BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Finnish enterprises on Monday engaged in lively discussions on cooperation in innovation, green development and digitalization, and signed multiple commercial agreements during the sixth meeting of the China-Finland Committee for Innovative Business Cooperation, which was held in Beijing.Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo and Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao attended and delivered remarks at the meeting's closing ceremony. After the meeting, Orpo and Wang held a dialogue with Finnish business representatives.Orpo said that China is a vital trade partner and export market for Finland, and that Finnish enterprises attach great importance to the enormous potential of the Chinese market.Both countries share a strong willingness to cooperate in areas such as green and low-carbon development, the circular economy, and industrial digitalization, he said, expressing hope that enterprises from both sides will translate their discussions into concrete cooperative projects.Finland supports free trade and fair competition, and looks forward to enhanced mutual trust and reduced trade barriers between the European Union (EU) and China, the prime minister said, adding that Finland also welcomes Chinese enterprises to invest in the country and is committed to creating a favorable business environment for them.Wang said that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Finland economic and trade cooperation has yielded substantial results, setting an exemplary model of openness, cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.He encouraged enterprises from both countries to strengthen confidence, seize opportunities and deepen cooperation in such fields as trade, investment and innovation.Wang expressed hope that the Finnish government would play a positive role in urging the EU to exercise caution in its application of economic and trade restrictive measures, meet China halfway, jointly oppose protectionism, and fo...

KUNMING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The first high-quality telomere-to-telomere genome of Bagarius rutilus, a fish species under China's second-class national protection, has been successfully assembled by a joint research team of Chinese scholars from the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, this institute said on Monday.The research findings were published in the international scientific journal Scientific Data on Dec. 12, 2025.Liu Yaqiu, first author of the paper and an assistant researcher at the Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS), said the assembled genome had achieved 98.17-percent coverage and 97.5-percent completeness, with 29,106 protein-coding genes annotated, making it the most complete and contiguous genome currently available among Siluriformes species, the taxonomic order to which Bagarius rutilus belongs.Bagarius rutilus is a large, benthic carnivorous fish endemic to the Yuanjiang-Red River basin in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Once heavily overfished, the species has also experienced a sharp population decline due to hydropower development, water pollution and invasive species, underscoring the urgent need for enhanced conservation measures.Liu Mingdian, a researcher at the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute under the CAFS, said the release of this genome provides critical data for understanding the species' adaptation to fast-flowing environments and for developing artificial breeding and restocking strategies.These findings are expected to facilitate population recovery and habitat conservation of this rare fish species, the researchers noted.