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. 

Covering an area of over 40 mu (about 26,667 square meters), the machinery plant-turned cultural block has been revitalized after its upgrading. 

China's economic growth is projected to moderate to 5.1 percent in 2022, after achieving 8 percent this year as predicted, according to a report published by the World Bank on Wednesday.

Despite several challenges, China will likely adopt more efficient fiscal and other measures to boost exports and improve overall trade as well as its structure in 2022, experts said.

Chinese students have shown gradual improvements in physical fitness as efforts have been made to ensure their time for physical activity, according to the Ministry of Education.

China's domestically developed monoclonal neutralizing antibody therapy for COVID-19 treatment could be used clinically in the country within weeks after it was included in the country's Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for COVID-19－adding a tool to the global arsenal against the coronavirus.

More than 80 percent of academic tutoring institutions have closed down or switched to other fields of business due to ongoing efforts to reduce the excessive academic burden on primary and middle school students, the Ministry of Education said on Tuesday.

Chinese health authorities have issued a circular to carry out a pilot program of applying traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapies to prevent myopia among children.