A foreign ministry spokesperson on Dec 6 urged the United States to stop hyping up the so-called "diplomatic boycott" of the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying that China will take countermeasures if the U.S. insists to do so.

Based on different grades, classes and dormitories, schools in Longchuan county, Dehong prefecture of west Yunnan province rearranged students’ schedules to ensure their daily study and life.

The emergence of Omicron has somehow vindicated what China has been doing to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic, a Bloomberg report said recently.

The first cold-chain train on the 1,035-km China-Laos Railway left China's Kunming for Laos Saturday, loaded with vegetables in refrigerated containers.

Nantawat Samakom, a Thai food trader based in a mall in downtown Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, has new expectations as the China-Laos Railway started operation on Dec. 5.

"The China-Laos Railway will make travel much easier, and more will come to our park," said He Taisong, marketing manager of the Mojiang tropic of cancer park in southwest Yunnan’s Pu’er city.

The Kanglang fish, or Anabarilius graham, was included in the list of the top 10 Chinese aquatic germplasm resources, said the Ministry of Agriculture at a press conference on November 23.

“More than 63 billion kWh of power has been traded across the borders between Yunnan and countries in the Mekong river basin as of October this year, and clean energy accounted for more than 90%,” said Cheng Jun, deputy general manager of the Yunnan International Company, China Southern Power Grid.

The sunshine is still burning in a railing base in the northern outskirts of Lao capital Vientiane, but what Sida Phengphongsawanh, a trainee for China-Laos railway train driver, cares, is the jingle of the train maintenance which sounds like music.

New promotional incentives for adopting the new energy vehicle (NEV) taxis will be given for the replacement of fuel taxis in Kunming, capital city of Yunnan province, said Zhang Xinghu, director of the Kunming Taxi Administration Bureau.

Staring on the morning of December 2, train tickets for the Yuxi-Mohan section of the China-Laos Railway in Yunnan southwest China’s Yunnan province was available, said China Railway Kunming Group.

The Lao government on Dec. 1 awarded the First-class Development Medal to the China State Railway Group and the First-class Labour Medal to the Laos-China Railway Co. Ltd. (LCRC), a joint venture based in Laos, for building the cross-border railway.

China on Dec. 1 expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent remarks on Taiwan.

The "2021 Lancang-Mekong TV Week -- the National Theme Day of Laos" opened on Dec. 1 Wednesday in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan has urged efforts to prevent and control the HIV/AIDS, and called for taking a holistic approach with an emphasis on prevention and treatment as well as publicity of related knowledge on Dec. 1.

Villagers have are harvesting baby marrows or zucchinis these days in Mile city, south Yunnan’s Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture.

A new bamboo species, Luohanfangzhu or Chimonobambusa was found in Yiliang county, northeast Yunnan’s Zhaotong city, according to local forestry and grassland bureau.

During a recent ride on the China-Laos railway, three passenger-friendly services were seen equipped on the bullet train: luggage tracker, hand-held pager and five-color Chinese knots.

The China-Laos Railway, due to open this week, is a docking project between the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and Laos' strategy to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub.

The Chinese mainland has not detected Omicron COVID-19 variant cases so far, a health official said on Nov. 30.

Yunnan province will strive to achieve a broader, deeper and higher level of opening up in the coming five years, according to a report delivered at the just-concluded 11th CPC Yunnan Provincial Congress.

A special session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) kicked off here on Nov. 29 amid growing concerns over the latest Omicron coronavirus variant, where the participants aim to negotiate a new "pandemic treaty."

China's tactics for preventing COVID-19 case import and domestic resurgence of COVID-19 remain effective for the Omicron variant of the virus, medical experts said on Nov. 29.

Bringing global tourists fast, direct and safe services, as well as the ubiquitous management by the government, the app is expected to create a tourism ecology that is smart, healthy, easy and trustworthy.

Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang and Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov made the remarks in their co-authored article Respecting People's Democratic Rights published on The National Interest website.