Zambia's Eurobond holders have registered their "displeasure" at not being included in official sector debt restructuring discussions, a finance ministry official said on Tuesday, adding that they "feel like they are left behind".

China is comprehensively advancing negotiations on joining the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), the Ministry of Commerce said Monday.

China has established a working team to push its accession to the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, the Ministry of Commerce said in an online statement on Friday.

China will support around 300 service platforms to help with the digital transformation of 4,000-6,000 small- and medium-sized enterprises till 2025, the country's industry and information technology ministry and finance ministry said.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Chinese mainland, in actual use, expanded 17.3 percent year on year to 798.33 billion yuan in the first seven months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.

The country's total computing power scale now ranks second in the world, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

From January to July, completed investments in water conservancy projects totaled 567.5 billion yuan (about 83.9 billion U.S. dollars), up 71.4 percent over the same period in 2021, the Ministry of Water Resources said Aug. 10.

Latest data from the Ministry of Commerce showed that FDI into the nation totaled 723.31 billion yuan ($107.07 billion) in the first half of the year, surging 17.4 percent year-on-year.

The Chinese ministry said it will maintain a zero-tolerance attitude toward accounting fraud

At the end of last month, China's outstanding local government debt stood at nearly 33.25 trillion yuan, within the official limit for this year, said the ministry.

China will work to promote WTO reform in the right direction

The ministry will also facilitate the development of new foreign trade formats like cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses.