As some manufacturers pull out of China's increasingly costly coastal regions and move to the hinterlands, many workers in traditional manufacturing hubs have decided to stay in their home provinces.
The use of reflective glass curtain walls in Shanghai will be banned in apartment, hospital, school, kindergarten and nursing home structures that have two stories or more.
Ai Handan, a 51-year old pharmacist working at a hospital in south China's Yunnan province, has been lamenting the decline of his craft in recent years.
Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks Corp. on Tuesday raised prices in its 500 Chinese mainland stores, the first price hike for its mainland stores in five years.
Dense fog delayed 35 flights at an airport in the central Chinese city of Changsha, Hunan province, Tuesday, leaving about 3,000 passengers stranded, airport authorities said.
Tibet Airlines will launch three regular flights linking cities in the plateau region of Tibet with other Chinese cities this week in a move to meet growing market demand.
A 300-km section of river will be affected by cadmium pollution stretching across 100km of a river in South China.
China's meteorological authority said Tuesday that the country's northern regions remain in the grip of severe cold, with minimum temperatures plunging to minus 40 degrees Celsius.
Three men who allegedly manufactured and sold fake salt made from toxic pesticide residue have appeared in court in Fuyang city, Anhui province.
Several kindergartens in Shanxi province in northern China are charging parents 1,200 yuan ($190) for a palm-reading test that they claim can predict their toddlers' intelligence and potential.
China will overhaul its current food standards, integrating new specifications and weeding out others in a move largely aimed at avoiding overlap and contradiction.
A man braved freezing waters and gave his life to save three people from drowning on Jan 17 in Suiping county, Henan province.