A popular Chinese teenage star Yuan Wang on Tuesday spoke here at a UN youth forum and called for equal access to quality education for young people worldwide.
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang has urged local governments to strengthen supervision on farm product quality and food safety.
Up to 42 percent of Americans believe now is a good time to find a quality job, the highest level in presidential election years since 2004, said a monthly Gallup poll released on Tuesday.
Premium household brands have launched new appliances to make life that much easier
China's exporters are turning to an alternative plan to underpin exports as foreign trade continued to be affected by weak demand, experts said.
Hazard reduction burns taking place in Sydney has meant air pollution in some parts of the city, Fairfax Media reported Friday.
Bid to improve product quality, variety and global promotion of domestic brands
China will implement special measures to establish a more advanced consumer goods sector within two years by increasing product variety and quality and ensuring more domestic brands achieve a global reputation, according to a State Council meeting presided by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
The quality of air and water near a school hit by a pollution scandal in which nearly 500 pupils have fallen ill, is “normal”, Chinese authorities say – though environmentalists and parents remain sceptical.
About 80 per cent of groundwater in the mainland’s major river basins is unsafe for human contact, a survey by the Ministry of Water Resources has found.
Air pollution in Beijing and neighboring regions is not only fueling air purifier sales, but driving people to seek more information about air quality.
An evaluation of the National Air Quality Index (NAQI) data maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) released on Tuesday has revealed that as many as 15 out of the 17 cities that are being monitored fail to meet the ambient air quality standard by a considerable margin. The evaluation, done by Greenpeace India, also found that infrastructure to monitor air pollution is abysmal in India despite such severe levels of pollution.
China's top legislature on Saturday adopted an amendment to the Air Pollution Control Law that will restrict various sources of smog and make information on environmental cleanliness more readily available to the public.
Air and water quality near the site of Wednesday night's blast in north China's Tianjin are being closely monitored as conditions remain unclear.
An Australian entrepreneur said on Tuesday that it is time for the country's agricultural industry to provide major opportunities for Asia's investors while having confidence the high quality Australian brand will be protected in overseas markets.
China's top quality watchdog has given its seal of approval to quality control efforts by Alibaba, the country's largest e-commerce groups.
China is aiming to speed up its environmental protection and improvement, especially to solve the smog trouble in and around Beijing, by taking the advantage of Beijing 2022 efforts.
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