As of July 19 (Beijing time), 55 countries had sent letters to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), expressing their support for the WHO’s report on a joint study with China on the tracing of COVID-19 origins and calling on the international community to respect science and resist political manipulation in the COVID-19 origin tracing. Photo taken on May 20, 2021 shows the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the Informal Economic Leaders' Retreat of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) via video link in Beijing, capital of China, July 16, 2021. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A four-point proposal laid out by Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Informal Economic Leaders' Retreat of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which was held Friday, has injected new impetus into Asia-Pacific cooperation and global economic recovery.
China called for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide and stressed the importance of improving the accessibility, affordability, and production of such vaccines in developing countries, including least developed countries, to save lives and end the pandemic as soon as possible. Workers produce masks to be exported at a factory in Ninghai neighborhood, Haizhou district, Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu province, Feb.
BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- A recent deal between Taiwan and mainland firms on purchases of BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines has given hope to the island's epidemic control. However, Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority and some Western media portrayed it as a move breaking through the so-called "mainland's blocking," completely disregarding the fact that the mainland has expressed willingness to help since the very onset of the island's serious outbreak in May.
