He emphasized that the year 2021 marks the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, with the country embarking on a new journey of fully building a modern socialist country.

China will further open up to the outside world and absorb all the advanced scientific ideas and research methods that are worth learning, Li said, adding that more foreign experts are welcome to work in the country.

Less than two months later, however, the production, transportation, and distribution of the vaccines have already been teetering in disarray.

Climate change concerns the welfare of people around the world and mankind’s future.

A video mocking BBC tricks used to distort news through oblique shooting and post-production has gone viral on Chinese social media and won thumbs-up among Chinese netizens.

Official data showed that paid-in foreign direct investment (FDI) into the island province surged 100.7 percent year-on-year to a record high of $3.03 billion in 2020.

China's tax and administrative fee cuts hit a record high in 2020, Zhu noted, who believes that such taxation policies played a significant role in China's steady GDP growth in 2020.