Skechers refuted ASPI's allegations of Uygur forced labor with internal audits, concluded Uygurs employees have equal pay and working conditions as their fellow workers, and can leave whenever they choose.

Foxconn, however, refuted the claims and said its employee recruitment process has been running smoothly.

Jack Ma, founder of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba, has refuted some skepticism over the authenticity of Alibaba's Singles Day sales numbers.

Moreover, on its official WeChat account, the company also refuted other rumors including mass layoffs, abandoning cooperation with Huawei, and standing with the US during the China-US trade dispute.

JD refuted the mass layoff rumor and said more than 10,000 positions are expected to be added as JD Logistics provides services to more industry customers.

com refuted the rumors, both about the layoff itself and the supposed terms, saying they are "exaggerations and truth-twisting".

He refuted rumors that GSI won the contract with a lower price and an offer of financial aid to African countries.

"Ma also refuted rumors he was forced to step down.

But, in a statement on Friday, Unicom refuted the report.

Such attempts at politicization have been strongly refuted by various parties.

Some US scholars and think tanks have also published reports based on thorough research data to refute these groundless accusations.

Helmy also refuted the allegation that BRI does not include high-tech cooperation, saying that in fact, China has offered participating countries advanced technologies and dispatched experts to provide technical support and training to the locals, so as to promote the localization of high-tech technologies.

"Online media of the two countries should spread the truth and refute rumors in pandemic reports, and fulfill the responsibility of the media," Han said.

Property giant: Institutional landlords' holdings too small to have key impactOne of China's largest property developers, China Vanke Co, on Tuesday refuted media reports that the entrance of institutional landlords has led to current soaring rental prices.

"Tsinghua's Zhang refuted a view that the campaign is a sort of crackdown on certain industries, or solely aims at reining in big-name companies.

During the interview, he also refuted some negative reports about China from many international observers, "particularly using the Western economic theory to monitor and observe Chinese economy.

The spokesperson refuted some overseas media reports that Chinese regulators will ban overseas listing of companies with VIE structure and demand Chinese companies to delist from US stock exchanges as "complete misunderstanding and misinterpretation.

In a response to the designation, China's central bank refuted the unilateral move, saying the label does not meet the quantitative criteria for the so-called "currency manipulator" set by the US Treasury.

Two commercial banks in Shanghai refuted media reports they will offer lower mortgage rates for first-home buyers, suggesting the current strict home-market policies will continue for a while.

The ministry also refuted Moody's expectation that China's government debt-to-GDP ratio would rise to 40 percent in 2018.

Alex Holmes, chief executive officer of MoneyGram, has also refuted Brown’s claims in a Financial Times interview published on Wednesday.