China's basketball legend Yao Ming, also a promotion ambassador for Beijing 2022, shared his passion for winter sports and expressed hope to see people skating on Huangpu river in his hometown Shanghai.

China's economy expanded 8.1 percent year-on-year in 2021, bringing the average growth rate from 2020 to 2021 to 5.1 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.

China's population on the mainland has grown to 1.4126 billion by the end of last year, government data showed Monday.

China's top economic planner has released a notice aimed at boosting consumption as the Spring Festival holiday approaches while maintaining precise COVID-19 control.

China offered $1 million in cash and another 4,725 tonnes of rice to help the victims of Typhoon Rai in the Philippines, announced Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian on Wednesday.

Syria received more than 4,000 tons of rice from China on Sunday, the latest in a long line of humanitarian supplies China has provided to Syria to ease the Syrian people's suffering.

Six new baby Asian elephants have been spotted in succession recently in the Wild Elephant Valley in south Yunnan's Xishuangbanna, showing that the endangered animal's population is growing steadily in China.

The Yunnan railway network has serviced a total of 51.393 million passengers in the year 2021, an increase of 18.1% year on year.

Kunming issued a notice on the control of imported fruits on January 12.

According to the Department of Commerce of Hainan Province, Hainan's island departure duty-free sector maintained a rapid yearly growth rate of 84% in 2021, with a total sales of over 60 billion yuan (about $9.5 billion).

Chinese companies' patents granted in the United States surged last year, even as total patent awards in the US trended downward, showcasing Chinese companies' increasing innovation capabilities.

All venues for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou meet green building standards and will cut carbon dioxide emissions by around 320,000 tons, according to the State Council Information Office on Jan 13.

The fast-spreading Omicron variant should not be treated like influenza, because it can pose severe risks to unvaccinated people and its long-term effects on recovered patients still remain unclear.

Hainan Maritime Safety Administration issued a crew training license to Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, making it the first to obtain the license issued by the administration.

As part of the one-million-dose vaccine assistance to Myanmar, 746,800 doses of COVID-19 vaccine donated by Yunnan province were shipped from Kunming on January 11 to northern Myanmar.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Jan. 12 that the United States should reduce greenhouse gas emissions when asked to comment on a reportedly 6.2 percent year-on-year increase of emissions in the United States in 2021.

A Chinese mainland spokesperson said on Jan. 12 the doom of "Taiwan independence" is an irreversible historical trend.

Less than a month to go before Beijing 2022 begins, local citizens are embracing the Olympic spirit as they eagerly await the start of the sporting extravaganza.

Minasyan Anush, an Armenian who lives in north China's Tianjin Municipality, no longer feels anxious after receiving her negative test result for COVID-19.

The restrictive anti-Covid measures for the Zijinhuayuan community and other epidemic prevention areas began to lift their lockdowns and resumed to normal epidemic prevention on January 10, said a notice by health authorities in Jinghong city, south Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna prefecture.