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The first China International Consumer Products Expo is scheduled for May 7-10 in Haikou, capital of south Chinas Hainan Province.   The event will be the first international expo to be held in Hainan since China released a master plan last June to build the island province into a globally influential and high-level free trade port by the middle of the century.   It is also the first-ever expo focusing on consumer products organized by the worlds second largest economy. It is expected to show...

--Since this April, China has supplied more than 5,000 ventilators, 21,569 oxygen generators, over 21.48 million masks and around 3,800 tons of medicines to India, according to statistics of the General Administration of Customs of China, said Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong.   As far as it goes, China provides most oxygen concentrators to India, and keeps producing oxygen concentrators and other medical equipment for India, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said Tuesday in a twe...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed maintaining strategic resolve on developing an ecological civilization and achieving modernization featuring human-nature harmony.   Xi made the remarks while presiding over a study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Friday, according to a statement issued on Saturday.   The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) period is a vital phase for Chinas ecological conservation d...

It is estimated that Chinese travelers made 56.37 million domestic trips on May 1, the start of the five-day May Day holiday, official data showed Saturday.   Compared with the same period last year, this holiday figure surged by 111.5 percent, the Ministry of Transport said.   The ministry estimated that airlines handled nearly 1.89 million passenger trips on the same day. The flow of highway traffic amounted to 36 million trips.   Railway trips will likely rise by 6.1 percent from the 2019...

Counting of votes for local elections began Sunday morning in Indias Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, officials said.   The counting began at 8:00 a.m. local time in all five places and would continue until all the votes are counted.   "Results will be released in phases and constituency-wise and accordingly a picture of who is actually winning would emerge," an Election Commission of India (ECI) official said.     Meanwhile, counting of votes for bypolls to four Lok S...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held telephone conversations with his Kyrgyz and Tajik counterparts on Saturday to discuss the armed clashes on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.   According to a press release, Lavrov said Russia welcomes the agreements reached by the parties to resolve the conflict exclusively by political and diplomatic means.   He expressed hope that Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will honor their commitments in the interests of fully normalizing the situation and restoring an atm...

Local observers describe the U.S.-led war on terror in Afghanistan as a "failure", and they say the upcoming troops withdrawal marks a "clear defeat" of the United States and the U.S.-led coalition forces in the Afghan war.   "No doubt, it is clear defeat of the U.S.-led coalition forces in the Afghan war as both the Taliban and al-Qaida network and like-minded militant groups are still active and operational in Afghanistan," political analyst Nazari Pariani told Xinhua on Saturday.   U.S. Pr...

China has issued more inclusive finance loans in the first quarter as government introduces more policies to support small companies and individuals, official data showed.   In the first three months, inclusive finance loans increased by 1.96 trillion yuan (about 302.9 billion U.S. dollars), 925.9 billion yuan more than the same period last year, according to data from the Peoples Bank of China.   By the end of March, outstanding inclusive finance loans stood at 23.46 trillion yuan, up 28 per...

The United States and China have to build "guardrails" around the consequential bilateral ties and maintain constant communication to avoid possible miscalculation and confrontation between the two major countries, U.S. experts and scholars have said.   During the McCain Institutes Sedona Forum on global issues on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said strains with China are "the biggest problem for America, the biggest problem for the world."   "Because if we cant solve ...

NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday and was on its way back to Earth.   The Crew-1 mission, which consists of NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, is scheduled to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:57 a.m. Eastern Time (0657 GMT) Sunday.   The four astronauts are returning home after 167 days in space -- the most for a U.S. spacecraft since th...