Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday stressed the importance of maintaining a sound China-France relationship to both countries' long-term development and its potential impact on the world.

Xi said that since China and Monaco established diplomatic relations more than 20 years ago, the two sides have always treated each other as equals with sincerity and friendship.

Mr. Bouée said China has entered on a new era of opening-up under the passed Foreign Investment Law.

Nobel Prize-winning laureate Michael Spence recognized the Chinese government as a pragmatic doer for its ability to engineer a miraculous transformation and navigate the economic situation.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by China has enjoyed energetic development and made remarkable achievements since it was proposed 5 years ago.

China's online retail sales exceeded 9 trillion yuan in 2018, topping the world for the 6th year in a row.

More than 4,000 of the "Empress Style" lipsticks were sold on Alibaba's marketplace Tmall within 24 hours.