Medog county, in the southeast of the Tibet autonomous region, has the gentlest weather in Tibet, with the lowest average altitude in the region, annual rainfall of 3,000 millimeters and the best-protected natural environments in China.
On Aug 22, a video ad for the 17th China International Fair for Investment and Trade, an international investment promotion held every September in Xiamen, Fujian province, was aired in Times Square in New York for the first time.
As Li Xinxin, a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, waited for a shuttle bus on Saturday morning, he looked on his tablet computer to check the timetable for vehicles that pick up delegates.
A strict nationwide ban on officials smoking in public has been imposed at this year's provincial two sessions. In most provinces, "no smoking" signs have been placed on walls and pillars in the conference halls and ashtrays have been removed from the venues.
Song Lin runs a small video games stall on the sixth floor of the So-show shopping mall in Beijing.
Youngsters who play video games excessively or spend large parts of their leisure time in game centers equate to "bad kids, bad habits" for many parents and teachers in China.
During a financial orientation course at Shanghai Finance University, 19-year-old Li Jing raised his hand and asked if there is a way of laundering money "properly".
A snowboard protruded from thick snow in a corner of the courtyard outside Sengelite's house in the village of Hemu.
Irreparable damage to ancient architecture and traditional culture was caused by a fire that raged in an ancient Tibetan town in Yunnan province at the weekend, according to experts.
The government of the Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture said 343 houses were destroyed by Saturday's fire in Dukezong.
James Hilton ended his classic novel Lost Horizon with the question "Do you think he (the hero, Conway) will ever find it (Shangri-La)", but the place remained a fiction until September 1997, when the government of Yunnan province announced that Zhongdian county would change its name to Shangri-La county.
It would be hard to find any year in the past three decades in China that lacked really big news. Yet, it might not be stretching the truth to see 2013 as an especially crucial 12 months.
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