Construction is set to begin this year on a railway linking Lhasa and Nyingchi prefecture in the Tibet autonomous region with an estimated 30 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) investment, top Tibetan officials said on Wednesday in Beijing.
South Korea's Samsung SDI Co Ltd plans to build two new facilities in Xi'an, capital of northwest Shaanxi province, to produce an electronic car battery and semiconductor package, the provincial governor has revealed.
Authorities in the poverty-stricken province of Guizhou vow that the region's gross domestic product will maintain its double-digit growth rate over the next three to five years.
Suzhou is offering aid to improve education and promote tourism in Tongren, Guizhou province, to help the city fight poverty.
In the last 35 years, China occupied itself with learning how to get along with the rest of the international community, while the rest of the world invested similar effort in getting to know China better.
Stephen Orlins, one of the leading China watchers in the United States, lives on Beijing time these days.
I have to say before I begin this journal that what I am going to write is not sexist.
"It is not a good thing that young people are swarming to take civil service examinations. That mentality is not right in the first place."
Several years ago, I was enjoying one of my best vacations ever - a long road trip in Iran. It was an unusual choice for an American, a fact driven home when my little group visited a ninth-century Christian monastery near the northwest border with Azerbaijan.
I signaled to her several times, raising my hand high and waving, but the woman responsible for calling on reporters kept refusing to acknowledge me.
To Kenneth Lieberthal, one of the top China hands in the United States, the government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang at the opening session of the National People's Congress on Wednesday reaffirmed goals that have already been set.
When deputies of the National People's Congress made a suggestion to expand road systems in Yunnan province to link southwestern China to adjacent countries, Premier Li Keqiang immediately got behind the idea and asked his office to take note.
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