In stark contrast to many major countries around the world that have hiked their defense spending by a big margin in recent years, China's defense budget will grow by 7.2 percent in 2023, only 0.1 of a percentage point up from that of last year.

The modernization of a country with such a huge population will completely rewrite the landscape of global modernization. It would be the most remarkable modernization in the history of human development.

China has demonstrated that "socialism with Chinese characteristics" can bring huge economic and social benefits to the Chinese people and those beyond.

The two-day G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held in India on March 1 and 2, with the participation of representatives of 40 countries and international organizations including foreign ministers of China, Russia as well as US secretary of state.

China's modernization and ongoing development does not merely lift the Chinese people's living standards and their prosperity, but also raises global prosperity.

Given its paramount importance to high-quality development as a defining feature of the Chinese path to modernization, high-standard opening-up will be a focus of the annual gatherings of the nation's top legislature and political advisory body that will start this weekend.

After US' veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published his report "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline" on February 8, he encountered an even more abnormal anomaly.

After the successful conclusion of the 20th National Congress of CPC, China is again going to hold an important event, i.e., the two sessions.

After experiencing multiple ups and downs, the country's economy continued to withstand the downward pressures and scored 3-percent growth year on year in 2022, said the communique released on the website of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

It is understandable to see Tourism Australia's expectation for the return of Chinese visitors. In 2019, tourism in Australia accounted for 3.1 percent of the national GDP, contributing $60.8 billion to the Australian economy.

The Chinese leadership has placed the new development pattern high on the country's policy agenda, according to which the domestic market is taken as the country's economic mainstay with domestic and foreign markets complementing each other.

During the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, last September, the two heads of state held a bilateral meeting and announced to upgrade China-Belarus relations to an all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership.

As the Chinese province that is most adjacent to Cambodia, Yunnan should make full use of its favorable location and play a key role in on-land connectivity with Cambodia.

China's economy is projected to expand 5.2 percent this year according to the International Monetary Fund — compared with only 3 percent last year — as mobility and economic activities pick up.

Uncertainty remains concerning whether the global economy can reduce the risk of recession, and embark on the road to recovery. In other words, where it goes still depends on the choices of various actors.

An upcoming series of visits to Beijing by European leaders will send signals of solidarity and cooperation between China and the European Union, adding positive energy to world peace, stability and sustainable development, officials and observers said.

International economic experts has upgraded thier expectations for the Chinese growth petential.

Russia has suspended its participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, saying that Washington must create the conditions for the resumption of the full functioning of the Treaty and, accordingly, "comprehensively ensuring its viability".

On February 24, 2022, when the first gunshot at the Russia-Ukraine border shattered tranquility, most people did not anticipate that it would evolve into the largest military conflict on the European continent since World War II.