Supplementary to the new regulation on China's roads, Hubei province has ruled that drivers must give way to pedestrians, many of whom said they look forward to seeing more provinces adopt the rule.
In the United States, there are no national traffic guidelines, but the sequence for traffic lights is usually red, green, yellow and back to red, although some are simply red-green-red.
Despite a series of measures taken by authorities in Beijing to ease traffic problems in the capital, wardens are still facing a tough challenge.
It seems that even the recent freezing weather has been unable to give investors from the Chinese mainland cold feet about pouring their money into Taiwan.
Tom Chiang was a funeral director for a decade in Taiwan before he moved to the Chinese mainland and began training workers at a funeral home in Chongqing.
After graduating from Zhengzhou Railway Vocational & Technical College in 2008, Luo Fengguang joined the train division of Zhengzhou Railway Bureau to receive tuition as a maintenance inspector for bullet trains.
"The Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway will connect the three cities in which I spend most of my time," said Man Zi, a 25-year-old dance teacher, who moved from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, nine years ago and now runs a dance club in Guangdong province. To improve her dancing skills, Man has tuition from teachers in a number of cities, with Guangzhou, Wuhan and Beijing accounting for the lion's share of her trips.
Wearing a small bib patched with different-colored pieces of cloth, his cheeks roughened by long exposure to the cold winter weather, 17-month-old Huang Jie from Guanqi village, Guantou township, Fujian province, appears no different from any of the other local children.
Lin Jinguang saw his grandson off from Fuzhou Changle International Airport on April 19. For the first couple of months after the boy's departure, the grandfather, 63, found it difficult to stay at home, but with the passage of time he's gradually adapting to a quieter life.
It's been nearly six weeks since her 82-year-old mother died, but Huang Yuan still cringes when she remembers the glimpses she caught of the elderly woman behind the thick glass wall of the intensive care unit. It's a wall that separates, often once and for all, the realm of the living and the immediate, dark corridor leading to the world of death.
Comprehensive studies conducted after the disaster in Fukushima will help ensure safety and high standards, Jiang Xueqing reports from Shenzhen and Wu Wencong from Beijing.
China will not develop nuclear power plants inland before 2015, a State Council executive meeting decided on Oct 24. The decision means that inland nuclear power projects on which preliminary work has already begun will be halted for at least another three years.
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