Zelensky showed the rare earth map to the United States. "The Americans provided the most help, so they should get the most. They should have this priority."

China claimed the gold medal in the short track speed skating women's 3,000m relay at the Harbin Asian Winter Games.

Bayani Jialin pocketed the women's 5km free gold medal in cross-country skiing, leading China to a sweep of the top four in the event at the Harbin Asian Winter Games.

#China dominated the men's freestyle skiing aerials with a podium sweep at the Harbin Asian Winter Games on Feb 9.

Chinese star skier Xu Mengtao clinched victory in the freestyle skiing women's aerials at the Harbin Asian Winter Games on Feb 9. The 34-year-old Olympic champion dominated the final with 90.94 points.

Phase III expansion and renovation project of China's Sanya Phoenix International Airport started in May 2024 and is expected to be completed by end of 2025. Upon completion, its terminal area will reach 228,000 ㎡, capable of handling an annual throughput of 30 mln passengers.

The first phase of #China's Bozhong 26-6 oilfield, by far the largest metamorphic rock oilfield in the world, commenced production. Its cumulative proven oil and gas reserves has exceeded 200 mln cubic meters.

#China's 2nd-hand vehicle market recorded steady growth in 2024, with annual transactions climbing 6.52% YoY to over 19.61 mln units. The total transaction value for the year reached approximately RMB 1.29 trln.

Museums across #China received approximately 72.65 mln visits from Jan. 29 to Feb. 4 this year, the first seven days of the Chinese new year. The average daily number of visits increased by 12.84% compared to the previous year.

#China's lottery ticket sales rose 7.6% YoY to RMB 623.49 bln in 2024. Sales of lottery tickets to support the country's welfare system reached RMB 207.96 bln in 2024, an increase of 7% from a year earlier.

#China's foreign exchange reserves totaled USD 3.209 trln at the end of January, up by USD 6.7 bln, or 0.21%, compared to the end of December last year, official data showed.

Last year, 111 types of agricultural products from 62 countries and regions were authorized for import into #China, 14 ports were newly opened or took further opening-up measures, and seven bonded logistics centers were established.

According to the China low-altitude logistics development report, released by the Linksum Institute of Digital Industry, the industry's market size expanded from RMB 27.18 bln in 2020 to RMB 58.18 bln in 2023. Projections indicate it could reach RMB 120 to 150 bln by 2025.

In recent years, #China has actively advanced low-altitude transport and logistics, with drones playing a key role in short-haul, cross-region and city deliveries. Approximately 2.7 mln parcels were delivered by drones across the country in 2024.

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, was up 0.5% YoY. The figure was up from the 0.1% increase registered last month, largely due to the influence of the Spring Festival holiday.

#China is expected to maintain its annual economic growth target at around 5% for 2025, the same as last year's goal, in a bid to shore up market expectations in the face of tepid domestic demand and rising trade protectionism, analysts and executives said.

At the beginning of 2025, Beijing unveiled an action plan for accelerating brain-computer interface (BCI) innovation (2025-30). It aims to cultivate three to five globally influential BCI tech leaders and over 100 specialized small and medium-sized enterprises by 2030.

According to Guizhou Province's 2025 government work report, the province has 48 key data centers under construction or operation. With a computing power capacity exceeding 55 EFLOPS, Guizhou is one of #China's leading regions in intelligent computing resources.

Performance of #DeepSeek's latest model is on par with leading models from tech giants such as OpenAI in tasks like mathematics, coding and natural language reasoning, but at only a fraction of cost and computing power of rivals amid tightened export controls on AI chips from US.

Data from market research company CCID Consulting showed that #China's #AI industry will make big strides in the next 10 to 15 years, with its market scale reaching RMB 1.73 trln by 2035, accounting for 30.6% of the world's total.