One hundred thousand people are expected to join the corps of migrant workers in south China's Guangdong province who drive home on motorbikes for the Spring Festival, police said to the Nanfang Daily.
Can't wait to rush home for the Spring Festival? A recent poll revealed 41.1% people dare not go home at all due to the event being a costly ordeal for their meager salary, the China Youth Daily reported. And they christen themselves "the home dodgers".
China has discharged 49.15 million tons of industrial solid waste and 39,400 tons of industrial hazardous waste throughout the year of 2007, according to information released in the first national survey, the China Economic Net reported.
Although China replaced Iran to rank as the No 4 biggest oil producer in 2009, domestic output can only meet half of the country's demand, reported the China Business News, citing official statistics.
Yu Hongchen, an official from General Administration of Sports of China, was named the deputy chief of the scandal-rocked Chinese Football Association (CFA) on Tuesday morning, Sports.qq.com reported.
A recent online poll indicated 59.5 percent netizens think negative of the county's neo-wealthy who shoot to fame on the annual rich lists, the China Youth Daily reported.
Beijing's municipal government is to inject capital into Deer Air, an airline focuses on the business jet service, and rechristen the carrier Capital Airlines.
China's State-owned assets watchdog will encourage more qualified State-owned enterprises (SOEs) to go public this year, since the capital market has strongly supported the development of central enterprises in recent years, Shanghai Securities News reported Monday, citing a senior official.
Job seekers outnumbered the openings in Chinese cities by a narrow margin of 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter of last year according to the latest report on national labor markets, Xinhua reported.
Han Chinese, long-held as the country's ethnic majority, may turn out to be a false proposition as a latest ethnology finding said its pure-blood people completely vanished into the racial mixes, People.com.cn reported Monday.
Hotel room prices in Sanya catapulted to a staggering high of more than 15,000 yuan (US$2,200) average, or even 34,500 yuan (US$5,050) for one night during the upcoming Spring Festival, the China Business Daily reported Monday.
Chinese society needs to show respect to common sense, think rationally in government administration, including pursuing its democracy model, and search for beliefs amidst the rapid economic growth, said Bai Yansong, China's leading television host, in an interview with the Beijing News.