Hi, here's what you should know about China for the past 24 hours.
ZHENGZHOU -- A Chinese lubricant producer has obtained dual-quality certification from the U.S. National Sanitation Foundation for its food-grade products, the first Asian company to receive such international recognition.
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MOSCOW -- A Tibetan cultural exchange delegation dispatched by China's State Council Information Office completed its three-day visit in Russia on Saturday, following in-depth panel discussions on Tibetan culture with the Russian academic community.
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XI'AN -- China's e-commerce giant Alibaba will set up a northwest headquarters in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province, to better support the development of western China and the Belt and Road Initiative.
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BEIJING -- A court in Beijing closed down a company from breaking air-pollution rules.
The ban was issued before the final verdict as a protective measure, the first of its kind in Beijing.
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BANGKOK -- China and Thailand are working together to sign two contracts of the first phase of Thailand-China railway project in September to begin the construction work of the first section in October, Chinese Embassy in Bangkok said in a statement Saturday.
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JERUSALEM -- China's creative thinking is expected to facilitate a solution to the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the head of a major Israeli peace organization told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Avi Buskila, director general of Peace Now, said it is "very important" for China, one of the biggest countries in the world, to become part of the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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MANILA -- More Chinese tourists had visited the Philippines during the first half of 2017, the Philippine government record showed on Saturday.
From January to July this year, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said that the number of Chinese nationals who visited the Philippines totaled 454,962, compared to the 340,958 recorded in the same period last year, or an increase of 33.44 percent.
