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China will further promote family planning policies in a bid to steady birth rates and alleviate poverty in its less affluent counties, according to a new plan.
China's top food watchdog Friday ordered a national food safety overhaul of school dining halls in spring 2012, as the country increases its efforts to prevent food poisoning in schools.
Some Myanmar border residents traveled into China temporarily because of safety concerns fuelled by occasional conflicts between the Myanmar government's army and local ethnic armed forces.
People crowd around Liu Suzhen, a 110-year-old woman, extending their hands to ask for candies at Liu's birthday feast held in Xinmin, Dianjiang county in Southwest China's Chongqing on Feb 9, 2012.
China's police are lengthening a project designed to fight rings that coerce children of a remote ethnic region to pickpocket across the country after the crackdown has so far helped free 1,624 children.
No fatalities or injuries have been reported after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region early Friday, local authorities said.
A Chinese man who helped to cut off panda fur after it was killed 17 years ago has been arrested, China Business News reported on Friday.
More than 50 migrating birds, including two white swans, were discovered dead at a wetland in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province.
Beijing will start construction on or purchase a total of 160,000 low-income housing units in 2012, an official with the Beijing municipal housing authority said Thursday.
A total of 320 million adults, 31 percent of the population, smoke in China, more than the total number of people in the United States, chinanews.com report Friday.
A pharmaceutical company that makes medicines from bear bile has once again drawn fire from animal rights activists as it attempts to go public.
China plans to spend 1.8 trillion yuan ($286 billion) on water conservation projects during the 2011-2015 period, a senior official said Friday.
