Macao's civil protection response to Typhoon Mangkhut achieved the expected results, and was effective to minimise the negative impact of the storm on the community, the special administrative region (SAR)'s chief executive said here on Tuesday.

The Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions issued the highest-level typhoon warning, No. 10, yesterday morning as Typhoon Mangkhut hit Pearl River Delta cities.

China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) government had stepped up its preparation efforts in response to the anticipated arrival of two typhoons Barijat and Mangkhut, with multiple measures put in place since early Thursday.

Hong Kong is preparing for a super typhoon that is predicted to land this weekend and may be the strongest ever in the city since records began.

China has the second-largest number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies in the world, trailing only the United States, according to a blue paper published Monday.

On Tuesday morning, air raid sirens sounded for three minutes in Shenyang and 13 other cities in northeast China's Liaoning Province to mark the 87th anniversary of the "Sept. 18 Incident", the start of Japan's invasion of China.

The two-day China Development Forum concluded in Beijing on Monday. About 800 guests from Chinese and foreign business circles, academic circles and government institutions have made suggestions for the reform and opening up of China in the new era. Pieter Bottelier, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who is the former Chief of the World Bank's Resident Mission in Beijing, said: "I left my job in China more than 20 years ago. I'm now looking at China from 30,000 feet, from an international perspective." At a time when China has undergone reform and opening up for 40 years and is currently faced with globalization, trade protectionism, and an uncertain and unstable international environment, such perspectives and thinking dimensions are necessary.

President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the World Conference on Science Literacy 2018, which opened in Beijing Monday.

In spite of overwhelming opposition from the international community and US industries, the United States announced Monday that it will impose additional tariffs of 10 percent on 200 billion US dollars’ worth of Chinese exports to the US, and will also adopt other tariff escalation measures. China on Tuesday night announced a series of differentiated rates for tariffs on about 60 billion US dollars’ worth of American imports, starting on Sept 24th, the same day the new US tariffs take effect.

The Foreign Ministry urged Sweden on Monday to pay attention to China's concerns over the brutal abuse of three Chinese tourists by Swedish police in Stockholm, and take concrete measures to protect the safety and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese tourists in the country.

During this week's fourth Eastern Economic Forum, China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin held their third meeting in four months. The frequent interaction between these two heads of state has become a distinctive feature of China-Russian relations.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin visited All-Russian Children's Center "Ocean" here on Wednesday to promote friendship between the two countries' youths.