With an average age of over 65, a group of elderly tourists from Hong Kong arrived in Beijing on Monday, becoming the first Hong Kong tour group to Beijing after lifting of restrictions on travel between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions (SARs).

A spring campus job fair for graduates of 2023 was held here on Tuesday, during which about 2,000 jobs are offered by 70 employers.

A Chinese rescue team departed from Beijing for Türkiye on a chartered plane on Tuesday afternoon to join earthquake relief efforts in the country.

Schools will fully resume in-person classroom teaching and are making full preparations for the new semester as around 300 million students and teachers are about to return to school after the country downgraded the management of COVID-19 epidemic, Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan said on Monday.

President Xi Jinping has extended messages of sympathy to the leaders of Turkiye and Syria after the two nations were hit by two powerful earthquakes. At least 2,300 people reportedly were killed and thousands injured in the quakes by press time.

The Chinese government has activated its emergency humanitarian assistance mechanism to provide immediate aid to earthquake-hit Türkiye and Syria, according to Deng Boqing, deputy head of the China International Development Cooperation Agency, on Tuesday.

While setting the direction for China’s economic development in 2023, the Central Economic Work Conference will generate a far-reaching impact on the world economy as a whole.

President Xi’s New Year address bolsters the nation’s confidence in its restored vibrancy and strengthened solidarity when forging ahead on the new journey towards China’s modernization. 

The global tourism industry is expected to get a boost as China, one of the world's largest outbound tourism markets before the pandemic, resumed outbound group tours on Monday.

The goods volume handled via Ganqmod Port in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region totaled over 2.1 million tonnes in January, a year-on-year increase of 436.23 percent, according to the port's management commission.