The friendship between the island country of Sri Lanka and China has been nurtured through the maritime Silk Road for centuries. Today, the two countries have close relations in economic and cultural fields.

So, it’s not in the interest of the ASEAN members to simply follow the US security agenda, for the country has threatened regional security with either QUAD or AUKUS cliques.

The concept of "micro-tourism" or "micro-vacation", which comes from the tourism industry, may not be new, but micro-tourism seems to have become a trend in recent years.

The more than two years of the pandemic prevention and control measures have also had some psychological effects on the people, increasing the need for better mental health services.

With a large population of unvaccinated seniors and an already-stretched healthcare workforce, Shanghai cannot afford to relax its COVID-19 measures as it battles a severe wave of the Omicron variant.

The Communist Party of China (CPC), the world's largest governing party, will convene its 20th national congress in the second half of the year.

It is equally important for local governments to ensure the measures have the minimum effect on economic activity under on-going pandemic.

The 2022 Boao Forum for Asia, "The World in COVID-19 and Beyond: Working Together for Global Development and Shared Future", is being held from April 20 to 22.

Based on its experiences in piloting the LMC in the past six years, the province could consider playing a more centric role in the sub-regional cooperative mechanism.

The annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia, to be held from Wednesday to Friday, at Boao, Hainan province.

China has also accelerated programs such as the Lancang-Mekong Sweet Spring project during the pandemic, aiming to ensure access to safe drinking water.

The United States is becoming a country where human rights are systemically violated, and it should earnestly reflect on how to address the root causes of the deteriorating human rights situation.

China's economy got off to a steady start in 2022 in the face of global challenges and a resurgence of COVID-19 cases.

The government's guidelines for accelerating the building of a unified national market are aimed at ending local protectionism.

In a recent guideline, the central authorities said China will promote the construction of the national energy market to ensure the secure supply of energy.

Some foreign media say China's economic growth target of about 5.5 percent is too high, and its economic prospects are unattainable.

With clusters of novel coronavirus infections emerging in certain places, the prevention and control measures being implemented have inconvenienced people to various extents.

Given the contagious Omicron variants, what might prove effective are mass-produced, low-cost small-molecule oral antiviral drugs.

China's space station will enter a new phase of application and development that will span more than 10 years after the completion of its construction this year.

Even if the challenge Shanghai is facing in its fight against the virus is tough, it can and will control the virus if it adheres to the tried and proved approach.

Foreign auto companies have expressed optimism about the Chinese market and consider China to be among their most important overseas markets.

Facing the continued threat of the pandemic, China has stuck to its dynamic zero-COVID policy in tackling resurgences to protect the lives and health of its people.

COVID-19 cases in Shanghai may be increasing but so are the measures to keep the infections in check. Residents in some areas have been under lockdown for weeks.

To form a unified domestic market will be of vital importance to the construction of a high-standard market system and high-level socialist market economic system.

Global grain and food prices have already been rising, with the prices of wheat, corn and soybean surging at a rapid pace.