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China will take more concrete steps to continuously advance capital account opening-up and facilitate cross-border investment and financing, Zhu Hexin, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China and head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, said Wednesday. Zhu made the remarks while delivering a keynote speech at the 2026 Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai. He noted that China's capital account opening-up policies have been steadily improved in recent years and have ef

Theme parks in Shanghai are seeing a surge in visitors as the Dragon Boat Festival holiday and summer travel season approach, driven by students, family vacations, and a rise in inbound tourism. Fresh from finishing the national college entrance exam, many recent high school graduates are diving headfirst into the "fun economy," fueling a summer tourism boom as they make their way to theme parks and a host of other attractions. Data from travel platform Fliggy showed that boo

China's State Council has issued a plan on implementing the employment-first strategy during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), clarifying the objectives, key tasks and policy measures for promoting high-quality and full employment. The plan sets the goals for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, including maintaining overall employment stability, ensuring more adequate employment opportunities, and creating a fairer employment environment, while further optimizing employ

Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Grenada Yang Shu, met with Ron Redhead, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation on June 12, 2026. Ambassador Yang congratulated the minister on his new appointment and noted that China and Grenada posses great cooperation potential in training, high-tech enterprise exchanges and project cooperation. He added that China has always attached great importance to digital transform

Chinese content creator Li Ziqi has been appointed as a promotion ambassador for the 48th WorldSkills Competition, which will be held in Shanghai from September 22 to 27. The announcement was made jointly by the Shanghai Executive Committee for the competition and WorldSkills International on Sunday, marking the 100-day countdown to the event. Shanghai officials said Li's appointment aims to help tell the story of China's vocational skills to the world, encouraging more peopl

China's new regulations implementing the Mineral Resources Law took effect on Monday. The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) described them as a comprehensive and systematic legal framework for safeguarding mineral resources, and said they are significant in strengthening the country's capacity in this area, pledging more systematic measures going forward. Chinese experts noted that the strengthened legal framework is primarily aimed at improving the overall governance syste

Twenty rivers across China, mostly small and medium-sized, have experienced floods exceeding warning levels, following days of severe rainstorms and convective weather across southern China and parts of Northeast China, media reported on Monday, citing Ministry of Water Resources. The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) on Monday morning upgraded its emergency response for major meteorological disasters from Level IV for rainstorms to Level III for rainstorms and sever

China has recently released a new edition of the Good Clinical Practice for Drugs — a guideline designed to ensure the ethical and scientific conduct of clinical studies, aiming to strengthen the nation's research ecosystem and support innovation in biotechnology. The document, jointly issued by the National Medical Products Administration and three other government departments last week, is an update of the version that has been in effect since 2020. The new version is set t

China's courier sector saw steady growth in May, according to an industry index released by the State Post Bureau Monday. The express delivery development index stood at 472.9 in May, up 3.1 percent from the same period last year, according to the bureau. Included in the figures, the sub-index for development scale rose 7 percent year on year, while service quality figures remained unchanged from a year earlier. The sub-index for development capacity increased 3.3 percent. In

The deployment of a new 24-hour rapid intensification forecast model for typhoons and its 12-hour rapid intensification forecast service now offer China significantly enhanced forecasting performance, according to Shenzhen-based researchers in south China. The model, developed at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently completed operational deployment and real-world application testing at the country's National Meteorologic

The Caribbean could benefit from China’s Blue Silk Road initiative through expanded cooperation in tourism, marine research, infrastructure development, and climate resilience, according to experts speaking at a recent regional forum in Trinidad and Tobago. During the China-Caribbean Cooperation Amid a Changing World conference at the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, participants highlighted the growing potential of the blue economy, including shipping, fisheries, c

China's natural and mixed natural-cultural UNESCO World Heritage sites are outperforming their global peers in conservation, with roughly 90 percent receiving a "good" or higher rating from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, according to Chinese authorities. The figure is well above the global average of 61 percent and the Asian average of 68 percent, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration said in a media release on Saturday, which coincided with