Talks possible next week on World Economic Forum sidelines
Reform of China's armed forces is designed to develop capabilities and produce a leaner, modern fighting unit. Zhao Lei reports.
Punctuality rates of China's biggest airports fell below standards in 2016
Young professionals appear to prefer freelance work to experience a new way of boss-free job and control over work and career growth. But older professionals opt for freelancing mainly to strike a perfect work-life balance.
The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will continue to tighten security in border areas to prevent terrorists from entering or leaving the region illegally in 2017, the chairman of the region said.
Departments and ministries under the State Council, China's Cabinet, responded to a series of public concerns in the past week, mainly concerning the corporate tax burden and prevention of urban flooding.
Move expected to help improve well-being of vulnerable workers in harsh working conditions
Sixteen-year-old Vera Kalinina, from Sudoverf, Russia, was thrilled to see live pandas on Monday at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province.
Helen Boneham adopted Benji, a Labrador puppy, after she started working in Beijing in 2014. Soon after, she began looking into how to take him home to Britain, since she didn't want to leave him behind.
The country's 500,000-plus corruption investigators are being placed under stricter supervision as a regulation to standardize graft probes was adopted on Sunday.
Chinese talent takes the digital world by storm; giants set to invest big time
The world's largest annual human migration, the Spring Festival travel rush, will be even larger this year.
Investors are showing stronger willingness to invest northbound, toward Shenzhen using the new Shenzhen-Hong Kong stocks link, according to figures for first full month of trading, as of Thursday. However, market analysts expect that the southbound flows, toward Hong Kong, are likely to be larger in the first half of this year.
The one-China policy, which has been challenged by US president-elect Donald Trump, is supported by the Democratic and Republican parties, US Secretary of State John Kerry assured Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday.
Momentum is growing in Philippine political circles to prevent South China Sea territorial issues from hampering cooperation with Beijing, observers said.
An earthquake early response and warning system, consisting of about 15,000 observation stations, will cover the mainland by 2020, to facilitate disaster identification and the protection of people's lives, vital infrastructure and utilities.
Links found between air pollution and heart, respiratory and kidney problems
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