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Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25.

Former Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, head of Japan's Association for the Promotion of International Trade, a group for friendship with China, led a delegation to China and arrived in Beijing on Sunday amid strained bilateral relations, according to Japanese media outlets.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command (STC) conducted a joint naval-air training exercise in the waters and airspace around China's Huangyan Dao on Sunday, according to a statement released by the command on the same day.

The Heihe pedestrian port in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, which serves a cross-river passenger ropeway connecting Heihe with Russia's Blagoveshchensk, has passed a national acceptance inspection, the Heilongjiang Daily reported on Sunday.

A chartered FedEx cargo plane carrying a pair of Chinese giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, landed in Atlanta in the southeastern United States on Sunday morning.

Inside Yahui Industrial Park in Cheng'an county of Handan, Hebei province, screens at Yuehui Network Technology display dramas created by a small team with the aid of artificial intelligence.

After more than four months in orbit, the Shenzhou-23 crew has completed a range of tasks, including transferring payloads in and out of the cabin, while continuing space science experiments and routine maintenance aboard the space station, according to a CCTV News report on Sunday.

New Zealand's National Party officially launched its campaign on Sunday for the country's Nov. 7 general election, holding an event in Auckland and setting the tone for a six-week campaign.Incumbent Prime Minister and National leader Christopher Luxon reiterated the campaign slogan "no new taxes,"