In the first two month of this year, 10,854 people died in accidents on the Chinese mainland, down 15.2 percent from the same period last year, said a report posted on the website of the State Administration of Work Safety on Thursday.
Guo Jingyi, a former senior inspector at the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, admitted all charges in court in Beijing on Thursday, including taking 8.44 billion yuan ($1.23 million) in bribes, of which 1.65 million yuan ($214,700) is in real estate property, the Beijing Times reported.
The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), China's food safety watchdog agency, has issued two emergency notices to its bureaus nationwide to crack down on the use of swill-cooked oil and disposable chopsticks, both highly unhealthy products.
Every year, two to three million tons of swill-cooked dirty oil, soaked with poisonous carcinogens have sneaked back to our dining tables.
While the big group pursuing education in foreign countries is getting bigger, the post-90s generation, the group's major force, is not just blindly following the flow.
The Shanghai municipal government allotted 170 billion yuan ($25 billion) on urban facilities in 2009, an all-time high, as the city gears up preparation for the upcoming World Expo.
Forbes magazine has published a revealing rich list of the world’s top ten youngest billionaires, two of whom are Chinese born with silver spoons, Britain’s Times reported Tuesday.
Frontier police officers at a Shanghai seaport, one of the country’s busiest, were equipped with guns on Thursday as the eastern municipality beefs up border security for the upcoming World Expo, the China News Agency reported.
A golf tournament, featuring professional players competing for a "winner takes all" prize of $1.28 million, will be held in late October in the capital of Hainan, China's southernmost province.
A giant domestic helicopter for civil use with a maximum take-off load of 13.8 tons, landed safely after its live-televised debut in Jingdezhen city, east China's Jiangxi province Thursday morning,
China has ordered airlines to perform inspections of 160 Boeing 737 airplanes due to concerns over the tail flap mechanism, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said Thursday.
With more celebrities making a fortune in the Chinese stock market, the famous basketball player, Yao Ming is also getting on board. Beijing Unistrong Science & Technology Co Ltd, a high-tech firm in Beijing's Zhongguancun, issued its fundraising plan yesterday. The company plans to raise 469 million yuan through offering 30 million shares on ChiNext.