Foreign Minister Wang Yi demanded an immediate cease-fire and called for political dialogue to end the renewed violence in South Sudan during a meeting with his South Sudan counterpart, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, in Beijing on Tuesday.
Beijing rejected on Wednesday Philippine complaints about Chinese survey vessels operating in Liyue Tan - also known as the Reed Bank - and has lodged a separate complaint about the detention of Chinese workers.
Twelve lighting rods disguised as trees will stand on the sides of unopened sections of the Badaling Great Wall by the end of 2014, helping to protect the cultural site, the management authority of the section said.
The local government of the Tibet autonomous region has put a cap on the number of passengers allowed on tour buses on the region's mountainous roads after two recent deadly accidents involving buses.
Fifteen officials from Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have been punished for discipline violations such as dereliction of duty, instigation of ethnic hatred and disregard of Communist Party of China regulations on its members' religious beliefs, Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Visitors to Hongqi Mountain in Sanzhou town, Fujian province, would probably be surprised to know the area, currently dotted with fresh foliage, was once barren and dubbed "bald hill".
During the day, Huang Yanhai prunes waxberry trees in his father's orchard in Sanzhou, Changting county. When it gets dark, the 29-year-old spends hours designing animated monsters for cybergame developers.
An oriental white stork is just a rare bird in most people's eyes, but for Zhao Zhichun, Katyusha is one of his closest friends.
In August 1952, an astronomy exhibition in Beijing introduced China's ancient astronomy achievements and modern knowledge to the capital's residents.
Unlike some schoolboys, Yin Mingde is counting the days until he starts a new term in September at one of the leading schools in the capital, Beijing No 4 High School.
Beijing has launched a yearlong "maker" season to encourage innovation and turn ideas from the general public into reality.
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