China has heightened its efforts to provide city residents easy access to a variety of services within a 15-minute walk from home. It is expected to bolster and upgrade consumer buying while creating more jobs and improving the business environment, experts said.

Major cotton-producing counties in southern Xinjiang have started spring sowing and are expected to see the sowing peak around early April. Cotton sowing in northern Xinjiang is forecast to begin after April 5.

Over 100 events will be held, including forums, promotions, and matchmaking sessions, while over 60 reports, including those on consumer insights and consumption trends, will be released.

China's rapid recovery has brightened the regional and global economic outlook, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on Tuesday.

The upcoming visits to China by the leaders of France and the European Union are expected to usher in new opportunities to resume and spur substantive collaboration in more sectors in the post-pandemic era, as well as narrow their differences and revitalize unity on the peaceful resolution of global hot-spot issues.

The long-haul services of the Express Rail Link (XRL) Hong Kong Section fully resumed on Saturday, connecting the financial hub with destinations outside the neighboring Guangdong province.

Ahead of the Qingming Festival, tea farmers in Zigui County of Hubei are busy harvesting to produce the Mingqian (meaning "pre-Qingming") tea.

In order to further embrace the tourism boom brought by the blossoms, Heping District of Tianjin launched a series of events themed on Chinese flowering crabapple from March 31 to April 9, featuring float parade, light show and cultural fair.

The Central Bank of Brazil announced that the Chinese currency renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, has surpassed the euro to become the country's second-largest international reserve currency. 

The launch marks the first time that any privately developed, liquid-propellant carrier rocket in the world has succeeded in its first orbital attempt, which refers to a powered flight that places a craft in orbit in outer space.