President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with Chinese diplomatic envoys to foreign countries, who are in Beijing to attend a work conference for overseas envoys.

China has received much attention from the world for its economic vitality and resilience amid its economic and trade frictions with the US.

China is mulling a balanced approach that would help keep economic growth at a stable range in the second half of the year, while avoiding opening the floodgates of stimulus.

China will expand preferential immigration and entry policies to attract more foreign talent to more free trade zones across the country starting Aug.1.

China consumed over 70 million tons of watermelon last year, with the per capita watermelon consumption exceeding 50 kilograms (kg), as indicated by the FAO figures.

Recent data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that China's GDP grew by 6.3 percent year-on-year to 45.1 trillion yuan (about $6.6 trillion) in the first half of 2019.

Auto consumption is an integral part of China’s consumption market, and the country has been striving to make the whole life cycle of vehicles greener, from new-car business to the second-hand market and scrap.