Xi calls for advancing building of China-Canada new strategic partnership

China's foreign trade posted resolute expansion in 2025 despite global headwinds, with the country retaining its position as the world's largest goods trading nation. Last year, China's foreign trade value hit 45.47 trillion yuan (about 6.48 trillion U.S. dollars), up 3.8 percent year on year, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Wednesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping received the credentials of 18 new ambassadors to China in Beijing on Friday. Addressing the envoys, Xi noted that the world today is undergoing accelerating changes on a scale rarely seen in a century, with the international landscape beset by transformation and turbulence, and global challenges becoming more prominent.

With well-arranged rooftops covered in thick blankets of snow, as well as eye-catching, unique snow views featuring natural scenes that resemble "snow mushrooms" and "snow cakes," Shuangfeng Forest Farm, known as China's "Snow Town," has been transformed into a winter wonderland.

In the depths of winter, when the cold cuts to the bone, warmth fills the workshop of a wax printing and embroidery cooperative in Zhuchang township, Nayong county, Bijie city, southwest China's Guizhou province.

The leading Party members group of China's State Council on Wednesday convened to study a speech delivered by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, at the fifth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, as well as the plenum's guiding principles.