Four sentenced over school bus accident
2015-12-04 17:13:37
Four people were sentenced to prison terms on Friday over a fatal school bus accident that killed two children in May in Guangxi.
Pingdu's big strides in major economic reforms
2015-12-04 15:56:16
Pingdu, a county-level city in Qingdao, Shandong province, is pressing ahead with reforms in industrial restructuring and improvements in infrastructure and public services, according to the local government.
800 million cubic meters south-north water delivered to Beijing
2015-12-04 15:32:47
A total of 812 million cubic meters of water from the south-to-north water diversion project have been delivered to Beijing as of Thursday, the municipal authorities announced on Friday.
Gene therapy cures adult leukemia patient in China
2015-12-04 15:28:24
Chinese doctors have cured a patient of leukemia using gene therapy, a hospital in Chongqing announced Friday.
Pingdu's big strides in major economic reforms
2015-12-04 08:00:12
Pingdu, a county-level city in Qingdao, Shandong province, is pressing ahead with reforms in industrial restructuring and improvements in infrastructure and public services, according to the local government.
China records lowest colliery death rate
2015-12-04 11:08:17
China has recorded its lowest ever annual colliery death rate per million tonnes of coal produced.
China sees more pneumoconiosis cases in 2014
2015-12-04 11:04:25
China recorded 26,873 new pneumoconiosis cases in 2014, a 16 percent increase from the previous year, the country's health authority said on Thursday.
Bringing it all back home
2015-12-04 07:57:10
Three years ago, five "left-behind" children died after they crawled into a refuse container on a freezing winter day and lit a fire to keep warm, but were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes.
Locals have tradition of drying foods during harvest season
2015-12-04 09:50:44
Villagers dry sweet potato starch vermicelli in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, Dec 3, 2015. Local villagers have a tradition of drying sweet potato starch vermicelli and fish during the harvest season in December.
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei govts to cooperate on emissions control
2015-12-04 07:46:38
The heavily polluted cluster of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province signed a cooperation framework to control air, water and soil pollution.
Web promotion of prostitution to be targeted
2015-12-04 07:38:33
The police will set up a special task force to investigate and squelch the online promotion of prostitution, which has been expanding via social media.
Two more spells of smog predicted to sweep North China
2015-12-03 19:55:59
Cities in North China are forecast to experience another two spells of smog in the coming weeks due to windless weather, but not as severe as the one that enveloped Beijing since Nov 27, the national weather authority said on Thursday.