Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Tuesday inspected the Zhangjiakou competition zone of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

China successfully launched a new mobile telecommunication satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province on Wednesday.

By the end of 2020, all 12 competition venues for Beijing 2022 were completed, despite the uncertainties and challenges brought by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

With Chinese-made vaccine shots reaching people in more countries, booming vaccine cooperation with China worldwide is injecting confidence into the global fight against the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.

No other country could rival China in the global supply chain.

People need to obtain a negative nucleic acid test result from within 7 days before arriving at their hometown, said Wang Bin, an official of the National Health Commission, during a news conference on Wednesday.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. surpassed 400,000 on Tuesday, the last full day of Donald Trump's presidency.