A media reception center in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, for non-accredited journalists during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics opened for online registration on Thursday.

China will do its best to deliver a splendid, exceptional and extraordinary Winter Olympics for the world, making all participants feel spring-like warmth and injecting more solidarity, confidence and strength into the world, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Thursday.

On Nov 9, a nuclear power project was launched in Haiyang, Shandong province, making it the first city in China to provide carbon-free winter heating capable of preventing 180,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year.

China will promote the green development of the postal and courier industry in 2022 with the wider application of recyclable express delivery packaging and new energy vehicles, in a bid to reduce pollution and carbon emissions, postal authorities said on Thursday.

An Airbus A350-900 arrives at the Baoan International Airport in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Jan. 6, 2022. China Southern Airlines launched two new Airbus A350-900 in Shenzhen on Thursday. The new aircraft will mainly serve domestic routes between Beijing Daxing International Airport, Shanghai and Chengdu.

Elderly people attend class of Erhu, which is referred to as the "Chinese Violin", at the Anqiu elderly university, in east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 30, 2021. 

China successfully conducted a transposition test of the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft using its space station's robotic arm Thursday morning.

Construction of 142 projects involving a total investment of 37.3 billion yuan (about 5.85 billion U.S. dollars) started Thursday in south China's Hainan free trade port.

The China-Laos Railway had operated 116 cargo trains via Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, as of Jan. 3, which transported more than 49,800 tonnes of goods worth about 676 million yuan (106 million U.S. dollars), the local customs said.

Beijing's gross domestic product in 2021 exceeded 4 trillion yuan ($630 billion), a year-on-year increase of 8.5 percent, said Chen Jining, the mayor of the capital, on Thursday at the fifth session of the 15th Beijing Municipal People's Congress.