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China boosts trade with Belt and Road countries, expands imports

China will further bolster trade and investments with countries along the Belt and Road, among other efforts to facilitate foreign trade against pandemic challenges, o

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MOFCOM: China will further open up to meet challenges amid COVID-19

China will speed up the implementation of its new foreign investment law and the construction of the free trade port in Hainan Province in order to meet huge challenges in sourcing foreign capital li

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China to expand opening-up despite COVID-19 impact: commerce minister

China will continue to broaden market access and open up its service sector as part of efforts to keep foreign investment stable amid the COVID-19 epidemic, the countr

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Will the pandemic reaffirm the dollar's reserve currency dominance?

The coronavirus pandemic has spooked the global financial markets and created a skyrocketing demand for the U.S. dollar as investors rush to safety. Some consider the dollar's reserve currency sta

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NASA’s ‘Artemis Accords’ set forth new and old rules for outer space cooperation

NASA’s plan to return to the Moon is ambitious enough on its own, but the agency is aiming to modernize international cooperation in space in the process. Today it published a summary of the 

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Belt and Road Initiative is a beacon for gloomy global recovery

Containers at the Lianyungang Port in Lianyungang City, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 14, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Huang Yongfu is an economic affairs commentator. After his PhD, he

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How will post-lockdown tourism work in Europe?

03:31 Every day lost to COVID-19 for Europe's tourism hotspots matters.Travel restrictions so necessary to control the pandemic have savaged an industry which usually delivers 10 perce

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France's COVID-19 deaths rise by 351 to 27,425

France on Thursday reported 351 new coronavirus-related deaths, a significant increase over the 83 fatalities registered a day earlier, while the number of patients hospitalized or admitted to inten

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How is China spurring on foreign trade via its Five-Year Plans?

The Five-Year Plans for National Economic and Social Development, or the Five-Year Plans (FYP) in short, are a series of initiatives issued since 1953 in China to map the direction of future developm

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Beijing 2022 venue construction in Yanqing District on track

00:38 Venue construction for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is on track as the National Sliding Center and the National Alpine Skiing Center in Yanqing district will be completed thi

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Spotlight: France cautiously starts COVID-19 lockdown exit

Nearly two months after ordering its 67 million population to stay home to stem the coronavirus outbreak, France on Monday cautiously started a gradual process to retu

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Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, France, UAE discuss latest developments in Eastern Mediterranean

Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) discussed on Monday the latest developments in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as a number of crises

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French to return to shops and hair salons as lockdown lifted

Millions of French people are set to cautiously emerge from one of Europe's strictest lockdowns on Monday, once more able to engage in everyday activities that have become unexpectedly precious, such

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Seven viral futures

The entire world has run smack into the biggest economic wall since the Great Depression, and the US stock market is … above where it was this time last year. American tech megacorns like AirBNB

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'I never imagined to be connected with China in such a way'

04:08 Editor's note: Two months after the national lockdown, Italy reopened on May 4. With COVID-19 death toll at 25,000, the country was once facing its "darkest hour." Amid the COVID

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Chinese, UK universities to jointly carry out One-Health research

Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Edinburgh on Friday signed a cooperation framework agreement online on the establishment of a "One-Health" research

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Beijing Winter Olympics color system and dynamic graphics released

The color system and core graphics of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games were officially released on Friday. Noticeably, the core graphics are also the first dynamic graphics des