The public debut of China's newly appointed Vice-Premier Li Keqiang impressed his audience yesterday as he set out his policy visions for the first time.
Newly appointed Vice-Premier Wang Qishan is well aware of the challenges ahead.
"If God had a singing voice, it would sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli," Celine Dion once said. Fitting then that the great Italian tenor has lent his vocal talents to a composition that may be chosen as the official song of the Beijing Olympics.
The oldest person in Tibet celebrated her 117th birthday in Lhasa on Sunday.
Of all the Cabinet-level ministers appointed yesterday, Cai Wu was the only one to walk to the press area to take questions from journalists.
Of all the Cabinet-level ministers appointed yesterday, Cai Wu was the only one to walk to the press area to take questions from journalists.
At 79, NPC deputy Shen Jilan looks sturdier and healthier than someone decades younger.
Ping Yali, the blind athlete who won China's first Paralympic gold medal in 1984, credits her momentous milestone to Deng Pufang.
Millions of Chinese netizens live out fantasy lives in the virtual world - but the boss of the country's biggest online game company is firmly rooted to the ground.
Zhang Yin, once ranked as China's richest woman, has ignited a heated debate at the ongoing annual session of the country's top political advisory body with three "pro-rich" proposals.
Wang Lequan,the Party chief of far northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was called a hardliner against terrorist by the press and said in a recent media interview that he is actually on top of a terrorists' most wanted list.
When the mainland began "crossing the river by feeling each stone", a reference to its opening and reform policies, Taiwan native Justin Lin decided he wanted in. A member of the provincial army at the time, he made his move by swimming across the Taiwan Straits.