The May Day travel rush in China signals the nation's stepped-up recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, with people thronging at railway stations, airports and tourist sites, criss-crossing provinces.

China's central bank is devising structural monetary policy tools that can provide direct support to the real economy in the pursuit of cutting carbon emissions.

Global investors' enthusiasm for the Chinese market seems unstoppable despite the COVID-19 pandemic, as the latest data showed that China successfully navigated the economic fallout in the turbulent year and became the top investment destination worldwide.

A total of 11.2 million Chinese children had benefited from the country's nutrition improvement program by the end of 2020, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

China saw the lowest direct economic loss and death tolls caused by marine disasters in the past decade, an official marine disaster report said.

After more than 700 unsuccessful attempts, Liao Xi and his colleagues developed a stainless steel precision strip that is just 0.02 mm thick. They then improved it to the level of 0.015 mm, or less than one-fifth of the thickness of a sheet of copy paper.

Zhang Shuhao, 42, quit his well-paid job three years ago to start an agriculture company with a few partners sharing the same vision at a mountainous village in Mudan Township, Tianshui City. 

Visitors watch a night performance in Yanzhou ancient city in Meicheng Township, Jiande City of east China's Zhejiang Province, on May 2, 2021. The ancient city received a total of 114,000 visitors on Saturday and Sunday.

A tourist draws picture at a resort in Jilin, northeast China's Jilin Province, May 1, 2021. Saturday marks the first day of China's five-day May Day holiday. 

Tourists pick mulberries at an orchard in Feixi County, east China's Anhui Province, April 30, 2021.