President Xi Jinping welcomed about 200 Kazakh youngsters to Beijing on Tuesday as the university students began to retrace the ancient Silk Road, which has given the two countries centuries of close ties.
"It (the Grand Canal) is not a piecemeal approach, but a massive project. More importantly, the canal's not a temple or a mountain. It's a complicated system involving many land resources, cultural relics, water conservancy projects and environmental concerns. In terms of time and space, its protection is an unprecedented challenge in the history of the World Heritage program. We have no model to follow anywhere in the world."
For the second time in less than two months, top political adviser Yu Zhengsheng met with a Japanese delegation, a move observers said emphasizes China's and Japan's efforts to mend ties that have recently experienced severe turbulence.
Participants in a new rural cooperative medical program in Yunnan province can receive partial reimbursement of their costs for methadone, used in treating drug dependence, as part of efforts to boost public health and social security.
China will boost financial and technical support to its neighbors to effectively combat drug smuggling, the Ministry of Public Security said.
The central government's expenses on vehicles, receptions, overseas trips and conferences dropped by 22.93 percent in 2013, the result of an aggressive frugality campaign, an audit report released on Tuesday said.
Nearly three-quarters of netizens polled by China's top anti-graft agency said government officials slack off and lack self-discipline.
Chinese students are increasingly willing to head overseas for studies at an earlier age, a new survey indicates.
As South Korean reality shows, dramas and pop music sweep Chinese television screens, tourism officials and agencies are looking to further tap their commercial potential.
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