Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday shared with the world China's experience in advancing biodiversity governance and ecological progress.

Chinese tourists are expected to make 600 million domestic trips during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday from Oct. 1 to 8, said a report released by the country's major online travel agency Trip.com Group.

No new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were reported Wednesday across the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said Thursday.

China will share COVID-19 vaccines with the world at a fair and reasonable price, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Wednesday.

China's purchasing managers index figures continued to rise in September, showing that the country's economy is in full recovery, experts said on Wednesday.

Though Yunnan accounts for only 4.1 percent of China's land area, the province is yet deemed "Kingdom of Animals and Plants" and "Gene Bank of Species" because it harbors more than 50 percent of the country's biological species. In recent years, China has made significant achievements in ecological conservation with the enforcement of laws, policies and other measures, such as the construction of national parks and a ban on forest logging. Yunnan has established 166 nature reserves at different levels, protecting about 90 percent of the typical ecosystem and 85 percent of important species, including Asian elephants and Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys. 

Children take part in a painting competition with their parents during a harvest festival held to welcome China's National Day holiday in Longxi Village, Yiwu City of east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 30, 2020.

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region created some 2 million new jobs for its residents from 2014-19. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012, Xinjiang has been vigorously implementing employment projects and enhanced vocational training, and has been expanding employment channels and capacity. From 2014-19, the total number of people employed in Xinjiang rose from 11.35 million to 13.3 million, according to a white paper on employment and labor rights in Xinjiang published by the State Council Information Office recently. More and more rural laborers are being employed in cities after skill training. The average annual increase in urban employment is more than 471,200 people, with 148,000 in southern Xinjiang, accounting for 31.4 percent. 

Community leaders and anti-racism activists are encouraging East and Southeast Asians (ESEA) who are victims of racist or hate crime to report to police, while CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) calls on communities to have faith in the system.

A series of light and projection shows take place in Chengdu every night from Sept. 29 to Oct. 10.