Top officials and political figures in Hong Kong have welcomed the central government's white paper that reviewed the "one country, two systems" principle since its adoption in 1997.
Premier Li Keqiang will visit Britain and Greece next week on another European tour that officials and experts say will yield closer economic ties between China and the two countries as well as China and Europe overall.
Beijing's efforts to garner support at the United Nations in its territorial row with Hanoi reflect its maturing diplomacy as well as its determination to clarify facts and defend interests, observers said.
A company illegally terminated the employment contracts of workers who staged a two-week strike, arbitrators have ruled in Fujian province in the first case of its kind on the Chinese mainland.
A plan to adorn each station on Beijing's subway Line 4 with the name of one of the 32 soccer teams playing in the World Cup has been dropped, much to the disappointment of frequent travelers.
Big-spending Chinese soccer club Guangzhou Evergrande will open a soccer school branch in Madrid this fall in a move to boost development of the sport on the mainland, the club has announced.
Police shot dead a man wielding a knife who stormed into a primary school in Hubei province on Tuesday and held a teacher and dozens of students hostage.
More than 10 universities have shown an interest in the two students who missed the national college entrance exams after being severely injured while trying to stop a knife-wielding man on a bus a week before the exams.
More tourists from China have been heading to East Asia in recent months, deterred from traveling to traditionally popular destinations such as Malaysia and Vietnam.
China's outbound tourism will witness a year-on-year increase of 16 percent, with more than 114 million overseas visits this year, experts estimate.
Chinese tourists remain the biggest spenders on travels overseas, according to a report released by tourism shopping company Global Blue on Tuesday.
Torrential rain will sweep through South and Southwest China while thunderstorms will strike North China over the next three days, the National Meteorological Center said on Monday. Heavy rain is expected in parts of Chongqing and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region as well as Shandong, Guizhou, Yunnan and Hainan provinces through Tuesday afternoon. The central areas of Guizhou will see torrential rain with precipitation of up to 120 mm.
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