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Alibaba’s third-party online payment service platform, Alipay, released an emergency statement on its Weibo account on Thursday, saying that everyone, including its staff, can pay how they want and their choice should be respected.

The announcement came after Alibaba’s Chairman Jack Ma was seen paying for his bill with a bank card instead of Alipay at a bar in southwest China’s Chongqing, Jan. 10.

The 34th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival kicked off Jan 5 at the Harbin Ice and Snow World park in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

Meanwhile, the 19th Harbin Ice and Snow World, an 800,000-square-meter wonderland, began its official run.

China returned a criminal suspect to China on 16th Oct 2017, the Ministry of Public Security said, in what appears to be the first such instance of cooperation between the two countries, after the First Round of China-US Law Enforcement and Cyber Security Dialogue.

Two separate military drills were launched Tuesday and Thursday in different training bases in north China.

The drills will both feature long-distance delivery of troops and experiments on new combat models for the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) army.