Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday called for deepening military-civilian integration, while highlighting sci-tech innovation as the key to military upgrading.

Senior officials from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Sunday said the region has maintained a high-pressure crackdown to ensure stability as destabilizing factors remain.

The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is to accelerate its expansion into economies along the Belt and Road Initiative as China plans to launch six to eight BeiDou satellites this year.

China will send Yin Hengmin, its special representative on Latin American affairs, to attend the upcoming Chile meeting on Asia-Pacific economic integration.

A Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket arrived at a launch center on Saturday in preparation for the launch of China's first cargo spacecraft next month.

The company's CEO apologized to "anyone who takes any offense from the two designs in question," but nevertheless decided to keep the controversial T-shirts on the platform.