The person in charge of the Department of Trade in Services of the Ministry of Commerce introduced the development of trade in services in the first quarter of 2025. In the first quarter of 2025, China's trade in services grew rapidly, with a total import and export volume of 1,974.18 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 8.7%. Among them, exports were 835.15 billion yuan, an increase of 12.2%; imports were 1,139.03 billion yuan, an increase of 6.2%.

According to CCTV: Li Qiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council and decided to approve nuclear power projects such as the third phase of the Zhejiang Sanmen project. It is understood from many parties in the industry that the new projects approved at the National Standing Committee are Guangxi Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Phase III, Guangdong Taishan Nuclear Power Phase II, Zhejiang Sanmen Nuclear Power Phase III, Shandong Haiyang Nuclear Power Phase III, Fujian Xiapu Nuclear Power Phase I, a total of 5 projects and 10 new units.

Today, Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a regular press conference that on April 24, the Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft was successfully launched, coinciding with the 10th "China Space Day". Over the years, China has made steady progress in pursuing its dream of space, and has continuously expanded its "circle of friends" for space cooperation, and has signed nearly 200 intergovernmental space cooperation agreements with more than 50 countries and international organizations. In the near future, China's Chang'e-7 will also fly to the moon with payloads from Egypt, Bahrain, Thailand, Italy, Switzerland and other countries. On the journey of exploring the sea of stars, China walks with the world for the benefit of mankind.

On April 21, the first Ministerial Meeting of the "2+2" dialogue mechanism between the Foreign Ministers and Defense Ministers of China and Indonesia was successfully held in Beijing. The meeting achieved positive results, including strengthening high-level exchanges, promoting the synergy of development strategies, expanding the connotation of security cooperation, maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea, building an open world economy, and promoting multilateral strategic coordination.

At a regular press conference held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a reporter asked a question about the US side's "sanctions" against six officials of the Chinese central government in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong SAR government. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun: The US has indiscriminately imposed illegal unilateral sanctions on six officials of the Chinese central government in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong SAR government, seriously interfering in Hong Kong affairs and China's internal affairs, and seriously violating the principles of international law and basic norms governing international relations. China strongly condemns such despicable acts.

According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dong Jun, Minister of National Defense, will host the first ministerial meeting of the "2 2" dialogue mechanism between the foreign ministers and defense ministers of China and Indonesia in Beijing on April 21. Indonesian Foreign Minister and Minister of Defense will attend the meeting in China.

Bank of China announced the first batch on March 30 to supplement 165 billion yuan of core Tier 1 capital through private placement to the Ministry of Finance. Ge Haijiao, Chairman of Bank of China, said, "This private placement has explored a new path for state-owned listed commercial banks to replenish their capital.

According to the WeChat official account of "Beijing Haidian", on March 29, at the 2025 ZGC Forum Annual Conference "International Technology Trade Matchmaking Conference - Asia-Pacific Innovative Technology Industry Docking and Cooperation Special Session", the "Beijing Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone Management Measures" was officially released, which was implemented from March 21, 2025.

The world's first floating dynamic positioning global cage type vessel "Zhanjiang Bay No. 1" was successfully launched in Tongzhou Bay Demonstration Zone, Nantong, Jiangsu, marking that China's deep-sea industrial aquaculture has entered a new era of intelligence. The ship has a water body of 80,000 cubic meters and an annual production capacity of 2,000 tons. It integrates marine semi-submersible aquaculture, autonomous navigation and avoidance, green energy supply

According to TrendForce's latest survey, China's policies have stimulated the overall demand of the PV industry, and module supply is tight, and it is expected that demand will peak slightly in March and April 2025, which may lead to an increase in prices in the industrial chain in the second quarter. At the end of January and the beginning of February 2025, China successively announced the relevant regulations on photovoltaic power generation and new energy electricity prices

As for how to boost the expectations of private enterprises, Yao Yang believes that the first thing is to "promote the economy", as long as this problem is solved, the confidence of private entrepreneurs can return to 70%. Second, it is necessary to improve profit-seeking law enforcement and solve the problem of arrears in private enterprises. “The reason behind profit-seeking enforcement and defaulting on private enterprises is that local governments are running out of money. This year's two sessions have also taken a big step towards solving this problem, that is

Ministry of Finance on March 25 news, in February, A total of 41.855 billion yuan of lottery tickets were sold nationwide, an increase of 5.554 billion CNY or 15.3% year-on-year, Mainly because the Spring Festival holiday lottery market was closed and low-based in February last year. Among them, the sales of welfare lottery institutions were 14.832 billion yuan, an increase of 2.2 billion yuan or 17.4% year-on-year; Sports lottery agency sales of 27.023 billion yuan, an increase of 3.354 billion yuan or 14.2% year-on-year. In January and February, a total of 90.374 billion yuan of lottery tickets were sold nationwide, a year-on-year decrease of 3.491 billion yuan, or a decrease of 3.7%. Among them, the sales of welfare lottery institutions were 32.073 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 249 million yuan, or a decrease of 0.8%; Sports lottery agency sales was 58.301 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 3.243 billion yuan, a decrease of 5.3%.

On March 22, China's oil and gas exploration field ushered in a major breakthrough, and the 100-million-ton proven reserves of Jiyang Shale Oil Emerging Oilfield of Sinopec Shengli Oilfield officially passed the reserve review and filing of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China. Located in Gaoqing County, Zibo City, Shandong Province, the emerging oilfield Fanyeping 1 block has more than 140 million tons of proven geological reserves of oil in shale formations and 11.3599 million tons of technically recoverable reserves.

The Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference, and spokesman He Yongqian introduced China's foreign investment cooperation from January to February this year. From January to February 2025, China's foreign non-financial direct investment was 22.97 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 9.1%. Among them, the non-financial direct investment of Chinese enterprises in the "Belt and Road" countries was 5.52 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 17.6%.

The Henan Supervision Bureau of the State Administration of Financial Supervision and Administration, together with the Financial Office of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, and the Provincial Department of Commerce, recently jointly issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Financial Support to Expand Consumption"