In mid-January, the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planning body, pledged to take measures to boost consumption during the Spring Festival holiday. The NDRC has also been promoting the shopping season for the traditional Spring Festival and Lantern Festival along with Valentine's Day.

As liberalization of trade in services and openness in the services sector are often at the core of high-level international economic and trade rules, China is expected to further open up the sector to the rest of the world to achieve its goal of basically establishing a new system for higher-level opening up of the economy during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), industry experts said.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stressed increasing support for agricultural production to ensure that annual grain output continues to exceed 1.3 trillion jin (650 billion kg) this year.

Looking into 2022, China has a solid foundation for stable prices, after prices remained within an appropriate range throughout 2021, experts said.

The unparalleled passion ignited by the ongoing Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games has spurred China's consumer and capital markets in the starting days of the Year of the Tiger.

China's Gu Ailing qualified for the freeskiing women's slopestyle finals with a score of 79.38 points after two rounds qualification at Beijing.

While athletes from around the world are at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games vying for medals, the enthusiasm of ordinary people for Olympic goods is running high as well. People have been forming long queue in front of Gongmei Emporium on downtown Beijing's Wangfujing Street these days to purchase Bing Dwen Dwen toys, and other types of souvenirs like stamp and envelope.

Photo taken on Feb. 13, 2022 shows the snow scenery at the National Aquatics Centre in Beijing, capital of China. 

Photo taken on Feb. 12, 2022 shows corals and fish near Wuzhizhou Island of Sanya, south China's Hainan Province. Coral planting activities are held here in recent years to raise public awareness of marine environmental protection.