The first major meeting between Beijing and a new Japanese government, to be elected on Sunday, is expected in November. Animosity lessens
Thorny issues remain
Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu arrived in Slovenia on Wednesday evening on a two-day official visit to boost economic cooperation between the two countries.
Six Chinese workers with the CITIC-CRCC group company died from a traffic accident in Algeria on Tuesday night, and four others were injured, said a source with the company.
China Everbright Bank Wednesday announced it had received approval from the China Banking Regulatory Commission to raise 11.5 billion yuan (US$1.68 billion) from eight domestic corporate investors.
New US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, who arrived in Beijing on Friday, pledged Wednesday to have a clear view of the shared interests between the United States and China.
Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) leader Li Changchun has urged the nation's publishers to make greater efforts to promote the country's culture worldwide.
China's top trade union leader, Wang Zhaoguo, and a group of visiting US union leaders Wednesday agreed to explore new ways to cooperate.
Twenty-five giant pandas have been born at a protection center for the endangered animal in southwest China's Sichuan since a devastating earthquake hit the province on May 12 last year, local authorities said Wednesday.
China's State Council, or the Cabinet, warned Wednesday of overcapacity in emerging sectors such as wind power, and said the country would move to "guide" the development of sectors troubled by overcapacity and redundant projects.
Police Wednesday launched a crackdown on train ticket scalping on the Internet, as tens of thousands of students prepare to return to school for the fall semester beginning in September.
The total assets of China's banking industry reached 73.7 trillion yuan at the end of June, up 27.7 percent year-on-year and 388 times that of 1978, the year China's began its reforms.
China's aged population is growing at its fastest rate since 1949, the China National Committee on Aging said Wednesday.