Government boosts investment to give officials global outlook.
Former official Chu Yanli was confused - she had never before been asked to receive a civilian guest from the United States.
The Palace Museum, also well known as the Forbidden City, is taking major steps to repair its image after a series of scandals last year, said its new curator.
Like many couples, a ram and a doe had their wedding on an auspicious day: Valentine's Day.
Xie Kele surfs the Internet after work. But instead of looking for clues to track down criminals, the 29-year-old police officer is trying to find his better half.
Vice-Premier Li Keqiang said that more effort should be made to save land and resources in order to reduce consumption.
A man killed one person and injured three others with a knife in a county hospital in north China's Hebei province Tuesday, local police said.
Chinese courts sentenced 74,670 criminals involved in 69,244 drug-related cases last year, said Sun Jun, spokesman with China's Supreme People's Court.
Six miners were killed in a colliery gas explosion Tuesday in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, local authorities said.
Tiantian bought a bunch of red roses for Valentine's Day to give not to his partner, but to elderly people in a retirement home in the southern city of Guangzhou.
China produced 435 animated TV programs, or 261,224 minutes of animated material, in 2011, up 18 percent year-on-year, China's TV watchdog said Tuesday.
The open areas of the Palace Museum will continue to increase up to 76 percent from its current 45.79 percent, and other new actions will also be launched to recover the museum's impaired image from a series of scandals that occurred last year.