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The new yuan-denominated loans extended by China's banks in the first two months of 2010 hit 2.09 trillion yuan ($306.17 billion), accounting for 28 percent of the nation's lending target of 7.5 trillion yuan set for this year.
At least eleven Siberian tigers have starved to death in the past three months at a northeastern wildlife zoo that was closed for disciplinary reform after a violent tiger assault last year, the China News Agency reported Friday.
Wuhan municipal government's development blueprint for the next decade has been reviewed by the State Department, local newspaper the Yangtze Daily reported Friday.
The highly anticipated Beijing-Shanghai bullet train, with a speed of 218 mph, is expected to be put into use by 2012, said an official with the Railways Ministry, the Beijing News reported Friday.
Stephen Chan Chi-wan, a famed TVB host in Hong Kong and a top executive of the broadcaster, was arrested in a graft probe Thursday along with a former assistant and three other high-profile employees, the territory's South China Morning Post reported.
A man suspected of killing a cop was shot dead by armed police around 8 pm in Lanzhou, according to a journalist with Chinanews.com.cn.
An exhibit featuring Italy's most valuable paintings kicked off in Shanghai on Wednesday, with 82 pieces of art from between the 15th and 20th centuries that belongs to Italy's Uffizi museum.
Investment budgets of foreign enterprises in South China increased by 44 percent year-on-year, nearly recovering to pre-financial crisis levels, although 3-year budgets lag in recovery.
More than 120 Chinese scholars have filed a petition to the nation's top legislature, demanding, on the grounds of bio-safety, the revocation of the Agriculture Ministry's certificates on two transgenic rice breeds and more cautious licensing in the future.
Wang Yin, deputy to the National People's Congress and deputy director-general of Yunnan Dali Health Bureau suggested encouraging pre-marriage health checks during the ongoing Two Sessions, the Xinhuanet reported.
Although reclaimed water is considered the second-biggest resource of water in the city, China's utilization rate of reclaimed water is less than 10 percent, said Hong Meixiang, a CPPCC National Committee member and the president of the Yinchuan Committee of CPPCC said during the ongoing Two Sessions, Xinhuanet reported.
The number of faulty convictions in China last year accounted for 11,669 cases, 0.18 percent of all retrials.
