China will complete the necessary domestic approval procedures for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement within six months, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.

China was the only major economy in the world to achieve positive goods trade growth in 2020, with its foreign trade beating expectations and registering a historic high, government officials said on Thursday.

China's top economic planner said Friday that the prevention and control of COVID-19 will be the top priority in the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush.

Two South China tiger cubs were born in October in China's primary zoo housing the rare species, bringing the total number of such tigers in the zoo to 50, the zoo said Friday.

Two members of the international expert team of the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to fly from Singapore to China's Wuhan on Thursday have been tested positive for IgM antibodies, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.

Authorities in north China's Tianjin Municipality are tracing ice cream contaminated with coronavirus after three samples tested positive for the virus.

Facing the onslaught of COVID-19 pandemic, authorities in Yiwu City, dubbed "world supermarket," manage to strick a good balance between coordinated epidemic prevention and control and smooth economic growth. According to customs data, the city's total value of foreign trade hit 285.99 billion yuan (about 42.69 billion U.S. dollars) in January-November, 2020, or up by 6.9 percent year-on-year.

Firefighters stick to their post and keep training despite the freezing weather in Mohe, the northernmost city in China, where the temperature is often below minus 40 degrees Celsius in winter. 

Wuqing is a bicycle production and distribution center in northern China. Tianjin Golden Wheel Group, a leading bicycle enterprise founded in 1987, has an annual production capacity of around 80,000 e-bikes and 2 million bicycles, and the products are exported to more than 120 countries and regions around the world. 

Construction of a new rail-road bridge over the Yangtze River, China's longest, started Wednesday in Ma'anshan City, east China's Anhui Province.