Aerial photo taken on Dec. 23, 2021 shows the construction site of the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The 23rd Harbin Ice-Snow World will open to the public on Saturday. 

The stability and development of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has shown its better protection of human rights and also debunked fallacies fabricated by Western anti-China forces, experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said.

China hopes the U.S. side will create favorable conditions for the two nations to expand trade cooperation, said Gao Feng, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, on Thursday.

The foreign trade of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region surged 94.3 percent year on year in the first 11 months of 2021, according to data from local customs.

Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, launched its 1,000th China-Europe freight train on Wednesday morning, said the local transport authorities.

As of December 22, China's national carbon market has included 2,162 key emitters in the power generation industry in the first implementation period from January 1 to December 31, covering about 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. 

All districts, villages and communities in Xi'an, capital city of Shaanxi province, will implement closed management controls along with other preventive measures from Thursday, as the epidemic situation is still complex and grim, the city government said.

The whole city of Harbin downgraded to the low-risk category for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

Li Baofeng poses for a photo with her artwork in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Dec. 17, 2021. Li Baofeng, 56, is a paper cutting artist in Jilin. Combining traditional paper cutting technique with features of various painting forms like the Chinese painting, oil painting and printmaking, Li creates her own art style.