Chinese President Xi Jinping Sunday delivered a New Year speech, vowing that China would resolutely carry out reform in 2018.

The Guard of Honor of the PLA on Monday morning began to conduct the stately ceremony of raising the national flag at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Sunday he is ready to join his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in consolidating political and strategic mutual trust.

Pyongyang is willing to talk with Seoul on its possible participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in the Republic of Korea.

The year 2018 will see the Chinese mainland unswervingly upholding the one-China principle and the 1992 Consensus and opposing all forms of "Taiwan independence."

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