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BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The China-Europe freight-train service has recorded more than 40,000 trips, with the transported goods valued at over 200 billion U.S. dollars, official data shows.

Since the first China-Europe freight train left southwest China's Chongqing Municipality in March 2011, the service has reached more than 160 cities in 22 European countries, according to a work conference of the office of the leading group on advancing Belt and Road development.

BEIJING, June 20 (APP): Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)’s flight PK-6852 transported 1.55million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine from the Beijing Capital International Airport to Islamabad on Sunday.

The national flag carrier through its special flights has already airlifted one million Covid-19 vaccine procured from China to Pakistan this month, Qadir Bux Sangi, PIA Country Manager for China told APP.

HONG KONG, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam said on Sunday that in the country's financial development, Hong Kong will play a key role in promoting renminbi (RMB) internationalization, diversified financing, fund management, risk management and green development.

BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- More than 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in China by Saturday, as the country is pushing ahead with the largest vaccination drive in the history of New China.

It took the country just five days to hit its most recent 100-million dose increase, according to daily updates by the National Health Commission (NHC).

BEIJING, June19 (APP): Pakistani and Chinese experts discussed potential of agricultural cooperation, especially in chilli farming at a wibenar themed “Pakistan Chilli Contract Farming Project Promotion and Inaugural Conference of Pakistan-China Condiment Industry Alliance”.

As per agricultural cooperation, Pakistan Ambassador to China Moin ul Haque said that now a plan of over 20 projects was being implemented to modernize the agriculture sector in Pakistan, including new seeds to increase the crop yield,

BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Officials and scholars from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as well as relatives of the "witnesses" at the so-called "Uygur Tribunal," Friday debunked and strongly condemned the fake claims of "genocide" put forward at the body's recent "hearing".

Elijan Anayat, a spokesperson of the Xinjiang regional government, said at a press conference in Beijing that the "Uygur Tribunal" employed presumption of guilt and fabricated evidence, and their so-called "witnesses" were nothing more than a few actors and actresses.

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court ordered the top editor of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and the head of its parent company held without bail Saturday in the first hearing since their arrest two days ago under the city’s national security law.

Ryan Law, the chief editor, and Cheung Kim-hung, the CEO of Next Digital, have been charged with collusion with a foreign country to endanger national security in a case widely seen as an attack on press freedom in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

BEIJING, June 18 (APP): Pakistan-China friendship is deeply embedded in the hearts of people from both sides that enjoys wide support across the political spectrum in Pakistan, Pakistan Ambassador to China Moin ul Haque said.

“It’s very important that we pass on these sentiments of friendship to our future generations,” he said in an interview with Xinhua.

SYDNEY/BEIJING, June 18 (Reuters) - A World Bank-led project declined to award a contract to lay sensitive undersea communications cables after Pacific island governments heeded U.S. warnings that participation of a Chinese company posed a security threat, two sources told Reuters.

HONG KONG, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Despite the pressure from the United States, some European countries are still willing to continue to develop relations with China, the South China Morning Post quoted an expert as saying in a report this week.