The new deals cover key sectors including biomedicine, electronic information, automotives, digital economy and green low-carbon, and 26 projects are valued at more than $50 million each.
Several provincial-level regions across China have identified "new productive forces" and the development of the private sector as their top priorities during their first meetings after the Spring Festival holiday.
The importance attached by China's policymakers to the financial sector is conducive to the long-term stability of the A-share market and the high-quality development of public companies, said experts.
Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Wednesday that the city's economy is set to grow this year by around 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent, while the outlook for 2025 to 2028 is an average expansion of 3.2 percent.
China will continue working toward the swift implementation and effectiveness of the policy package aimed at enhancing the investment climate for foreign businesses and attracting more foreign investment.
In the face of many challenges, developing and least-developed countries have urged for reforms in the World Trade Organization to ensure multilateral cooperation, fair and free trade, and the normalization of dispute settlement mechanisms.
The allegation of "forced labor" in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is a huge lie, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, urging the U.S. to immediately stop smearing China, stop intervening in China's internal affairs, and stop politicizing and weaponizing trade issues.
About 62 percent of foreign companies in China have chosen not to shift their investments out of the country, as they believe that the nation has large room for further development, according to a recent survey.
Shanghai recently announced the establishment of two tax affairs tribunals, the first of their kind in the country, to centralize jurisdiction over such administrative cases and provide a better business environment under the rule of law.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that arbitrarily putting up barriers can't stop China's innovation, and it urged the U.S. to support companies from all countries to promote technological progress through fair competition.
China is considering building a global city cluster in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region — and more steps to further promote the coordinated development of the region are in the offing, according to the country's top economic regulator.
The number of passenger flights allowed to be operated by Chinese airlines between China and the United States is set to increase from next month, in the latest step taken to boost direct flight connectivity between the two countries.
Chinese passenger airlines will be able to increase their weekly round-trip flights to the U.S. from the current 35 to 50, starting from March 31, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) said on Monday after frequent China-U.S. interactions.
China will strive to expand its carbon trading market as soon as possible, as both trade volume and prices in the program are increasing, Zhao Yingmin, vice-minister of ecology and environment, said on Monday.
China is capable of effecting more measures to boost market confidence in property developers' liquidity and credit, thereby reversing the downward pressure on the Chinese economy from real estate and further vitalizing the economy.
China's national carbon emissions trading market has become the largest of its kind worldwide for greenhouse gas emissions, with the annual market coverage of carbon dioxide emissions reaching about 5.1 billion tons.
China's Interim Regulations for the Management of Carbon Emission Trading will come into effect this May.
The country's carbon trading market, which was launched in July 2021, has registered increases in both trade volume and price, according to Zhao Yingmin, vice-minister of ecology and environment.
Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Monday, during the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, according to the ministry.
China strongly opposes the United States' misrepresentation of its lawful trade activities as "economic coercion", and emphasizes that the country stands firmly against U.S. unilateralism and bullying behavior.
China is willing to work with all parties to achieve more pragmatic results at the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization held in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, said the country's top commerce official on Sunday.
China strongly opposes the United States' accusations regarding its trade policies and economic practices and called on the country to abide by the rules of the World Trade Organization and its own commitments, said the Ministry of Commerce on Monday.
Chinese provinces and cities are starting off strong with obtaining overseas orders in the Year of the Dragon by sending teams abroad while actively participating in international exhibitions.
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday.
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integrated development region has deepened cooperation in many fields including transportation, ecology and industry over the past 10 years.
The Chinese mainland is still leading the amount of financing in IPOs in global capital markets, despite the recent temporary tightening pace of IPOs nationwide.
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao will attend the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, and strengthen cooperation among all parties, the ministry said on Thursday.
China has taken a decisive step toward bolstering its private sector by starting to draft a law on promoting the private economy, marking the latest step in boosting business confidence and revitalizing the growth of the world's second-largest economy.
China has expressed strong concerns following the recent announcement by the European Commission to launch a probe into a Chinese train manufacturer's alleged subsidy issues in its bid for a project in Bulgaria.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission stressed on Thursday that the nation's market regulators shall not intervene in normal transactions, denying foreign media reports that regulatory measures have been taken to restrict legitimate transactions of unloading shares and short selling.