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Nation and Digest

New regulation to improve how govt handles petitions

[2014-04-25 07:10]

Central government departments will not accept petitioners' complaints if they are supposed to be handled by lower-level government bodies, according to a regulation to be enacted on May 1.

Satellites of many countries aiding search

[2014-04-25 07:10]

China has been given access to nearly 700 satellite images from other countries in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, after invoking an international charter agreement designed to pool space resources in time of need, the China National Space Administration said.

Cervical cancer increases among young Chinese women

[2014-04-25 07:10]

More young Chinese women are contracting cervical cancer, with nearly a third of new cases now in women 35 and younger, a top specialist said.

Tibetan soldiers strengthen top regiment

[2014-04-25 07:10]

Seven years of operating cannons and hauling self-carried missiles in the People's Liberation Army have left calluses on Tashi Phuntsog's palms and fingers.

Cultural ties vital to China, UK, Li says

[2014-04-24 06:59]

Premier Li Keqiang called for more cooperation between China and the United Kingdom in cultural fields including education, health, youth exchanges and tourism, as the two countries held a high-level people-to-people dialogue on Wednesday.

Quotable

[2014-04-24 06:59]

"Central and local government authorities are now adopting tougher measures and have also developed more effective incentive mechanisms, and we now have an optimistic attitude toward completing these targets requested in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15)."

The number

[2014-04-24 06:59]

60 percent of the groundwater quality at monitoring stations nationwide was bad in 2013 and the quality level has been falling since 2011, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing Times reported on Wednesday. There are 4,778 monitoring stations in 203 prefecture-level administrative regions across the country. The water quality at 2,095 stations, or 43.9 percent of the total, was "poor", while the quality at another 750 stations was "extremely poor", accounting for 15.7 percent.