A helicopter landed at Dezhou University, Shandong province to pick up a female student on March 19, 2011, stirring an online sensation.
A record 24 sports including 306 events will be held at 41 venues in the upcoming 26th Shenzhen Universiade to be held in China in August.
The government of Wuwei county in East China's Anhui province paid 300,000 yuan for 43 cable factory CEOs to receive one-week of study at China's elite Tsinghua University in Beijing earlier this month, sparking a storm of controversy.
China will increase the resource tax on rare earth exports next month to a level 10 times higher than current standard, Shanghai Securities News reported Friday.
China's prestigious Peking University is planning to enforce screening all its students for "radical thoughts," raising concerns that a lack of free thinking will stifle students in a place famed for open discussions.
A man, who lives in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, began posting on his micro blog the daily results of his radiation level tests in Nanjing starting March 17, after he read about the radiation leakage at Fukushima in Japan.
The government of Shenzhen has asked the public to design an official logo for the city.
A new mandatory rule announced by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) recently required all female players to wear standardized skirt or dress in top-ranking tournaments like the Grand Prix and super series in a bid to make the sport and players' appearance more attractive.
Deep in what locals call Gengbei Mountain in Beitou township, Quannan county in Ganzhou, dozens of people were busy at work on Feb 18 at a mining spot, which was ordered closed by the local government in 2009 due to its contamination of a river and the consequent protests by locals.
The Chinese Internet company NetEase.com Inc announced Wednesday it will launch a 1,200-mu (80-hectare) pig farm in Anji county of eastern China's Zhejiang province, China Business News reported.
Chile, the world's largest copper producer, has to sell its copper concentrate to China despite plans to sell it to Japan, China Business News reported Thursday.
Lead futures were listed on the Shanghai Futures Exchange Thursday. The bench mark price of the seven contracts on the first day was 18,350 yuan per ton, Securities Times reported.