Xi will also attend the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

"So-called forced labor in Xinjiang is totally the lie of the century," said spokesman Xu Guixiang at a recent online news conference. "It's an upgrade of the U.S.' crackdown on China under the pretext of human rights."

At the event this year, entrepreneurs and economists said that the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation represented by artificial intelligence will reconstruct the global innovation map and reshape the global economic structure.

In the first five months of the year, China's mobile phone shipments dropped 27.1 percent year on year to 108 million units, of which 79.7 percent were 5G phones.

All teachers, students and their parents are required to take nucleic acid tests within 48 hours before going back to school on Monday. Students will take the tests twice a week during school time afterward.

State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China's and India's common interests far outweigh their differences and the two countries should support rather than undermine each other, as he met with Pradeep Kumar Rawat, India's new ambassador to Beijing.

China on Thursday paid in full its assessments for the 12 UN peacekeeping operations for fiscal year 2021/2022, said the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

China's Beijing Stock Exchange (BSE) embraced the listing of the 100th firm Friday as the newly established bourse attracts innovative smaller enterprises with its listing efficiency and smooth operation.

The Chinese currency renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, has retained its position as the fifth most active currency for global payments by value in May with a larger share, said the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a global provider of financial messaging services.