While extreme poverty has been eliminated from the Chinese countryside, it persists in much of the developing world. Indeed, global poverty is increasing, created daily by a world economy that is out of control.   

President Xi Jinping’s meeting in Beijing with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on June 14 – in the wake of China’s impressive brokering of a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia – reinforced the country’s role as a major promoter of global peace. 

FAW Jiefang is the truck subsidiary of China's leading automaker FAW Group, a state-owned enterprise founded in 1953 in Changchun. It is also dubbed the cradle of China's automotive industry. 

Lantian is home to more than 60,000 people in culinary service in over 30 countries and regions around the world. A secondary school specialized in chef training has been established here to bring more job opportunities to the locals, and to boost rural revitalization. 

Launched in 2022, the marine ecological protection and restoration project in Caofeidian of Tangshan is designed to cover an area of 636 hectares by building an ecosystem comprising shellfish, seaweeds and artificial reefs. Restored seaweed beds have so far covered 80 percent of the planned area.

China supports Russia in maintaining national stability and achieving development and prosperity, said a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Sunday.

The draft law on ensuring food security was submitted at the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, for the first review on Monday.

China's economy saw an overall recovery and improvement in the first half of this year, with GDP forecast to expand 6.2 percent year-on-year, The Paper reported Monday quoting a report released by the China Macroeconomy Forum.

Major Chinese cities including Beijing and Shanghai have seen a full recovery in the tourism and consumption sectors during the recent three-day Dragon Boat Festival holidays, with certain indicators exceeding that of 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to official data on Sunday.

The country's top legislature is mulling a plan to designate Aug 15 as National Ecology Day.