China's top market regulator said on Wednesday that the number of newly established market entities, including companies and the self-employed, witnessed a V-shaped recovery in the first half, as market confidence from various businesses continued to get a boost despite ongoing COVID-19 resurgences and a shaky external environment.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will continue to play a pivotal role as a bridge between the Chinese mainland and overseas markets to boost regional economic cooperation with Asia-Pacific countries, officials and business leaders said at the Hong Kong Summit 2022 on Wednesday.

On Aug 13, the first World Vocational College Skills Competition entered its final day. As the "Cross-border E-commerce" competition organized by Tianjin Business Vocational College wound down, all competitions in the Tianjin Division of this event came to a close.

Central departments are implementing additional measures to improve public nursery services and protect the rights of women workers to encourage people to have more children, with the aim of creating a healthily growing population.

Sailors from the Chinese and Russian navies have begun to compete in a combat skills contest in Qingdao, a port city in East China's Shandong province, on Wednesday.

Since the beginning of this year, the market price of consumer electronics control chips has continued to decline from three to double digits. But insiders believe it will not trigger a wide-ranging price reduction for new energy vehicles (NEVs).

A female giant panda cub weighing 270.4 grams became the world's heaviest captive panda newborn ever registered, a panda research center in southwest China's Sichuan Province said on Wednesday.

A visitor experiences a smart door lock at the 10th China Information Technology Expo in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Aug. 17, 2022. 

Li Changman, a 66 years old villager of Meidi Village, has learned the unique hollow noodle making skills since he was a teenager. He is the inheritor of Luonan handmade hallow noodle making skills which is listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage. He encouraged his child to learn this skill, and also taught the skills to villagers to increase their income.

The world's first remote sensing satellite designed for health research has been approved for development, and it is expected to be delivered in August 2023 and launched before October in China.