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1. China will kick off a monthlong campaign promoting consumption in May amid efforts to bolster consumer spending as the country has effectively brought COVID-19 under control, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Sunday.

2. Guangdong government officially issued the provincial 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035 on Sunday. The province is aiming for an annual economic growth of around 5 percent in the coming five years.

3. Guangzhou Metro will extend service by one houron April 30, May 1 and 5 to cope with the large passenger flow in the upcoming May Day holiday. Metro line 2 from Guangzhou South Railway Station to Jiahe Wanggang will also extend service by one hour on May 4 and operate night trains to drop off passengers at stations of Luoxi, Changgang, Gongyuanqian, Guangzhou Railway Station and Jiahe Wanggang.

4. During the upcoming May Day holiday, Guangzhou will open daytime water buses between Haixinsha and Changzhou Island, allowing passengers to have a full view of the city's coastline and its development over the years. A single-trip ticket will be available at as low as 20 yuan.

5. Sinopharm, the Chinese pharmaceutical giant, has commenced phase-1 and phase-2 clinical trials for its new recombinant vaccine against COVID-19 in central China's Henan Province since Saturday.

6. Firefighters continued to battle a giant cluster of forest fires in Mianning county of Sichuan Province on Sunday that has been burning for five days.

7. The Chinese mainland reported 11 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Sunday, all imported.

World

1. A missing Indonesian submarine has been found cracked apart on the seafloor in waters off Bali, the Indonesian military said Sunday, as it confirmed that all 53 crew were dead.

2. Italy is to ban arrivals from coronavirus hotspot India, apart from Italian residents, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said Sunday. Bangladesh has imposed a ban on the entry of travelers from India via land ports.

3. As many as 551 new medical oxygen generation plants would be set up across India in a bid to address the shortage of oxygen amid the COVID-19 surge, said an official statement issued by the Indian prime minister office Sunday.

3. US tourists vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to visit the European Union in the coming months, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview on Sunday.

4. NASA's mini helicopter Ingenuity on Sunday successfully completed its third flight on Mars, moving farther and faster than ever before, with a peak speed of 6.6 feet per second.

5. Turkey denounced on Saturday U.S. President Joe Biden's statement recognizing the mass killing conducted on Armenians more than a century ago as "genocide."

6. The European Union (EU) is gearing up to "respond rapidly" to India's worrying COVID-19 situation, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday.

Source: People's Daily APP, CGTN, China Daily, Xinhua

Editor: Sophia