President Xi Jinping highlighted on Tuesday the need to develop new quality productive forces tailored to local conditions for high-quality development, amid a new round of technological and industrial transformation.

China's top political adviser, Wang Huning, called on Monday for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to make full use of its role as a specialized advisory body, focusing on providing wisdom for the country's modernization goals.

The annual sittings of China's top legislature and top political advisory body, or the two sessions, offer a window into the nation's practice of whole-process people's democracy.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed vigorously promoting the high-quality development of new energy in China to make greater contributions to building a clean and beautiful world.

Xi hosted Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio, who is making a five-day state visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during a welcoming ceremony that included a guard of honor and a 21-gun salute.

As the curtain is raised for China's most important annual political gathering next week, a key focus of deliberations among legislators and political advisers is how the nation can employ new productive forces to reinvigorate the world's second-largest economy.

In his reply, Xi noted that Lantern Festival has long been an important moment for the Chinese people to express their hope for a better life.

Holden, along with the association's strategic adviser, Kenneth Quinn, and its executive director, Min Fan, were among a group of "old friends" invited to meet with Xi.

Tianjin, a municipality in North China, is intensifying efforts to leverage its strengths and spearhead the advancement of new productive forces, in response to President Xi Jinping's call during his visit earlier this month.

"I like watching ice hockey games, speed skating, figure skating and freestyle skiing. Hockey is my favorite, because it requires both personal skill and teamwork."

President Xi Jinping made the remark when presiding over the fourth meeting of the central commission for deepening overall reform of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which he heads.

Through international news, books and exchanges, people around the world have got to know their Chinese friend -- President Xi Jinping.

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message on Saturday to the 37th African Union summit held in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.

Xi said he was shocked to learn that serious terror attacks had taken place in the Iranian city of Kerman and caused heavy casualties.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, called on Wednesday for efforts from non-CPC members to pool their strength and contribute their wisdom to promoting Chinese modernization.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Wednesday chaired a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

When asking both sides to unswervingly develop bilateral relations, Xi set a clear goal of "responding to the uncertainties of the world with the stability of China-France relations".

President Xi Jinping and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a joint statement on the upgrading of the bilateral ties after they held talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

President Xi Jinping has encouraged Kenyan students and alumni at Beijing Jiaotong University to continue to contribute to the friendship between China and Kenya and between China and Africa, in a reply to a letter from them.