Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Monday inspected the preparatory work of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing.

China's foreign trade with the EU totaled 4.05 trillion yuan ($620 billion) in the first 11 months of 2020, an uptick of 4.7 percent from a year ago, making China the largest trading partner of the EU.

China’s GDP in 2020 expanded 2.3 percent. The total GDP has topped 100 trillion yuan ($15.4 trillion) for the first time.

Although the epidemic has hindered economic globalization, the general trend toward openness and cooperation among countries remains unchanged.

With their geographical advantage, overseas warehouses have aided Chinese companies to boost sales of their products.

"I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure," he said.

The entire U.S. Capitol complex was on lockdown Monday morning after a fire was reported several blocks away, Capitol Police said in a letter to lawmakers.