A business group from industrial and commercial circles has proposed building an electronic world trade platform to provide input for leaders' decision-making.
China and the United States are expected to give the Paris climate change agreement a big push forward as the world's largest economies gather for the G20 Summit this weekend, experts say.
In Hangzhou, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama will have separate meetings, which will be their eighth since 2013.
Major economic and financial affairs have topped the agenda of the past ten G20 Summits. They will also top the agenda of this year's summit in Hangzhou on Sept 4-5 and help silence the emerging anti-globalization forces.
The G20 Summit in Hangzhou is expected to set records for both the number of participants and the number of meetings, as some non-G20 members have been invited as guests and BRICS leaders will hold an informal meeting on the sidelines of the summit.
Inside an office at Hangzhou's Zhejiang University, Anchik Tyu, an Uzbek national who is in the final year of his doctoral work, was making a call on his mobile phone.
On the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou on Sept 4-5, President Xi Jinping will host an informal meeting of his counterparts from Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa, or a BRICS meeting.
Eight years after the global financial crisis, growth has failed to return to anything that would have been considered normal before the crisis.
Pan Hongjiang, a traffic police officer in east China resort city of Hangzhou, has become an online celebrity for a video clip showing him giving travel tips in English.
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the world is expecting the success of upcoming Group of 20 Hangzhou summit, which will be significant for the recovery of global economy.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo, with the two leaders agreeing to deepen cooperation in trade, finance, infrastructure and other areas.
As leaders of the world's major economies are to gather in Hangzhou, all eyes are on China to see what the economic powerhouse can offer in global governance to revive the world economy.
G20 members could follow the example of the Chinese government, which is launching a series of cross-border e-commerce experiment zones, Gianfranco Casati said on Friday.
Large numbers of people were seen standing in line to buy a commemorative stamp marking the G20 Leaders Summit in Hangzhou.
China and Kazakhstan should make joint efforts to push forward the landing of more competitive projects with high added value, President Xi Jinping said on Friday.
The G20 members vowed to combine policy measures - monetary, fiscal and structural reform - to boost economic growth, China's Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said on Friday.
Brexit is among the uncertainties weighing on global economic growth, and its impact is yet to be fully released, China's Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said Friday.
South Africa's participation in the G20 summit is to provide a strategic foresight in establishing an economic and international policy platform, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
Hangzhou is one of the most international cities in the country. It has been visited by many world celebrities and witnessed some of the most important historic moments.
The upcoming G20 summit in China needs to work for an optimal allocation of the key factors of production to invigorate the world economy, a foreign policy expert said.