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Inner Mongolia to assist in fight against Beijing sandstorms

[2013-03-14 07:03]

Deputies from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region to the 12th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, have called for upgrading the desertification control project that blocks sandstorms from hitting the country's capital, a measure that gives environmental protection the same weight as economic development.

Chinese health system's ills need to be treated

[2013-03-14 07:03]

I have never been a fan of expat views, foreign faces offering "wisdom" to problems we seldom understand in the world's most populous nation. But let me share what I witnessed at Beijing's Children's Hospital late last year and encourage every participants of the two sessions to visit the hospital before considering the vast span of medical proposals before them.

Farmland policy reforms requested

[2013-03-14 07:03]

Waste of fields threaten nation's agricultural output, experts say

Straight-shooting deputies tell it like it is in Tibet

[2013-03-14 07:03]

I learned in books that the ferocious-looking men of Kham are strong "warriors of Tibet", coming from the toughest tribe, wearing long hair and carrying long knives.

Sound Bites

[2013-03-14 07:03]

"Nowadays, children only want to be officials and civil servants. Very few of them want to become scientists."

Yu Zhengsheng: frank, devoted friend

[2013-03-13 07:12]

"If you have any questions, bring them up. If you have any problems or any worries, tell us. Only by being frank can we become devoted friends."

Tibet welcomes more visitors from abroad

[2013-03-13 07:12]

The Tibet autonomous region will open up further to the outside world and attract more visitors from aboard as of this summer, according to a senior Tibetan legislator.

Clean water crucial to project

[2013-03-13 07:12]

Development to feed drought-prone areas, including Beijing and Tianjin

Kashgar gives top priority to education

[2013-03-13 07:12]

Education has become the top priority for Kashgar, a prefecture in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Watcher follows path of nation's reform

[2013-03-13 07:12]

One of Harvard University's top China scholars, Ezra Vogel, has been keeping an eye on the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. This year's NPC is especially important because it is selecting new government leaders for the next decade.

Look forward to a new-look China

[2013-03-13 07:12]

Nostalgia is a funny thing. Some of the veteran expats I meet yearn for the good old days when the spidery network of hutong in Beijing defined the capital city. They like to tell of the time long ago when a kebab cost a few fen rather a couple of yuan, and they get all misty-eyed at the thought of people riding around on bicycles rather than in cars.

Growth with Guizhou flair

[2013-03-13 07:12]

Poverty-stricken Guizhou province will push its own style of industrialization and urbanization to realize its goal of building a prosperous society by 2020, authorities said.