Grads leaving big cities for lower living costs

2011-06-10 07:41:04

More than 22 percent of college graduates choose to leave Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou after three years of toiling in those megacities.

Plan calls for more aid for disabled

2011-06-10 07:37:50

China will strive in the next five years to improve the rehabilitation services offered to the disabled and to make such benefits free for children under the age of 6.

Water supply top concern of flood victims

2011-06-10 07:33:07

Among the hardships flood victims in Wangmo county in Guizhou province must endure, rebuilding their homes is perhaps not the worst.

Party history details lessons from past

2011-06-10 07:05:16

A leading historian of the Communist Party of China (CPC) stressed that the Party has learned lessons from its policy failures and the misjudgment of Party leaders.

China rejects 'cyber spies' accusations

2011-06-10 06:51:11

American cyber-security experts failed to provide sufficient evidence when accusing Chinese cyber spies of trying to break into computers belonging to China specialists and defense contractors in the United States, a Chinese cyber expert told Xinhua on Thursday.

Chinese-Korean memories prompt tours to DPRK

2011-06-10 06:39:53

The first self-driving tour by Chinese tourists to DPRK, made up of 24 cars carrying 90 people, started from Changchun, capital of northeast Jilin Province, on June 9.

Elite high school graduates look abroad

2011-06-10 06:24:21

Zhao Chunyi, an 18-year-old high school graduate, says she didn't hesitate when she decided to go overseas for undergraduate studies.

Blast at central China police office kills one

2011-06-10 06:18:41

Confiscated explosives stored in a police office in central China accidentally set off on Thursday, leaving a police driver dead and two others injured, local authorities said.

Water supply resumes after river contamination

2011-06-09 22:26:07

Water supply resumed Thursday at 11 am in Yuhang district of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, four days after contamination in the Tiaoxi River caused a water-buying panic.

Officials take blame for Shanghai high-rise fire

2011-06-09 21:21:23

Shanghai's Party secretary Yu Zhengsheng and the mayor Han Zheng said Thursday they took blame for the city's deadly fire that killed 58 people and injured 71 others on November 15.

China to pass Japan as top luxury market

2011-06-09 21:11:08

China is expected to replace Japan as the world's top consumer of luxury goods by 2012 due to its growing demand and the declining consumption in Japan, the World Luxury Association (WLA) said Thursday.

Expats feel cheated in TCM purchase

2011-06-09 19:56:57

Foreigners accuse a retail store of Tongrentang Co., Ltd., the largest producer of traditional Chinese medicine in China, of tricking them into buying unnecessary medicine from suspicious sources.