This aerial photo taken on Oct. 1, 2023 shows a cruise ship harboring at a port in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province.
The data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday showed that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) for the first half of this year reached 59.3034 trillion yuan.
This aerial photo taken on Oct. 21, 2022 shows Daoyun Lou, an octagonal Tulou earthen building compound in Raoping County of Chaozhou, south China's Guangdong Province.
China is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. It has two national botanical gardens, the China National Botanical Garden in Beijing and the South China National Botanical Garden in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, which serve as the country's biodiversity conservation bases, reserves of strategic plant resources and important platforms for botany communication.