BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s Ministry of Commerce said the Beijing commerce authority has received ByteDance’s application for a technology export license. Ministry spokesman Gao Feng made the remarks at an online news conference on Thursday. ByteDance is racing to seal a deal with Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc that it hopes will end U.S. government plans to ban its TikTok video-streaming app on security grounds. Reporting by Gabriel Crossley; editing by John Stonestreet Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.