Police trap jihadists, kill 9

One hundred well-equipped police officers pursued fleeing terrorists in Moyu county of Hotan prefecture after hearing an explosion and asking local villagers to evacuate.

Authorities focus on East Turkestan terrorist group

Police in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region said they have targeted a terrorist cell led by Abudulrehman Abudulkerep, who has connections with leaders of the overseas East Turkestan Islamic Movement and jihadist groups in Syria.

Merged oversight key to food safety

Several Chinese cities are merging their various quality watchdogs to better ensure food safety, an issue that has seen several scandals in recent years.

Shanghai: 'Zero tolerance' for food violations

Local authorities in Shanghai have promised a zero-tolerance approach to breaches of food safety laws after six managers from the company at the center of the expired meat scandal were arrested.

New pollutants fee to curb organic chemicals threat

Beijing will become the first Chinese city to impose pollution fees on a new group of airborne pollutants - volatile organic compounds - as early as this month.

City spends $580m on flood protection

Beijing has allocated 3.5 billion yuan ($580 million) to improve drainage on 43 major overpasses in areas prone to flooding.

Beijing considers 'air corridors' to reduce pollution

Beijing will issue a new urban planning strategy by the end of this year that will for the first time contain a plan to preserve large and green "air corridors".

Capital toughens rules on transporting construction waste

Beijing established new guidelines, which went into effect on July 1, that place tough restrictions on vehicles transporting construction waste.

Vital lessons from Zhou's case

Only a long-term mechanism to fight graft can prevent small 'flies' from becoming big 'tigers' and help cleanse the system

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Amend law to kill fake goods business

A third-party vendor, Belle Boutique, is found to have sold China-made counterfeit luxury products like watches, apparels and bags through major e-commerce platforms, such as jumei.com, a beauty product seller, and jd.com, an e-commerce leader.

Festival of love, not commerce

In popular Chinese folktale The Cowherd and the Weaver Maid, two devoted lovers separated by the Queen Mother of the Western Heavens could reunite only on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. In the evening of that special day, or Qixi, magpies would form a bridge across the Silver River (symbolizing the Milky Way) that separated the lovers to reunite them once a year.