China has urged the United States to adopt rational and pragmatic economic and trade policies to meet it halfway to support the healthy and stable growth of bilateral economic and trade relations, the Ministry of Commerce said.

China's achievements in poverty reduction have set an example for the rest of the world, said a report released on Thursday.

China has fully vaccinated 88.11 percent of its population against COVID-19 as of Thursday, a Chinese health official said Friday.

China's atmospheric environment saw improvement in 2021 as the country continued its efforts to ensure air quality, a meteorological official said Friday.

A Chinese health official on Friday noted that China is facing a severe and complicated anti-epidemic situation.

Photo taken on March 31, 2022 shows ice on the Songhua River in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. As the temperature rises, rivers in Heilongjiang are entering the ice flood season.

Photo taken at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on March 31, 2022 shows a simulation image of the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft. China's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft entered the Earth's atmosphere under ground control at 6:40 p.m. Beijing Time, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Thursday.

Volunteers deliver parcels to a residential community under closed-off management in Minhang District of east China's Shanghai, March 31, 2022. Shanghai will launch a nucleic acid testing campaign in areas west of the Huangpu River starting Friday amid the second phase of the city's closed-off management.

Greater efforts will be made in training intellectual property specialists, the most fundamental, core and critical element in helping China become a global center for intellectual property rights, an official from the country's top IPR regulator has said, adding that the country plans to achieve the goal of having more than 1 million IP professionals by 2025.

Market mavens said on Wednesday that China's A-share investors had welcomed Tuesday's guideline from the country's leadership to improve the social credit system in order to make the overall capital market healthy and facilitate high-quality economic development.