Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2020 shows a poster of the Year of the Rat stamp sheet at the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA), at the UN headquarters in New York. The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) has issued a special-event stamp sheet to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. 

Children have fun at a ski resort in Yantai City, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 12, 2020. 

The 2020 Spring Festival travel rush started on Jan. 10 and will last till Feb. 18.

In Hangzhou, this roasted meat is almost a must on the menu in the winter tradition.

The regional government has invested 95.7 billion yuan over the period in paving modern roads to 2,276 villages, according to the regional transport department.

Huang Xuhua, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the chief designer of the country's first-generation nuclear submarines.

The smartphone market, accounting for 95.6 percent of the total mobile phone shipments, registered a 4.7 percent decline with shipments of 372 million units in the whole year of 2019.

Consumption, investment, and net exports will contribute 4.4, 1.4, and 0.3 percentage points, respectively, to the GDP growth rate in 2020, CEFS said.

From a global perspective, China's move is nothing unusual as a large number of economies have introduced proactive monetary policies to boost growth.

Last year, a record 9.6 million people took flights at Macao International Airport, up 16 percent over the previous year's level.