BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- China is powering ahead in bringing business and life back on track, with regular COVID-19 control measures in place. The following are the latest facts and figures for the past week:

-- China's C919 jet performed in an air show at an exhibition that opened on Oct. 31 in the eastern province of Jiangxi, the first such performance for the domestic passenger airplane.

The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, the producer of C919 and ARJ21, and famous international aircraft companies such as Diamond, Piper and Leonardo participated in the Nanchang Flight Convention at Yaohu Airport in Nanchang, the provincial capital.

-- The "2020 Lancang-Mekong TV Week with Myanmar Theme Day" has opened in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.

The TV week includes an exhibition on media cooperation, online media forums and screening of TV series of Lancang-Mekong countries. Fourteen documentaries from Myanmar will be shown at the event.

-- China will hold the seventh World Internet Conference in November in the river town of Wuzhen in the eastern province of Zhejiang, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) told a press conference on Nov. 2.

The conference will run from Nov. 23 to 24, with the theme of "digital empowerment to create a better future: jointly build a community of shared future in cyberspace," said Zhao Zeliang, deputy director of the CAC, at the press conference in Beijing.

-- China will build a sci-fi-based science and technology industrial park in a reclaimed steel plant in western Beijing in an effort to boost the development of the country's sci-fi industry.

China has attached great importance to scientific and technological innovation, and is seeing a boom in its sci-fi industry. It will promote Beijing as a central city with global influence in the sci-fi field through the China Science Fiction Conference, which opened in the capital on Nov. 1.

-- All three of the impoverished small ethnic groups in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region are part of the last batch of people announced to have been lifted out of poverty.

It was announced on Nov. 5 that a total of 82 people shook off poverty, including 69 from the Daur ethnic group and 13 from the Ewenki ethnic group. Enditem

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