​ China-Laos railway will bring new opportunities and provide huge momentum in strengthening Laos' economy, Valy Vetsaphong, vice president of the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry and advisor to the Lao prime minister, has said.

"In Asia, humans and nature are inseparable. We have long believed that humans and nature should coexist in harmony and prosper together”, said Ban Ki-moon, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, while addressing the opening ceremony of the first Asia Youth Leaders Forum on Saturday. Ban further pointed out that “Now we must strive to make these Asian Values and Asian ways the basis for creating a new civilization”.

​The 2021 China Internet Media Forum kicked off in Guangzhou on November 25. Participants included China's mainstream media such as Xinhua News Agency, China Daily and Nanfang Media Group. Li Xi, Secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, attended the opening ceremony.

The Understanding China Conference 2021 will be held in Guangzhou from December 1 to 4. Themed "Whence and Whither-- Unprecedented Changes in the World and China and the CPC," the event will attract former heads of state, as well as representatives from political, academic, and business circles from home and abroad to carry out profound discussions and extensive exchanges, in a bid to enhance mutual understanding between China and the rest of the world.

China's strong economic resilience and active improvement of business environment will bring more impetus to global economic recovery, and China's opportunities are also opportunities for the world, overseas experts say.

​Chinese President Xi Jinping had a virtual meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden Tuesday on the direction of China-U.S. relations and on some topics of global importance.

In the early morning of November 29th (Beijing time), Lin Gaoyuan and Lily Zhang, the China-U.S. Ping-Pong Diplomacy pair, narrowly lost to the Japanese duo, Tomokazu Harimoto and Hina Hayata 3-2, in the Mixed Doubles semifinal of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships held in Houston. Even with the loss, they earned bronze medals for their efforts.

"Young theatre actors provided countless wonderful performances for the festival with their unhampered creativity and perspective, as well as their pure love of drama." Chen Zehua, an inspector at level 1 of Guangzhou Municipal Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, said at the award and closing ceremony of the 16th Youth Theatre Festival in Guangzhou on November 28.

“In just three months, he looked like a totally different person after I helped him to do e-commerce livestreaming,” Huang Wei, better known as Viya, one of Chinese top e-commerce live-streamers, shared her stories about getting people in rural areas out of poverty in a recent interview with GDToday.