China is confident of maintaining last year's economic growth momentum based on promising data from its service and technology industries, a top planning official said on Wednesday.
Islamabad will set up a special force of approximately 10,000 troops to protect Chinese people and enterprises along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a visiting senior Pakistani diplomat said on Wednesday.
More than 137 million overseas tourists will visit China in 2016, a jump by 2.5 percent from the previous year.
Construction, real estate development, financial services and consumer services will be included in China's corporate tax reform program.
Shenzhen is to set up a 15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) fund to improve public safety, part of efforts to build a modern, international city.
China has no intention of exercising its veto power over the newly established 57-member Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, according to the lender's president.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi started talks with visiting United States Secretary of State John Kerry this morning, and voiced hope that the ongoing visit will "strengthen our strategic mutual trust" and "eliminate strategic doubts".
Chinese and American experts have low expectations for US Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to China, Laos and Cambodia, where he is seen as trying to seek Beijing's support to punish the Democratic Republic of Korea for its latest nuclear test while looking for countries in Southeast Asia to gang up on China over the South China Sea issue.
Faced with the language barrier and cultural divide, foreigners are finding it hard this year to buy rail tickets in China ahead of Spring Festival.
Many foreign experts living in China say that obtaining a "green card" has not given them all the rights equal to Chinese residents that they thought they could expect.
Thirty-five restaurants selling popular dishes and snacks were found to have used opium poppies as a seasoning, China's top food safety regulator said on Thursday.
Beijingers lost as much as 7,972 yuan on average to traffic jams last year, the highest in the country, said a report.
Indonesia's first high-speed railway, being built by China, will be a significant boost to the country's economy and act as a catalyst for other key infrastructure developments regionally, according to experts following the project.
Newspapers published by the seven regional military commands of the People's Liberation Army ceased operations on Friday, the military's flagship newspaper PLA Daily reported on Wednesday.
Schools have been suspended and emergency workers are on standby as Chinese provinces brace for a week of unusually cold weather.
China's vast southern regions are expected to experience blizzards, sleet and rainfall until Saturday, the national weather authority said on Tuesday. But it said the weather will not likely disrupt transportation.
An online database of legitimate Living Buddhas was launched at a ceremony in Beijing on Monday to help followers of Tibetan Buddhism distinguish between real ones and fakes.
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