Joint water diversion project launched in Xinjiang

2011-04-15 23:47:21

China launched a joint water diversion project, a long-awaited one on Khorgos, a cross-border river with neighboring Kazakhstan, on Friday (April 15) to benefit the peoples on either bank of the tributary to the Ili River.

CPC encourages college graduate-turned-village heads

2011-04-15 22:57:34

A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has encouraged college graduates serving as village cadres to devote themselves to rural prosperity.

At least 7 killed in SW China colliery gas blast

2011-04-15 21:26:25

At least seven people were killed after a gas outburst hit a coal mine in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday, local authorities said.

Radiation levels in China remain normal

2011-04-15 21:21:13

China's National Nuclear Emergency Coordination Committee said Friday in its daily notice that no obvious change had been found in the levels of radioactive material in the environment and food samples in the Chinese mainland.

China to build more quality farmland: official

2011-04-15 20:10:28

China will construct 400 million mu (about 27 million hectares) of basic, high-standard farmland by 2015 and a total of 800 million mu of farmland by 2020, Vice Minister of Land Resources Wang Shiyuan said Friday.

Three Gorges Dam getting cleaner, safer

2011-04-15 17:31:18

Workers clean the body of the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Central China's Hubei province, April 14, 2011.

Police nab suspect in mass murder

2011-04-15 17:22:29

Police in northeast China's Liaoning Province said Friday afternoon that they had captured a man suspected of killing 10 people, including his father, wife and son.

S China urged to enhance monitoring of rainy weather

2011-04-15 17:08:08

China's flood control authority said that local governments in southern China should keep a close eye on rainy weather and reinforce reservoirs and lakes, as the southern regions have entered the flood season.

China's largest trash-burning power to start operation 

2011-04-15 16:51:22

The largest trash-burning power plant in the country, the Hangu Power plant in North China's coastal city of Tianjin, will begin operating before June.

Medvedev takes high-speed journey to Boao Forum

2011-04-15 16:49:37

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev travels by high-speed train from Sanya to Boao to take part in the 10th Boao Forum for Asian Annual Conference, April 15, 2011.

'Human milk' to hit market in 2 years

2011-04-15 10:59:03

Chinese consumers will soon be able to buy dairy products that are produced by genetically modified cattle and contain most of the nutrients as in human breast milk.

Air Force plane makes emergency landing

2011-04-15 10:29:23

A plane made a safe forced landing on a farmland in East China's Anhui province after some glitches, on the morning of March 27, 2011, PLA Daily reported Friday.