economy.
Entrepreneurs have drawn inspiration from President Xi Jinping's recent interaction with executives at a symposium, gaining added confidence to make up for the losses caused by COVID-19 and strive for positive economic development throughout the year.
China launched a Mars probe on Thursday, designed to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, taking the first step in its planetary exploration of the solar system.
Over 2,500 flood-related risks have occurred in the five provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and all of them have been effectively handled.
Yu Zhongdai, a member of the Communist Party of China and deputy head of the Xingang township government, led locals to help contain the floods on the Dongsheng South Embankment facing Poyang Lake.
The country's financial system has had to think outside the box to figure out who needs help and, given the epidemic-induced hardship for companies, what could be done to help them access life-saving funds.
This year was designated as the China-ASEAN Year of Digital Economy Cooperation, and the COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of digital economy in economic and social recovery, job creation and improving people's well-being.
Dongxiang is one of China's most impoverished counties due to its inhospitable climate and sterile land. About 87 percent of the county's 300,000 residents are from the Dongxiang ethnic group whose indigenous language traditionally had no written form.
Beijing will lower its emergency response to COVID-19 from level II to III starting Monday, an official of the Beijing municipal government said Sunday.
Beijing has effectively controlled its recent outbreak of COVID-19 infections related to a major wholesale market as the city reported no new confirmed cases for the eighth consecutive day on Monday.
China is bracing for serious flooding in the area of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, as water level at the country's largest freshwater lake remains high above alert level, amid ongoing torrential rains that have caused widespread flooding along the Yangtze River basin.
This year, people living in regions of the Three Gorges Project, the world's largest hydropower project, witnessed a historic achievement in bidding farewell to poverty.
More than 80 households from Zhaojue county's Atuleer village had started moving to new apartments in the county seat earlier in May, as part of latest efforts in a nationwide poverty alleviation drive.
To secure jobs for new graduates, China has vowed to give priority to their steady employment, redoubling efforts to enhance employment services and expanding job opportunities to help them pull through the difficult times.
In Qinghai's Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture, a major production area of caterpillar fungus, the fungus gold rush is undergoing quiet changes.