China is expected to make strenuous efforts to promote high-quality development of foreign trade during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), which will pivot on high-level opening-up, innovation and green development, said government officials and trade experts.

The 50th anniversary of "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" was commemorated in the U.S. city of Houston on Tuesday evening, highlighting the importance of promoting mutual understanding and friendship between China and the United States through sports.

The school, affiliated to East China Normal University in Shanghai, built the "eco-garden" on the rooftop of a 6-storey building a year ago. It has become invaluable for students developing practical agronomy skills during their extra-curricular hours. 

A rural house in north China's Hebei Province has been catapulted into fame recently. For one thing, it was not built brick by brick but constructed scan by scan with giant 3D printers.

He Kailuan, 45, is a local villager of Helyu Village in Wuxuan County of Guangxi. In 2008, He, who had been working in Guangdong for years, decided to return to his hometown to seek employment for better income, and finally made his "first bucket of gold" in construction industry. 

The Chinese mainland is planning and promoting the construction of transport infrastructure across the Taiwan Strait, said a Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday.

Taiwan companies received export orders from the mainland and Hong Kong worth over 14.3 billion U.S. dollars in October, an increase of 21.7 percent year on year, the island's economic affairs department said.

China's central bank Wednesday injected 100 billion yuan (about 15.6 billion U.S. dollars) into the financial system via reverse repos.

As the latest domestic carrier adopting the digital renminbi recently, Xiamen Airlines has charted more plans to expand such services in air travel-related scenarios.

The eastern Chinese city of Jinan announced Tuesday it would offer vouchers worth 10 million yuan (about 1.6 million U.S. dollars) to boost the city's consumption on new-energy vehicles (NEV).