China's total rice growing area will remain above 30 million hectares, while annual production will be maintained above 200 million metric tons, said Han Changfu, minister of agriculture and rural affairs.

China's third-quarter economic growth has cheered up overseas professionals and observers, who believe that the country's growth is picking up steam and will inspire more confidence in the global economic recovery.

Consumption is gaining traction and injecting impetus into China's economic recovery, as the country's retail sales grew by 0.9 percent on a yearly basis in the third quarter, the first positive quarterly growth this year.

Good news continued to come in the fight against the recent coronavirus outbreak in Qingdao, Shandong province, as three of 13 patients were eligible for discharge from the hospital, a senior city official said on Tuesday.

Four domestic COVID-19 experimental vaccines undergoing third-stage clinical trials overseas have inoculated about 60,000 volunteers, an official with the Ministry of Science and Technology said on Tuesday.

China will ban the production of mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometers nationwide starting in 2026, according to a recent statement issued by National Medical Products Administration.

Manas introduced Suffolk sheep in 1989. The county has accumulated experience on sheep breeding and improved the quality of its mutton products. In recent years, local people have promoted their high-quality mutton products in the market in Beijing and Shanghai via e-commerce platform to boost villagers' income.

U.S. carmaker Tesla announced on Monday that it would export the made-in-China Model 3 to Europe, marking another important milestone for its Shanghai Gigafactory. The first batch of exported sedans will leave Shanghai next Tuesday and arrive at the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium at the end of November before being sold in European countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland.

An expressway linking Nanchuan District and Liangjiang New Area in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality was put into operation on Tuesday. The 77-kilometer-long expressway started its construction in 2016. 

The nation's job market has remained stable with its unemployment rate continuing to fall in past few months, said a senior official of the National Bureau of Statistics at a conference organized by the State Council Information Office on Monday.