The Beijing Hour

International leaders are beginning to arrive in Shanghai for the International Import Expo, where Chinese Premier Li Qiang will deliver a speech (01:01). China will exempt visa requirements for Swedish passport holders, and allow travel agencies to resume services for tourist groups to Canada (11:04). And British police say there is only one suspect in the weekend stabbing attack, and they don't believe the incident is an act of terrorism (27:15).

Chinese President Xi Jinping has proposed efforts to safeguard the multilateral trading system and pledged to share more development opportunities from China (01:04). The Chinese defense minister is calling for peaceful relations between the militaries of China and the United States (32:28). And the United Nations Security Council is urging an immediate end to the violence in Sudan (22:18).

Chinese President Xi Jinping says the heads of state of China and the United States should steer the direction and ensure the advancement of bilateral ties for the benefit of both countries and the world (01:02). China's Shenzhou-21 manned mission will take four mice to the Tiangong Space Station (13:27). And Hurricane Melissa has killed at least 25 people in Haiti, after leaving a trail of destruction in Jamaica and Cuba (22:13).

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump are meeting in Busan ahead of the APEC meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea (01:04). The China Securities Regulatory Commission has launched a new plan to streamline the qualified foreign investor regime as part of the country's new measures to further open the market (36:19). And Melissa has hit Cuba and Jamaica as one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the region (23:23).

The upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area covers nine new sectors such as the digital economy and green economy that the two sides are hoping to work on together for regional prosperity (01:06). Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about developing one of the world's most important bilateral relationships (11:03). And China's central bank has resumed trading treasury bonds in the open market (36:52).

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has highlighted the economic resilience and vitality in East Asia, and pledged to strengthen the alignment of development strategies with ASEAN (01:06). China and the United States have reached a basic consensus on arrangements to address each other's trade concerns after talks in Malaysia (09:01). And major industrial firms in China have reported a 3.2 percent rise in profits in the first nine months (38:10).

China is prioritizing innovative trade and improving the business environment among efforts at further opening up under the 15th Five-Year Plan (01:21). China's Shenzhou-21 spacecraft is at the launch area awaiting liftoff (31:40). And the European Union has failed to agree on a plan to use frozen Russian assets to finance new loans for Ukraine (24:39).

China's major goals for the next five years include achievements in deepening reform and strengthening national security, as the country marches toward socialist modernization (01:15). China continues to share opportunities from its opening up at Phase II of the Canton Fair, and ahead of the China International Import Expo (14:10). Trade delegations from China and the United States will begin talks in Malaysia on Friday (31:38).

U.S. and Russian officials have decided to postpone a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Hungary after their foreign affairs chiefs spoke on the phone (01:05). Airbus has opened a second assembly line in China, capitalizing on the nation's push for high-level opening up under the 14th Five-Year Plan (07:38). And a UN report has condemned U.S. strikes against Venezuelan vessels as "extrajudicial executions" (19:01).

Sanae Takaichi has unveiled her cabinet including two female ministers and 10 new appointees after winning parliament's approval as Japan's first female prime minister (01:07). The U.S. government shutdown is affecting more than a thousand workers at the agency responsible for safeguarding the nuclear stockpile (21:28). And Chinese movies have raked in one billion yuan in overseas markets so far this year (52:19).