Two warships of the 5th Escort Task group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)- Navy left Myanmar Thursday after concluding a five-day friendly call at Yangon's Thilawa Port .
The mission of the two warships -- "Guangzhou" and "Caohu", led by Commander of the Chinese escort task group Zhang Wendan, was aimed at promoting friendly relationship between the two armed forces of the two countries and exchange between the two navies.
A grand see-off ceremony was launched for the two Chi ...
China Thursday called on all relevant parties to make joint efforts to negotiate and discuss the problems of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference China has always advocated the resolution of international disputes through dialogue and negotiation.
She said the situation on the Korean Peninsula is "sensitive and complicated," expressing the hope that all relevant parties remain calm and exercise restraint.
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Wang Zhaoguo, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said here Thursday that China was ready to work with Mauritius to push forward bilateral ties.
Wang, also vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, made the remarks when meeting with Mauritian President Anerood Jugnauth.
He said China was willing to make concerted efforts with Mauritius to deepen political mutual trust and cement economic and trade cooper ...
Former U.S. President James Carter will visit China next week, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday.
Besides Beijing, Carter will also visit China's economic hub, Shanghai, and central China's Hunan Province during his six-day visit that starts Sept. 5, Jiang told a regular press briefing.
Carter is scheduled to attend a conference on international sister cities in Shanghai and the fourth China Zhijiang International Peace and Culture Festival in Hunan, Jiang said. &$
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, will visit China as a British special representative for international trade and investment from Sept. 2 to Sept. 11, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday.
Prince Andrew will meet with senior Chinese government officials and entrepreneurs to discuss ways to expand bilateral trade, Jiang told a regular press briefing.
Jiang hailed the development of China-Britain trade and economic cooperation in recent years, adding that it has huge potential ...
China said Thursday the details concerning a suspected Chinese fishing boat sunk by a Republic of Korea (ROK) cargo ship are still unknown.
"The situation concerning the boat's crew members is unknown," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular press conference.
All crew members of the fishing boat are unaccounted for.
The suspected Chinese fishing boat sunk in waters off the ROK coast at around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday.
The boat's name and the exact number of sailo ...
A 107-strong Chinese military unit set off from here Thursday morning on a military plane for anti-terrorism drills in south Kazakhstan.
The drills will be conducted under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The unit will be the first People's Liberation Army (PLA) unit to arrive at the drills named "Peace Mission 2010," the Ministry of National Defense said Thursday.
The first PLA unit to leave for the drills took a train Tuesday from Zhurihe, Inner Mongolia, ...
China stressed Thursday its assistance to flood-hit Pakistan is sincere, timely and unconditional.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu made the remarks at a regular press briefing.
She said China will continue to offer Pakistan support and help in Pakistan's reconstruction.
China is Pakistan's intimate neighbor and an all-weather partner, Jiang said.
The Chinese people feel sympathy for the Pakistani people as they suffer the effects of the floods, she said.
According to the sp ...
Jiang Shusheng, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, left here Thursday for a visit to Canada, Russia and Belarus.
During his trip, Jiang is scheduled to attend the conference of G20 parliament heads to be held in Canada, the sixth Baikal economic forum in Russia, and visit Belarus.
Jiang paid the visit as guest of Noel Kinsella, speaker of the Canadian Senate, Sergei Mironov, Russia's chairman of Federation Council and Vladimir Andreichenko, Belar ...
Thomas E. Donilon, U.S. deputy national security adviser and Lawrence Summers, U.S. director of the White House's National Economic Council will pay a visit to China from Sept. 5 to 8.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu made the announcement here Thursday.
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Myanmar's top leader, Than Shwe, will pay a state visit to China from Sept. 7 to 11, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday.
Than Shwe, chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, will visit China at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao, Jiang told a regular press conference.
During Than Shwe's stay in Beijing, Hu will hold talks with him, Jiang said, adding that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will also meet him.
Than Shwe will also visit the 2010 Sha ...
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Performers from Pyongyang Art Troupe visit the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 1, 2010. Over 40 performers from Pyongyang Art Troupe of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) visited Beijing recently. They will stage singing and dancing performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in late October. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
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A bright, unidentified flying object that was visible for at least three hours slowly moving to the west was witnessed over the skies in southwestern Haiyan County of eastern China’s Zhejiang Province on Aug. 31.
The unidentified flying object that constantly twinkled was not at a high altitude and was much larger and brighter than stars around it.
Many people witnessed the UFO at the scene that evening.
"I have no idea what it is," a witness said.
The reporter found that not onl ...
No excessive drug residue was detected from 66 randomly-tested samples on lobsterlings and products labeled pollution-free, according to the Hubei Aquatic Products Bureau on Sept. 1.
The provincial department yesterday informed the public that it has randomly tested 66 samples from 40 breeding bases, 12 wholesale markets and two supermarkets on lobsterlings and pollution-free products across the province and no excessive drug residues were detected and all tested samples were qualified.
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China and the European Union (EU) here Thursday pledged to promote the development of bilateral ties during talks between their diplomatic chiefs.
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Changzhou City of Jiangsu Province, which had been famous for its "e-governance" in recent years, introduced another innovation. From the Aug. 31, the Changzhou Internet spokesman Web site(www.czbbs.gov.cn) was launched officially and 76 institutions that involve people’s livelihoods and draw high attention from netizens have become the first institutions listed on the Web site.
Changzhou established its "Internet Spokesman" system in since June this year. The main duties of each "Internet ...
China's Ministry of Health will provide free measles vaccine inoculation from Sept. 11 to Sept. 20 for 100 million children all over the country to eliminate measles infection by 2012, which will be the fourth infection eliminated by China, said Hao Yang, vice director of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau of the Ministry of Health.
Hao said a nationwide immunization activity targeting children aged 8 months to 14 years would be carried out in all provinces of China. All children with ...
Two survivors in the bloody August 23 hostage crisis are willing to cooperate with the Philippine government's investigation, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Thursday.
"There are two survivors who are willing to be interviewed. We are making arrangements," de Lima told reporters, after emerging from the initial meeting of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC). The IIRC is a multi-sectoral body tasked to probe last week's hostage crisis that left eight tourists from Hong ...
A once war-ravaged Chinese county in northeast China will build a memorial park on facilities left behind by the Japanese invaders of World War II, to commemorate the invasion and Russian assistance, county authorities said Thursday.
Sunwu County in Heilongjiang Province, separated from Russia by the Heilongjiang River, was the base for more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers.
The invaders left behind 160 war facilities, 24 of which are government-protected cultural relics.
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The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province late Wednesday has climbed to eight, and 40 people are still missing, local government said Thursday.
As of 2:30 p.m., rescuers had retrieved eight bodies and saved 23 people from the rubble of homes in Wama Village of Longyang District, the city government of Baoshan said in a press release.
It said the accident happened at about 10:20 p.m., trapping 71 people from 20 families.
Rescuers ar ...
More than 3,000 human remains were recently uncovered at one of the construction sites of the Yichang-Badong Highway in a village near Yichang City, Hubei Province.
Local historians identified the remains as those of the officers and soldiers of the 4th Reserve Division of the Kuomintang's 75th Army Corps who died in the war against Japan (1937-1945), according to a report by the China News Service.
The construction site is located on a hillside behind the office of the village committee. ...
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During his stay in Beijing, Yanukovych will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao Thursday afternoon, and m ...
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Chinese and European Union (EU) officials held a high-level strategic dialogue on Tuesday amid heightened international discussion on ...
A government official in southwest China, whose alleged graft diary was posted online, told a court Thursday that his behavior was a breach of discipline rather than the law.
Former tobacco official Han Feng, 53, appeared at Nanning Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, charged with taking bribes worth 1.01 million yuan (148,324 U.S. dollars).
The scandal around Han was dubbed "Diarygate" by the Chinese media. His diary appeared online in Marc ...
Seven people are dead and eight are in hospital after a blowout on a truck caused a pile-up involving five vehicles in northeast China Wednesday, the local government announced Thursday.
The accident happened at around 2:30 p.m. when the truck's tire burst in Jianshan District of Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, a spokesperson for the city government told a news conference Thursday.
Three people died at the scene and 12 were injured, the spokesperson said.
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&$Rescuers try to move a block of mud and rocks at Wama Village of Longyang District in Baoshan City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 2, 2010. The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in Yunnan Province late Wednesday has climbed to four, and 44 people are still missing, local government said Thursday. As of 10 a.m. Thursday, rescuers had saved 23 people from the rubble of ho ...The arrest of a foreigner who knowingly bought a large amount of fake designer clothing in China for infringement of intellectual property was approved recently, according to Hangzhou Customs.
Hangzhou Customs and local police jointly tracked down the man who had in his possession more than 8,000 suits of counterfeit Nike and Adidas sportswear.
It is said that this was the first infringement case related to foreigners that Hangzhou Customs has found.
The man was detained on July 20. H ...
Giant pandas remain an endangered species despite the births of 23 cubs in Chinese zoos over the past two months, a leading panda researcher in southwest China's Sichuan Province said Thursday.
"The baby boom began in early July, with 23 cubs born in captivity -- 14 at the Wolong research center, eight in Chengdu and one in Beijing," said Zhang Zhihe, director of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.
Since the boom, the total number of giant pandas in captivity at ...
The death toll from the massive mudslide in Zhouqu County, in northwest China's Gansu Province, has risen to 1,471 as of Wednesday after four more bodies were retrieved, with 294 others still missing, rescue headquarters said Thursday.
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The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province late Wednesday has climbed to four, and 44 people are still missing, local government said Thursday.
As of 10 a.m., rescuers had saved 23 people from the rubble of homes in Wama Village of Longyang District, the city government of Baoshan said in a press release.
It said the accident happened at about 10:20 p.m., trapping 71 people from 20 families.
Rescuers are still searching for the miss ...
This year's eighth tropical storm, dubbed Lionrock, made landfall at Zhangzhou city in east China's Fujian Province early Thursday morning, local meteorologists said. Its central pressure reached 990 hectopascals upon landing and the maximum wind power reached Force 9 where the center of Lionrock passed.
Affected by Lionrock, heavy rain occurred in the coastal areas along Zhangzhou and the rain was the heaviest in Dongshan and Zhangpu counties.
Local meteorologists have warned residents t ...
An official daily of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Thursday praised the unofficial visit paid by top leader Kim Jong Il to China in late August.
Kim's two unprecedented visits to China this year indicated the deep friendship between the DPRK and China, Rodong Sinmun said in an editorial.
The visit in August is an event of great significance to further consolidating and developing the historic and traditional DPRK-China friendship, it noted.
The trip deepened the frien ...
Investors worldwide have got a breather Wednesday after a week of economic woes, as both China and the United States reported better-than-expected factory data.
The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said that PMI, or purchasing managers' index, a major gauge of economic activity, rose to 51.7 percent in August, up 0.5 percentage points from July. The figure has greatly eased earlier fears of a precipitous decline of the world's second largest economy.
Later in the day, investor ...
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Tropical storm Lionrock, the eighth of this year, made la ...
Three people died and 57 others were missing when landslides hit a village in Baoshan City of southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday night, local government said Thursday.
The landslides happened at Wama Village of Longyang District, the provincial government's emergency office said in a statement.
It said the area was home to 20 families of about 82 people.
Rescuers saved 11 of the villagers in time, while 11 others were working away from home and were therefore unaffected by the ...
All 246 tourists were evacuated Wednesday after being stranded for more than two days on an island in east China's Zhejiang Province due to approaching tropical storms.
The tourists, including six Russians and more than 30 students, boarded three speed boats Wednesday and arrived at a mainland harbor in the afternoon.
They had been staying in hotels in Nanji Island, a popular tourist destination in Wenzhou City of Zhejiang, after local transport authorities suspended ship services Monday ...
The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) said on its website Wednesday that the country's Red Cross societies have received cash and materials donations equal to 2.32 billion yuan (about 342 million U.S. dollars) by Aug.17 for disaster relief efforts in quake-hit Yushu of northwest China's Qinghai Province.
The RCSC said so far, donations in cash and materials equivalent to 2.12 billion yuan had been delivered for reconstruction projects in Yushu, including 18.78 million yuan in cash and materia ...
China has taken a new move to prevent wrongful convictions in death sentence cases and limit the number of death sentences by ensuring the appeals process for the condemned.
According to a judicial interpretation published by the Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Supreme People's Procuratorate on Tuesday, once an appeal has been accepted by a higher court, those sentenced to death are not allowed to stop it.
"In some cases, defendants are threatened by police officers and judges involved ...
The "straddle bus," a newly-developed vehicle that may reduce traffic jams by about 30 percent and is less costly than urban subway system has theoretically proved workable, its designer said Wednesday.
A work group led by Professor Zhang Jianwu from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University conducted the research that proved it could work, said Song Youzhou, the vehicle's inventor and chairman of the Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment Company (SHFPE).
The ...
After living through major tragedies, such as the Wenchuan Earthquake that claimed over 68,000 lives and the Zhouqu mudslides that left 1,400 dead, the new semester starting Wednesday may bring a much-needed sense of normality to the affected students.
Senior high schoolers of the mudslides-hit Zhouqu County, northwest China's Gansu Province, began a new semester on a usual date, Sept. 1, which is the first day of school in many parts of China, but at a place 400 km south of Zhouqu, the prov ...
A local smoking-control law came into effect Wednesday in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province.
The law covers all of Guangzhou City. There, smoking in most public places, like offices, conference rooms, halls and elevators, is strictly prohibited.
Places of business larger than 150 square meters or having more than 75 seats may designate an area for smokers.
Those who break the law will be fined 50 yuan (about 7.35 U.S. dollars) and businesses not meeting their ob ...
China and Kenya pledged here on Wednesday to enhance exchanges between the parliaments of the two countries in experience of state governing and legislation supervision, and strengthen coordination in international and regional parliamentary organizations.
The move came after Kenneth Marendethe, speaker of Kenya's national assembly met Chen Zhili, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, late in the day.
During the meeting, ...
China donated a number of acrobatics props to a Tanzanian arts institute on Tuesday in order to boost cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries.
Speaking at the hand-over ceremony held at the Tanzania's seventh world heritage site in the east of the country, Director of Culture Development of Ministry of information, Culture and Sports of Tanzania Herman Mwansoko expressed gratitude to China's assistance to his country in the sectors of cultural and education, as the bilate ...
Chinese and European Union (EU) officials held a high-level strategic dialogue on Tuesday amid heightened international discussion on where China is headed after displacing Japan as world's second-biggest economy.
Catherine Ashton, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, and State Councilor Dai Bingguo co-chaired the one-day, closed-door meeting in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province.
The dialogue is to outlay the foundation for the coming Chi ...
by Xinhua writers Hao Yalin, Wang Li
China Wednesday called for the European Union to have a balanced, objective, comprehensive understanding of the world's largest developing country during an upgraded strategic dialogue held in the underdeveloped province of Guizhou.
State Councilor Dai Bingguo told the EU side that despite rapid economic growth, China has no possibility to be arrogant, nor is it pretending to be a richer or poorer country than it actually is, with unfathomable strategi ...
China on Wednesday rejected reports of the presence of over 11,000 Chinese troops in northern Pakistan, saying that such "groundless reports" were made with "ulterior motives."
"We believe the attempts of some people to fabricate stories to provoke China-Pakistan or China-India relations are doomed to fail," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu in a statement.
The comment came in response to recent reports of some American and Indian press that China had deployed more than 10,000 t ...
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Wednesday asked Party and government officials to carefully use the power in their hands and to take responsibility to serve the people.
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He Guoqiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting on central inspection work.
Head of the country's discipline and supervision work, He asked officials of local governments, especially those at the county level, to cooperate with central government ...
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Fishing boats stay in harbor at Shadi Village of Yongning Town, southeast China's Fujian Province, on Sept. 1, 2010. Tropical storm Lionrock will bring heavy rains and strong gales to southeast China's coastal areas, closely following tropical storm Namtheun which hit Fujian Province a day ago, local authorities said Wednesday. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)
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Investigators and forensic experts from Hong Kong of China work at the site of tourist bus hijacking in Manila, capital of the Philippines, Sept. 1, 2010. The bus carrying 23 Hong Kong tourists was hijacked by a dismissed Philippine policeman on Aug. 23. The Philippine police killed the hijacker in an operation to rescue the hostages on the night of Aug. 23. But eight Hong Kong ...
At least four people were injured Wednesday in a gas outburst at an office building in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Compressed gas gushed out of a container at about 5 p.m. on the second floor of a 20-story office building in Nanning, the regional capital.
The building's air-conditioning equipment and fire-fighting facilities were located on the second floor, and the gas was likely carbon dioxide, Wen Shourong, vice mayor of Nanning, told a Xinhua reporter at the scene. ...
China's top leaders have congratulated Vietnam on the celebration of its 65th National Day.
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao have respectively sent congratulatory messages to their Vietnamese counterparts.
The Vietnamese leaders include General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vi ...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will arrive in Hong Kong on Friday, paying an official visit, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said on Wednesday.
Donald Tsang, Hong Kong's chief executive, will meet Yanukovych on Saturday at the government house.
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All crew members went missing after a Chinese fishing boat was sunk by a South Korean cargo ship in waters off west coast of South Korea later Wednesday, the consulate office of the Chinese Embassy to South Korea told Xinhua.
Seoul's Coast Guard informed the embassy that the Chinese fishing boat, whose name and detailed conditions remain unknown, was sunk by the 1,250-ton cargo ship Ocean Ace No. 6, owned by South Korea's HC freight company, in waters about 68 sea miles ( about 126 km) west o ...
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Wednesday expressed "serious concern" about the United States' proposed strengthening of its trade remedy practices.
The MOC said the move will undermine order in international trade.
U.S. attempts to increase exports should rely on improvements in its industrial competitiveness and an open international trade environment, the ministry said in a statement on its website.
The U.S. should not limit imports with trade remedy measures, the statement added. ...
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Top Chinese political advisor Jia Qinglin Wednesday called for the nation's u ...
China Wednesday implemented a system requiring mobile phone users to provide their real names when buying a telephone number, in a move to combat spam and fraud.
As of Wednesday, new customers will have to register with their identity card numbers or other valid documents when buying a pre-paid SIM card from mobile phone operators.
Foreigners living in China are also required to register with their passports or ID cards to subscribe.
In Beijing, street newspaper stands w ...
A former prison warden and four other prison staff have been charged with dereliction of duty in connection with a prison break that left a policeman dead in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in November 2009.
Zhang Heping, former head of the No. 2 Prison in Hohhot, was charged along with former chief of the second section Wang Jun, policemen Xu Fumeng and Liu Wenzhi and gate guard Qian Guojun, said a spokesman for Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's procuratorate.
Four prisone ...
Rescuers continued to search for six people missing in the sea off the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province Wednesday, after a French oil tanker collided with a Chinese cargo vessel Tuesday.
All seven crew members aboard the Chinese vessel were thrown overboard when the collision occurred at about 11:10 a.m. Tuesday near Ningbo City. Only one crew member was rescued.
The 800-tonne vessel had completely sunk by Wednesday afternoon.
"Rescuers are finding it hard to go under the water t ...
A chemical spill left an unknown number of people injured in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Wednesday, local authorities said.
The accident took place at about 5 p.m. in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Highway Administration in Nanning, the regional capital, a spokesman of the local fire-fighting squad said.
Medical workers have arrived at the site.
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The South Pacific Tourism Organization (SPTO) and Tourism Fiji are collaborating with Air Pacific in commissioning the China Central Television (CCTV) to undertake a TV documentary program on Fiji's tourism attractions for the Chinese and other Asian markets.
SPTO said on Wednesday that they initiated a series of negotiations with the CCTV officials at the Shanghai World Expo and secured the commitment of the China's national television station to send a team of crew to undertake the project ...
A bus collided with two trucks in the northeastern Chinese city of Shuangyashan Wednesday, but information on casualties was not immediately clear other than that the bus driver had died, local authorities said.
The accident took place at about 3:30 p.m., and a rescue operation was going on, the city's emergency affairs office said in a statement.
"It is not clear how many passengers were on board," it said.
Sources said the bus driver had died and the collision had left some others dea ...
As far as land grabs go, it was quiet and secret -- and the perpetrators almost got away with it.
Almost 200 Chinese city government officials stealthily changed their identities on the administrative computer system and immediately became eligible for a countryside housing plot of up to 144 square meters.
The civil servants had taken advantage of China's long established hukou -- or household registration -- system, which identifies everyone as a "rural" or "urban" resident de ...
China Express Air (CEA), which was ordered to halt flights after a landing scare Saturday, said it will strive to complete required safety inspections within five days so it can apply to resume operations.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) Saturday ordered the airline to halt operations and conduct safety checks after the right wing of a Bombardier CRJ 200 regional jet scraped the ground on landing at Guiyang Airport in southwest China early on Aug. 28, CEA said in a statement ...
Tropical storm Lionrock will bring heavy rains and strong gales to southeast China's coastal areas, closely following tropical storm Namtheun which hit Fujian Province a day ago, local authorities said Wednesday.
Tropical storm Lionrock had weakened but was moving quicker at 10 p.m. Tuesday, heading towards the coastal cities of Guangdong and Fujian provinces, according to Guangdong Provincial observatory.
Moving at a speed of 83 kilometers per hour, Lionrock is expected to make landfall i ...
During World War II, China was the major battlefield in the fight against the Japanese fascist aggression as well as the major oriental battlefield in the war against fascism worldwide.
The Chinese people suffered tremendously in the war and made an indelible contribution.
As the major battlefield of the Pacific War, China inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese, costing them 1.5 million troops, up to 70 percent of the total Japanese troops killed during World War II. The country's resi ...
China's "textile town" Shaoxing County is set to reduce its annual textile printing and dyeing capacity by 710 million meters of textile before September 15, in a bid to save energy and cut emissions, sources with the county government said Wednesday.
The reduction is about 5 percent of the current capacity of the county, which is located in east China's Zhejiang Province.
The local government has closed down 600 sets of illegal and outdated textile printing and dyeing facilities in 40 com ...
China needs to raise the proportion of Chinese brands in its exports, to improve the nation's trade quality and efficiency, a senior official said here Wednesday.
Chinese brands make up less than 10 percent of China's exports, said Fu Shuangjian, deputy director at the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), at the 2010 China Trademark Annual Meeting, which kicked off Wednesday in Xining, capital city of west China's Qinghai Province.
Excluding overseas invested companies, l ...
The Pacific island nation of Samoa is to give 50,000 U.S. dollars in aid to China to assist the regions affected by flooding over the past month.
The Samoa government said it wishes to help China because of the assistance it has extended to Samoa in past years, Radio New Zealand International reported on Wednesday.
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Many Australian political analysts have forecasted that Australia's major political parties will seek to continue to build a close and productive relationship with China, and believe this process will continue even with a minority government.
"Both major parties understand the importance of building and maintaining Australia's close relationship with China, especially in terms of trade and defense," Professor Zareh Ghazarian, senior political analyst of Monash University in Australia told Xin ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao has formally appointed six new ambassadors to foreign countries, according to a statement from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) on Wednesday.
Hu made the appointments in line with decision made by the NPC Standing Committee.
Liu Hanming was appointed ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, replacing Chen Ligang.
Gong Jianzhong was appointed ambassador to Ghana, replacing Yu Wenzhe.
Gu Ziping was appointed ambassador to Slovakia, re ...
A 3-carat diamond ring worth nearly 2.2 million yuan was stolen by a foreign man from a Tiffany's jewelry store at the Malls at Oriental Plaza in Beijing on Aug. 27.
On Aug. 30, a netizen posted a thread on a Web site saying that "a diamond ring worth more than 2.1 million yuan was stolen at the Malls at Oriental Plaza on Wangfujing Avenue," which led to hot discussions.
The netizen said a foreign man visited the jewelry store many times to see the diamond ring and stealthily substituted ...
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&$Photo taken on Sept. 3, 2010 shows the scene of a traffic accident on the Changping Speedway in northeast China's Jilin Province. A bus ran into the rear of a car and then collided head-on with a truck on the speedway Friday afternoon, leaving 26 people dead. (Xinhua/Xiao Xiao)&$
&$Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo (R) meets with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Oliveira Guterres in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)&$
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&$Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki (R) meets with Chen Zhili, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, Sept. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhao Yingquan)&$
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&$Lufthansa's Airbus A380 arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport for the first time in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 2, 2010. The airplane, Lufthansa's third Airbus A380, will fly from Frankfurt to Beijing regularly. (Xinhua/Ma Ruzhuang)
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&$A Huaxia jet's wings scraped the ground while landing Saturday. (Photo: Globaltimes.cn)&$
&$Rescuers work at the scene of landslide at Dashifang Village in Baoshan City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 2, 2010. The landslide happening on the night of Sept. 1 has left at least fifteen people dead and 33 others missing. (Xinhua/Chen Haining)&$
&$President Benigno Aquino Jr., gestures during a news conference at the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila August 18, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)&$
&$A dolphin frolics in the waters of Sanniang Bay, Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. (Photo by Huo Yan / China Daily)&$
&$Cai Wu (C), honorary chairman of the China Friendship Association of Cultural Circles, arrives at Taipei to visit southeast China's Taiwan, Sept. 2, 2010. Photo: Xinhua&$
&$A dolphin frolics in the waters of Sanniang Bay, Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Huo Yan / China Daily&$
&$Li Xinyi dances during the 2010 reality TV show The Top Talent on Henan TV on Aug 22. Li won the contest. Li Yang / for China Daily&$
&$Visitors are captivated by the State Grid Pavilion's Magic Box, which uses 112 LED panels to create a visual illusion for visitors. Song Weixing / for China Daily&$
&$Left: Chen Xinnian on Tuesday shows how he managed to build the underground apartment. Right: Chen Xinnian (left) and his wife Liu Shula dance in their underground apartment in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Tuesday. Photos by Yan Huazhuang / for China Daily&$
&$ Rescuers work at the scene of landslide at Dashifang Village in Baoshan City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 2, 2010. The landslide happening on the night of Sept. 1 has left at least eight people dead and 40 others missing. (Xinhua/Chen Haining)&$
&$Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton in Beijing, capital of China, on Sept. 2, 2010. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin)&$
&$Photo taken on Sept. 1, 2010 shows the fifth strategic dialogue between China and the European Union in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province. China and the EU opened their fifth strategic dialogue Wednesday in Guiyang. State Councilor Dai Bingguo and visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton co-chaired the one-day closed-door meeting, during which the two sides wil ...
&$Kim Yong Nam (R), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of DPRK, meets with visiting Lt. General Zhang Youxia, commander of the PLA's Shenyang Military Command, in Pyongyang, DPRK, Sept. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/Yao Ximeng)&$
&$Dark cloud is seen over downtown Shanghai, east China, Aug. 31, 2010. Heavy rains and thunderstorms are predicted to hit Shanghai as this year's six, seventh and eighth tropical storms are active at sea in east China. (Xinhua/Pei Xin)&$
&$ Li Changchun (2nd L), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, visits the 17th Beijing International Book Fair in Beijing, capital of China, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)&$
&$Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) meets with Donald Tsang Yam-Kuen, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in Moscow, capital of Russia, Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua)&$
&$China's special envoy for Korean peninsula affairs Wu Dawei (R front) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)&$
&$ A woman struggles against the wind and rain in advance of tropical storm Namtheum on Tuesday in Shatian town in East China's Fujian province. [Wei Peiquan / Xinhua]&$
&$Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (R) meets with his Ecuadoreancounterpart Ricardo Patino in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 13, 2010. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)&$
&$Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (2nd L) meets with his Ecuadorean counterpart Ricardo Patino (1st R) in Beijing, ...
&$On July 11, the world’s first specialized robot system capable of being used in minimally invasive spine surgery was put into clinical trials in Xinqiao hospital in Chongqing. The robot system with complete independent intellectual property rights was jointly researched and developed by the Third Military Medical University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which indicated a new era of domestically produced robots ...
&$Visitors on a boat roamed the artificial wetlands covered with flower beds in the Baihe River.&$
&$On July 9, children learn ballet in the National Center for the Performing Arts, in which refined arts can be experienced and learned during the summer vacation from July 7 to August 31.
(&$&$Photo by Chen Bin:, People’s Daily, July 9,2010. Editor: Li Mu&$&$)&$
&$On July 11, children donate their saved pocket-money to th ...