Vice premier stresses food safety supervision
2013-01-25 04:05:56
Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday vowed to strengthen the government's role in supervising food safety and urged authorities to eliminate food safety hazards ahead of the Spring Festival holiday.
Beijing to maintain car quota for 2013
2013-01-25 04:05:56
Beijing will maintain its license plate lottery scheme next year, as well as cap the number of registered cars at 240,000, a local official said Thursday.
Calm over islands dispute urged
2013-01-25 03:07:26
A confrontation between Chinese activists and Japanese vessels took place on Thursday as senior officials of both sides tried to ease territorial tensions over the Diaoyu Islands.
High hopes amid the ski slopes of Davos
2013-01-25 00:27:15
Tian Wei, a presenter with China Central Television, is grateful to the World Economic Forum for giving her a title beginning with "y" ― young global leader. "This is what I like because it begins with 'y'," said Tian, beginning a conversation with me at the annual conference in Davos.
Tibet to invest $563m to protect environment
2013-01-25 00:08:53
The government of the Tibet autonomous region plans to invest more than 3.5 billion yuan ($563 million) in 2013, 10.5 percent more than last year, in environmental protection.
Xinjiang baby recovers from heart disease
2013-01-24 21:00:42
An 8-month-old patient from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region with complicated congenital heart disease is recovering after surgery at a hospital in Beijing on Tuesday.
Economic growth will be below 8% in 2013: experts
2013-01-24 20:08:17
Seventy-two out of 100 surveyed economists hold that China’s economy will expand 7 to 8 percent in 2013 owing to continuous curbs on real estate and a weak international market amid the slow world economic recovery, said a recent white paper launched by Hexun.com and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
IMF lowers global growth estimates
2013-01-24 17:12:20
The International Monetary Fund has cut its global growth estimates for this year and next by 0.1 of a percentage point, on concerns over the eurozone.
Japan faces nuclear shutdown for 2nd time
2013-01-24 16:20:10
Japan may face a total nuclear shutdown in the summer for the second time since the March 2011 Fukushima disaster as the country's two operating reactors close for maintenance and tough new safety checks keep the rest of the fleet offline.
Beijing earns $58b from tourism in 2012
2013-01-24 15:37:19
Beijing's tourism authority said the city earned more than 360 billion yuan ($57.9 billion) from tourism business in 2012, the Beijing Times reported on Wednesday.
DPRK's nuclear test will be mistake: US envoy
2013-01-24 15:30:12
A possible nuclear test by the DPRK will be a "supremely unhelpful and retrograde step", the top US envoy said Thursday.
Bid to educate Congress about China trade
2013-01-24 12:46:39
The top Washington lobby for US companies doing business in China hopes to focus attention on trade between the world's two economic superpowers.