China will make the most of government bonds to expand effective investment, enhance development momentum and promote steady economic growth, according to a decision made at the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday.

Shanghai will launch a nucleic acid testing campaign in areas west of the Huangpu River starting Friday amid the second phase of the city's closed-off management, an official told a press conference on Thursday.

Helping tourist attractions and cultural hot spots prevent coronavirus outbreaks remains the priority of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism with the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday approaching.

Both flight recorders, or black boxes, of the China Eastern Airlines passenger plane that crashed in south China on March 21 are being decoded, an aviation official said Thursday.

Aerial photo taken on March 30, 2022 shows farmers picking tea leaves at a tea garden in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. Traditionally, Chinese value tea made from the very first tea sprouts in spring that should be picked up before Qingming Festival, which falls on April 5 this year.

A farmer loosens soil with a machine in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, March 30, 2022.

Aerial photo taken on March 26, 2022 shows the Dagu bridge over the Haihe River in north China's Tianjin. 

The first phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Yoon Suk-yeol, president-elect of the Republic of Korea, underlines the importance of bilateral ties and shows that the two countries can explore cooperation despite their differences, experts say.

The service sector is an important part of the national economy, and small and micro-sized enterprises and individual businesses play an important role in the service sector.