The People's Bank of China maintained the one-year LPR at 3.85 percent and the five-year or longer tenure LPR, which pertains to mortgage loan rates, at 4.65 percent on Monday.

A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in London said that recently the kingdom has repeatedly made wrong remarks on the national security law for the HKSAR to interfere in China's internal affairs.

Great efforts have been made in recent years to restore the ecological environment around the lake. 

Moviegoers wearing masks are seen in a screening hall at Tianshan Cinema in Shanghai on July 20, 2020, almost six months after its closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Parks in Beijing see more visitors as the city lowered its level of emergency response to COVID-19 from Level II to Level III on Monday.

Street peddlers are invited to “reopen their businesses” in streets as the government says “Street-store economy is bringing cities back to life” in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, despite China sees a GDP growth rate at 3.2% in the second quarter of 2020, some concern the role of street market plays in driving the whole economy is limited.

All domestically-transmitted cases were reported in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the National Health Commission said in its daily report.

The level at the Tangxi hydrological station of Chaohu Lake reached 12.77 meters on Sunday, higher than the warning levels, according to the provincial flood control authorities.

The exhibition shows how the Old Summer Palace, construction of which began in 1707 in Beijing, flourished before it was burned down and its sculptures looted by the Anglo-French allied forces during the Second Opium War.