China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has publicly criticized a northwestern city on Wednesday for its slack response to recent smog. The ministry's pollution inspection team found that Xi'an municipal government had been very slow ...
Tags: Environment Ministry, Weak Smog
Zhang Zhijun, the Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs chief, has extended New Year greetings to people in Taiwan and called on both sides to continue working toward peaceful development of cross-Strait ties. In a New Year message carried by ...
China is planning to bid to host the AFC Asian Cup 2023, said the official website of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) on Wednesday. The tournament will be held in June or July 2023 with a total of 51 matches through 30 days. ...
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A company was sued and will give two million yuan (308,000 U.S. dollars) in compensation for dumping contaminated water, announced by Dalian People's Procuratorate in northeast China's Liaoning Province on Tuesday. China-Japan joint ...
Rescuers are preparing to attempt to reach to 8 of the 17 miners trapped underground for a seventh day, following the collapse of a gypsum mine in Shandong Province. The drilling of the third and the fourth relief holes is underway, which ...
The world's first circular high-speed railway line has begun operation in China's southernmost province, Hainan. Locals are hoping the new rail will further promote the economy of the island, which is already a popular tourism attraction. ...
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Top Chinese leaders watched a New Year gala featuring traditional opera performance on Wednesday evening in Beijing. Leaders of the Communist Party of China and the state, including Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, ...
Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III has approved the country's participation in the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), senior government officials said Wednesday. Presidential Communications Operations ...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for promoting patriotism to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Xi made the remarks during a group study for the history of Chinese nation's patriotism by the Political ...
Tags: President Xi, Patriotism
In China's financial hub Shanghai, kitchen stoves now use a new energy source: shale gas, a clean energy that travels more than 1,600 kilometers to the city's homes via a series of pipelines. China has recently made breakthroughs in shale ...
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Eco-friendly cars and self-driving technology became the hot topics for the international automobile industry in 2015. In January at Detroit's North American International Auto Show, over 40 new vehicles were unveiled. They included a ...
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At least 16 tourists, most of them Chinese, have been taken to hospital after a crash between a bus and a car on a major tourist route in New Zealand's South Island Thursday. Police and ambulance officers were at the scene of the crash, ...
Tags: Chinese Tourists, Bus Crash
Chinese police have taken stronger action against online rumors about terrorist attacks, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, five people have been detained for spreading ...
Tags: Police, Online Terrorist Attack
It's being reported the Chinese government is setting up a 30-billion-yuan fund to help eliminate industrial overcapacity and reconstruct so-called "zombie companies". The money is going to compensate the employees of the "zombie ...
Tags: Special Fund, Zombie Companies
Guangdong Province has launched regular helicopter trips between cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. The so-called "flying taxi" service will reduce travel time between the three cities to about half an hour from over two hours on ...
Tags: Intercity Helicopter