President Xi has encouraged Howard Schultz, Starbucks Corporation's chairman emeritus, and the company to continue to play a positive role in advancing China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation and bilateral ties.

A year that was largely defined by the COVID-19 pandemic finally ended, but challenges still lie ahead for the global community to deal with.

China secured extraordinary performance in its foreign trade against headwinds in the past year thanks to the country's targeted measures to stabilize entities, market share, export orders and the industrial and supply chains.

Praising itself as a lighthouse country for democracy, the U.S. has always been acting as a role model in practicing democracy. It made up numerous myths of American democracy and is trying everything to sell them to other countries, even by force.

It is highly unlikely that China will experience a major resurgence of the novel coronavirus during the upcoming Spring Festival, given that the nation has created containment measures to quickly identify, isolate and control any possible outbreaks, a health official said.

A majority of lawmakers in the U.S. House on Wednesday voted for impeaching President Donald Trump over "incitement of insurrection."

The measures include offering subsidies and rewards, shopping vouchers, etc.