Pictures taken in Dalian, Liaoning province, featuring a canal, gondolas and European-style buildings created a stir on the Internet on Monday, with viewers attracted by the prospect of experiencing the "Oriental City of Canals".
A mother panda holding her cub and breast-feeding it looks so tranquil that people might think the two are in a park.
Computer software commissioned by Zhuhai city government to issue alerts on malpractice in government-invested projects will be promoted in other parts of Guangdong province as a measure to prevent corruption.
The top legislative authority will discuss a proposal to amend the criminal law to prohibit government officials from seeking exemption from bribery cases with the excuse of "accepting gifts".
Sidney Shapiro, a famed US-born translator who was one of the few Westerners to gain Chinese citizenship and become a member of the nation's top advisory body, died at the weekend in Beijing, his granddaughter said. He was 98.
Resuming cybersecurity cooperation between China and the United States would be difficult because of "mistaken US practices", China's top diplomat told US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Has China found its own Gangnam Style? From Beijing parks to Shanghai skyscrapers, and from Guangzhou factories to karaoke rooms in Macao, people are singing Little Apple - a song apparently so catchy it has even won over the army and police.
China has donated $6 million to help stave off food shortages in the three African countries worst affected by the Ebola virus, the United Nations World Food Programme announced on Monday
China and France have agreed to join hands to combat the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
Until three years ago, Li Chengjian regularly arranged circus performances in zoos during China's annual weeklong National Day Holiday. Those glory days are long gone, though.
Although the ban on circus performances involving animals in State-owned zoos was strengthened last year, a recent survey shows that during the National Day holiday in early October, about 40 percent of the nation's zoos hosted shows that featured animals.
The authorities in Suzhou, Anhui province, are supporting innovation in the circus industry, in the hope of building it into a "calling card" for the city.
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