Song Hong, an experienced drone operator in Beijing, is anxiously waiting for his license.
With cameras acting as eyes, radars sensing barricades, and with GPS, navigation equipment and computers monitoring positions and giving directions, five driverless cars developed by Chinese universities and research institutions slowly but smoothly completed a 200-meter ring in Beijing on Monday.
As Mid-Autumn Festival nears, the top discipline body of the Communist Party of China has intensified its crackdown on malpractices such as the use of public money to buy moon cakes and gift cards as part of its ongoing campaign against extravagance and corruption.
In 1983, when I graduated from the University of California law school in San Francisco in the United States, our commencement speaker was Robin Williams. He had been chosen by the students to deliver the speech.
Many observers have said the recent dramatic increase in university tuition fees is "irrational" and "harmful"to students from low-income families, especially because higher fees don't mean better quality education.
Three articles published in People's Daily and posted on its website recently are critical of Western-style democracy and US-style freedom of the press. The articles are part of an official campaign in defense of the system of government in China, which overseas observers often describe in negative terms.
Since British novelist James Hilton introduced the fictional Shangri-la to Western readers eight decades ago, foreign minds have often thought of Tibet as a mystical but harmonious paradise.
Sustainable development is key to the Tibet autonomous region's future, said experts participating in a forum on Tibet's development co-hosted by the region's government and the State Council Information Office.
Wolves might strike again, an expert warned following a wolf attack on six households in a village in Fuyun county of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Editor's note: To offer a clearer picture of history, the State Archives Administration released a large number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court held public trials, sentencing the criminals to from eight to 20 years in prison. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:
The anti-doping campaign at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games will focus more on educating young athletes about drug prevention rather than intimidating them through intensive tests, Games officials said.
Rugby will return to the Olympic program after a 90-year gap when the second summer Youth Olympic Games open on Saturday in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
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