The country's top economic planner is studying a high-level cooperation scheme for Beijing and its neighbors to promote regional integrated development, according to an official.
There could be a silver lining to the cloud of smog that once again shrouded northeast China on Monday, as new insurance schemes may compensate those choking on the polluted air.
The Immigration Department under the Hong Kong Government confirmed on Sunday that a Hong Kong resident was on the missing Malaysina fight bound for Beijing.
Tourism in China's northern regions is reeling from "smog week," as a thick blanket of haze covered Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province from Feb. 20 to Feb. 26.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Beijing's hutongs in the heavy smog on Tuesday, calling for strengthened efforts to address pollution and improved city management.
Smog has blanketed the Chinese capital for at least a week and the Great Hall of the People, where lawmakers will meet next week for the country's parliamentary session, is hardly visible.
Thick smog shrouding Beijing and its surrounding areas becomes heavier as the capital has raised its four-tiered alert system to "orange".
A total of 300 polluting factories in Beijing will be shut down in 2014 to improve the city's air, said the municipal government.
Beijing has seen less air pollution on the eve of China's lunar New Year with less fireworks set off, the municipal environment watchdog said on Friday.
The municipal legislature of Beijing on Wednesday passed a regulation on air pollution control featuring emission controls and harsher penalties in the city's latest effort to battle severe smog.
"Best employee" got a Porsche. The "excellent" few scooped 500,000-yuan stocks and trips to Hong Kong. "Good" employees won cool gadgets like NOTE2 and IPhone 5s.
A potential Beijing subway fare hike is again fueling discussion as political advisors met in the capital city starting Wednesday for an annual session of the Beijing municipal political advisory body.
Authorities in Beijing have ordered high-end clubs in public park grounds to close or downgrade to an acceptable level, a move to curb officials' extravagance.
Passengers taking the subway in Beijing can enjoy classical music by the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) from Tuesday, sources with the center said.
Firework and firecracker celebrations will be banned in Beijing if serious air pollution is forecast for the upcoming Lunar New Year, a festival that features massive use of pyrotechnics.
A court in Beijing on Friday upheld the verdict in the case of a wheelchair-bound man who was sentenced to six years in prison for setting off explosives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in July.
A court in Beijing on Wednesday upheld the verdict in the case of the teenage son of a well-recognized uniformed tenor, who were given ten-year prison term for rape earlier.
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