According to the International Organization for Migration, by 2013, there were 232 million migrants worldwide. Twenty-two percent were highly skilled and 33 percent had intermediate skills.
1980: The Nationality Law of The People's Republic of China allowed foreign nationals or stateless people to apply for Chinese citizenship or have it restored.
Guangzhou was an important harbor city on the ancient Maritime Silk Road for more than two thousand years and is now striving to be a leader and bridgehead in the nation's 21st century version of the route.
The Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City is Guangzhou's bold move to build a "future city" and offer the world an alternative urban planning method, said Chen Yiping, a consultant for the Knowledge City Collaboration Office.
The national education authority is requiring all the institutions and bureaus involved with the newly exposed gaokao ghostwriter scandal in Henan province to work together with the public security bureaus.
China's weather bureau said the chance of an El Nino weather event this year is about 70 percent, which may affect China's crop output and bring conditions for drought and flooding across the country.
Typhoon Hagibis made landfall on Sunday in southern China, destroying houses, farmland, closing ports, and suspending trains and flights.
The H7N9 bird flu virus, which has caused severe illness and deaths in China, may inhabit only a fraction of its potential range and could possibly spread to India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, according to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Communications.
Beijing and Guangdong province finished at the bottom of a ranking of Chinese regions' media image, according to a report by the Crisis Management Center at Renmin University of China.
China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater, one of the nine national performing arts companies under the Ministry of Culture, is experiencing a sharp decline in performances this year due to the central government's austerity measures.
The Chinese government's policies to combat water pollution have changed from simply focusing on the polluted water bodies to managing the ecological system of entire river basins, a much more comprehensive approach, officials said.
Three terrorists from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region who launched an attack in Beijing's Tian'anmen Square in 2013 were sentenced to death, while legal experts are calling for regulations against terrorism and extremism in the western China region.
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