Mainland tourists are expected to make the upcoming Golden Week truly golden. A record 200 million travelers are set to drop an estimated 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) on vacations during the week.
Beijing's Military Parade Village - the temporary home of the military troops who will perform in the upcoming National Day parade - opened its gates to foreign media for the first time Thursday.
Visiting top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo on Thursday met with US President Barack Obama at the White House on bilateral relations and international and regional issues of common concern.
Nearly a quarter million teachers in China do not have the educational background required by the government, but that number is steadily decreasing.
Wind power alone can potentially allow China to reduce emissions by 30 percent in about twenty years, according to a prominent science magazine today.
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's People's Congress met Thursday with US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the highly anticipated visit by the top Chinese legislator.
China will not end its stimulus initiatives at a time when the global economy is starting to see "slow and zigzag" recovery from its free fall, Premier Wen Jiabao assured global business leaders Thursday. Full text of Wen's speech
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As China's Health Ministry has designated Beijing, Shanghai cities and Guangdong Province as the first places to use the newly produced domestic A(H1N1) vaccine, some epidemic disease experts still argue about its safety.
Although China's economy has managed to expand relatively fast, it still faces the challenge of making it develop in a more balanced, coordinated and sustainable way, Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley's Asian Chairman, said here Thursday.
Keeping a cool nerve facing multiple challenges, Alcoa CEO remains upbeat about the prospect of joint overseas M&As from China, while keeping all options open in expanding its China footprints.
The China Greentech Report 2009, released Thursday in north China's coastal city Dalian, said China's green technology market would attract more investment and estimated a market with a potential value up to one trillion U.S. dollars annually.