Launch of three bullet trains on Jan 12 will bring relief to about 300,000 travelers who spend hours commuting from Beijing to Yanjiao, Hebei province. The start of operations is seen as one more step toward regional integration between Beijing and its surrounding provincial areas.
Seven teenage girls allegedly thrashed and threatened five girl students in Wuqi senior high school on Sept 21, 2014, according to local public security bureau.
Sonam Droma quit her comfortable job in the public sector three years ago to set up an online store that sells traditional goods from the Tibet autonomous region.
Expired meat products totaling 521.2 metric tons from the Shanghai Husi Food Co, which was involved in a food safety scandal last summer, have been destroyed.
More than 20 percent of African people staying in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, are earning more than 30,000 yuan ($4,838) a month, according to a recent survey by Southern Metropolis Daily.
Beijing witnessed an increasing number of days with blue skies in 2014, a clear improvement in air pollution control, while the reduction in the average concentration of PM2.5, a major air pollutant, failed to reach the annual goal by a hair, the municipal environmental watchdog said on Sunday.
As China develops its own smartphone operating systems to beef up security, cellphone users must also provide feedback to help develop the homegrown products, industry players said.
China has announced that procurement prices for tobacco leaves will now be set by supply and demand, in a country where one-third of the world's cigarettes are consumed but where sales of high-end cigarettes have dropped during the recent corruption crackdown.
A new guideline to rein in vehicle expenses for the central government is causing many officials to rethink their commutes.
The deaths of five firefighters during the New Year holiday in Northeast China have raised questions among the public about the level of professionalism among the country's firefighters.
Google Inc's e-mail service, Gmail, was reported out of service in China over the weekend, and it was intermittent and still unstable on Tuesday.
Most young white-collar workers in China lack a sex life and physical exercise, according to a report released by Zhi-lian, one of China's largest online recruitment companies.
The revised Environmental Protection Law that takes effect on Thursday imposes more severe fines and even comes with the possibility of criminal charges against polluters.
The parents of Hugjiltu, an 18-year-old who was executed after being wrongly convicted of raping and killing a woman in 1996, will receive 2,059,621.4 yuan ($332,116) in state compensation, the Higher People's Court of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region ruled on Tuesday.
Chinese lawmakers began to consider a proposed revision to the country's Food Safety Law on Monday, including mandatory labeling of all goods containing genetically modified organisms.
Beijing has started to regulate electric self-balancing scooters after Shanghai and several other major cities recently prohibited their use on roads.
The Ministry of Education will implement stronger scrutiny over the university system's leaders and impose harsher punishments for corruption, the country's top anti-graft agency said on Sunday.
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