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Groundwater in North China is over exploited by 120 billion cubic meters, an amount equal to the total water reserves in 200 lakes of Baiyangdian, the largest freshwater lake in Hebei, the People's Daily Online reported Friday, citing earlier official statements.
In a bid to secure the safety of dairy products, China's Ministry of Health on Thursday canceled rules that melamine may be added to dairy products in limited amounts, the People's Daily reported.
Huang Guangyu, former chairman of Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings, was on trial Thursday in Beijing on charges of insider trading, illegal business practices and bribery, the Legal Evening News reported.
former Party chief of Mingguang city in Anhui province denied in court on April 13 his earlier oral confession and said he never accepted bribes.
Most pet owners in Haikou, South China’s Hainan province, hope to deal with the dead bodies of their pets in a proper way. When convenience as well as the environment are considered, cremation might be the best choice.
China's media industry output grew 16.3 percent year-on-year to 491 billion yuan ($72 billion) in 2009, with operating revenue from newspaper advertisements increasing 8 percent to 37 billion yuan despite the global economic downturn, according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Wednesday.
A recent survey showed China's middle-class people are under great pressure and do not feel good about their health: 88.9 percent said they were or will be over fatigued, and 53.3 percent said they were not satisfied with their physical and mental conditions.
Beijing's public election for leading officials attracted as many as 670,000 clicks on its application website as of 6:00 pm Wednesday, the first day of its application, with some of the IP addresses from 52 foreign countries including the US, Japan and England, the Beijing Times reported Thursday.
China announced Wednesday that the deposit reserve requirement for financial institutions in the quake-hit areas will be lowered by 1 percentage point to encourage lending for disaster relief and post-quake reconstruction.
Guangdong province started Tuesday trying the donation of human organs in 10 cities including Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Anhui will launch the province's first folk cultural gala to showcase the essence of Chinese folklore and to create a new cultural platform featuring local characteristics.
Cultural relics in quake-hit Yushu were seriously damaged, with two key cultural relics under state protection totally collapsing and other provincial heritage conservation units seriously damaged.
