Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region will invest 21.6 billion yuan ($3.4 billion) in its transportation and traffic sector this year, according to the region's traffic and transportation department.

China's video-sharing site TikTok has become one of the top sponsors of the Japanese professional football league (J. League), local reports said here on Wednesday.

A farmer waters flowers at a vegetable and flower planting base in Nantong Township of Minhou County, southeast China's Fujian Province, April 12, 2022. 

Shanghai has divided the whole city into areas belonging to three categories as part of targeted efforts to overcome a local COVID-19 resurgence. It has designated 7,624 closed-off management areas, 2,460 restrictive control areas and 7,565 prevention areas, according to a press conference held on Monday.

In recent years, Maona Village has been promoting rural tourism in a bid to help increase the incomes of local residents and expedite rural revitalization by combining its tourism with the Li ethnic minority culture and tea culture. 

China released an action plan recently on expanding the planting of soybean and oil crops at State-owned farms to ensure national food security and the supply of important agricultural products, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Authorities must give high priority to ensuring the orderly operation of key transportation networks and ports and ensure the unimpeded operation of domestic and international logistics, Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday, warning of mounting downward pressure facing the economy.

China is taking solid steps to accelerate the building of a unified domestic market that is efficient, rules-based, open and encourages fair competition amid headwinds and pressures from a complicated and grim external environment and resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases.

Experts called on Monday for macroeconomic policy moves to help stabilize market expectations and alleviate businesses' burdens in order to help them cope with any possible shocks brought by the rising prices of raw materials and weakening domestic demand.

Some 11 percent working-age Russians say they are interested in learning Chinese, representing a rise from 5 percent a year ago, according to a survey released on Monday.