As the death toll from Friday morning's explosion in Qingdao, Shandong province, rose to 52 on Sunday, officials ruled out the possibility of further blasts but said they will continue to monitor the situation closely. Eleven people are still missing and 136 are receiving hospital treatment. Officials said the blast happened when crude oil that had leaked from a ruptured pipeline ignited in storm drains in the Huangdao district.
In addition to the deaths, injuries and damage to the city of Qingdao, Friday's explosion has resulted in the threat of oil-based pollution of the ocean.
Just about the last thing Zhang Changhua and her family wanted to do was to act like tourists and go out into the wintry streets on a cold night in Harbin, famed for its ice festival.
On Monday, China announced its first National Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation at the 2013 UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The move signaled that the issue is now at the very top of the government's agenda, said sources at Xinhua News Agency.
When official spokesman Mao Qun'an greeted a senior editor at a recent forum at Peking University, the journalist confided that the sight of Mao always reminds him of the time a pandemic ravaged China a decade ago.
Experts are still attempting to evaluate the potential impact of China's blueprint for reform one week after a key Party meeting to discuss the nation's future.
Following the election of the new leadership, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decides that the Third Plenary Session will deal with comprehensive reform and tackle a number of important decisions. A drafting group of around 60 members headed by President Xi Jinping, also General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, is established by the Political Bureau. It's the first time since 2000 that the Party's top leader has led the drafting of a document to be tabled at a plenary session.
As part of humankind's historical heritage, traditional villages have high value in terms of research, architectural techniques and cultural continuity.
Liu Shuanzhu, 57, has been Party chief of Xiwenxing village in Qinshui county, Shanxi province, for more than two decades; in his own words he has dreamed of helping the villagers become rich.
Xue Xiuxian was born and raised in the rural suburbs of Gaoping city in Shanxi province. At one time, the 38-year-old was so bored with village life that she swore to settle down in the big city when she married, but all that changed when she met the man who would later become her husband. When Xue married in 1999, she moved all her belongings from her home village of Qincheng to nearby Lianghu village.
Editor's note: Zheng Ziru was once a Peking opera singer, but is now a free stage director. She has a great passion for Chinese tradition, history, and, especially, architecture. After 10 years of searching, she finally found an old house in Yaoziyu, a fortress village built more than 400 years ago at the foot of Erdaoguan Great Wall in the Huairou district of suburban Beijing. She has made the village her second home in the capital.
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