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Aerial photo taken on April 13, 2019 shows a container wharf at Qinzhou port in South China\'s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua]
>China to expand cross-border e-commerce pilot zones
跨境电商综合试验区扩围
China\'s Ministry of Commerce on Monday pledged to actively expand integrated pilot zones for cross-border e-commerce to cultivate new competitive edges in foreign trade.
商务部7月12日表示，将积极做好跨境电子商务综合试验区的扩围工作，培育外贸竞争新优势 。
Some cities have submitted applications to the State Council for the establishment of new pilot zones and the MOC will join relevant departments in carrying out related work, Ren Hongbin, assistant minister of commerce, said at a news conference.
商务部部长助理任鸿斌在新闻发布会上表示，目前，已有部分城市向国务院提出新设综试区的申请，若干城市正在申报中 。商务部将会同有关部门，做好新一批扩围工作 。
The MOC also promised to formulate guidelines for the protection of cross-border e-commerce intellectual property rights, optimize the list of cross-border e-commerce retail imports and facilitate the return and exchange management of cross-border e-commerce imports and exports.
商务部还将研究制定跨境电商知识产权保护指南，优化跨境电商零售进口商品的清单，便利跨境电商进出口的退换货管理 。
China\'s cross-border e-commerce has been expanding much faster than overall foreign trade, and its share in overall foreign trade has gone up significantly.
中国跨境电子商务发展速度明显快于外贸整体发展速度，占外贸整体比重明显提高 。

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An employee of Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co Ltd checks COVID-19 vaccines. [Photo/Xinhua]
>Domestic vaccine firms to supply 110M doses to COVAX
国药和科兴疫苗进入COVAX疫苗库
Two Chinese COVID-19 vaccine producers will immediately begin supplying 110 million doses to COVAX - a global vaccine-sharing initiative - to address critical gaps in vaccine distribution worldwide, the Gavi Vaccine Alliance said in a statement on Monday. By the first half of 2022, the two companies will supply a potential total of 550 million doses to COVAX, according to the statement. Gavi is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is one of the international organizations leading the COVAX initiative. The alliance announced it had recently signed agreements with State-owned Sinopharm and Sinovac Biotech.
全球疫苗免疫联盟(GAVI)7月12日发布声明称，为解决全球疫苗分配的严重鸿沟，近日已同中国国药集团和科兴公司分别签署了预购协议，这两家中国疫苗生产商将立即开始向新冠肺炎疫苗实施计划(COVAX)供货1.1亿剂新冠疫苗 。到明年上半年，国药和科兴可向COVAX提供5.5亿剂新冠疫苗 。GAVI总部位于瑞士日内瓦，是主导COVAX倡议的国际机构之一 。
Each company has developed an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine that has been authorized for emergency use by the World Health Organization, the first step for a vaccine product to be eligible for COVAX.
国药和科兴各自研发的灭活新冠疫苗早先已经进入世卫组织紧急使用清单，这是进入COVAX疫苗库的第一步 。

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Visitors crowd around Lunar Sample 001, which is on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing, on Feb 27, 2021. [Photo by Jiang Dong/chinadaily.com.cn]
>Lunar sample study programs kicked off
首批月球科研样品发放
China on Monday delivered about 17 grams of lunar samples brought back by the Chang\'e-5 probe to 13 institutions, which had applied for research programs to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.

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