Some 800 performers have already begun rehearsals at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as "Bird's Nest", for the opening ceremony, which will be directed by Zhang Yimou, who was also in charge of the Winter Olympics curtain-raiser.

The performance represents the most complete activity reserved in the sacrificial culture of China's Tu ethnic group.

National Indoor Stadium, a venue for Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, has been ready for the Paralympic Winter Games that will start on Mar. 4, 2022.

Shenzhen Customs has established "green channels" and rapid customs clearance mechanisms to ensure supplies for Hong Kong residents amid the recent COVID wave.

China has become a key strategic player on the international chessboard and its development models - both the political-economic and the organizational ones - are increasingly studied and taken as examples to follow.

The new route will speed up the exchanges in terms of economy, trade and culture between Shandong and German cities and attract more foreign investment for Shandong.

International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons is confident that the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics will set the standard for future Games and spread the message of the Paralympic Movement.

President Xi Jinping has underlined the need for China and African countries to strengthen unity and cooperation to cope with risks and challenges for common development, calling for joint building of a higher-level China-Africa community with a shared future.

China is likely to take a more proactive approach to align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, as well as to make more contributions to the formation of new international economic rules that reflect China's experiences.

A China-Europe joint space mission, Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), has successfully carried out the extension test of its payload magnetometer in Europe.