Nonresident parents in Beijing have been signing a petition to fight a policy that will continue to limit their children's eligibility to take the national college entrance exam in the city. Twenty-six of them jointly submitted a formal request for an administrative review to the Ministry of Education on Jan 11.
After hours of driving through Gansu province, following the modern highway that runs alongside the remains of ancient walls and watchtowers made out of gravel and soil, the surroundings suddenly changed when we took the exit to Mazongshan - one of the least populated towns in China.
The greatest fear of Bayishi Hule, the herdsman from Mazongshan, is that one day the wolves might attack people if their packs keep growing. "The wolves often come in a pack of six or seven and can kill dozens or even 100 mountain goats at a time," he said.
Huang Hui, a 33-year-old English-language teacher at a Shanghai university, once had a coveted job as team leader with a multinational company in Beijing.
For many potential rush-hour passengers on Beijing's streets it has become an all-too-familiar sight.
Some entrepreneurs are tackling problems plaguing the taxi industry by trying to find new ways to save time for passengers and increase revenue for cabbies.
China will strengthen the enforcement of environmental laws, and take other measures to tackle air pollution, Vice-Premier Li Keqiang pledged on Tuesday.
On Dec 18, the US Department of Commerce imposed stiff tariffs on Chinese-made wind towers imported at prices deemed to be unreasonably low. The department determined that Chinese exporters have sold utility-scale wind towers in the US at dumping margins of 44.99 percent to 70.63 percent. In response, the department set deposit rates for cash, used as surety for goods, ranging from 34.33 to 60.02 percent on the towers and additional countervailing duties of 21.86 to 34.81 percent to offset Chinese government subsidies.
In 2011, China's wind energy sector had 71.5 billion kWh of energy connected to the grid, representing 1.5 percent of the country's total national electricity output, according to the report China Wind Power Outlook 2012, published in September. However, statistics released by the Global Wind Energy Council show that in countries such as Spain, an average 16 percent of electricity demand was met by wind power.
For many years, Peking Duck and Peking Opera were probably the two most famous items named after the capital.
The lower area of the field, containing hundreds of withered cornstalks, was covered by a sheet of reddish-brown ice. Hundreds of people armed with iron picks and shovels were cutting holes roughly half a meter in diameter in the ice, clearing away the nearly 5-centimeter-thick layer. They then tipped large bags of activated carbon - charcoal treated with oxygen - into the half-meter-deep water underneath to absorb the contaminants.
The Changzhi aniline spill wasn't the only safety incident to occur in Shanxi province recently. In the past 20 days, there have been four other major accidents, some of which resulted in fatalities.
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