The World Health Organization called for a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising in China on Thursday to reduce the number of smokers.
Schools in Beijing have started to monitor air quality on campus and issue warnings if necessary to minimize risks to students posed by hazardous gases and particles such as PM2.5, which has become a major air pollutant in the city.
Beijing is struggling with heavy smog, and neighboring Tianjin municipality and Hebei province are also having to take measures to cope with the problem. A look at what's happening:
Nearly 100 agreements are expected to be reached during Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming second visit to Europe this year, which starts on Thursday and underlines increasingly closer cooperation between China and Europe.
Trade deals and guidelines for mid- and long-term cooperation between China and Germany are likely to be endorsed during Premier Li Keqiang's visit, said China's top diplomat to Germany.
Premier Li Keqiang will receive "something unique" in Berlin during his three-day visit to Germany starting on Thursday, German Ambassador to China Michael Clauss told China Daily in an interview ahead of the visit.
The country's top press and media watchdog has ordered TV stations and other outlets to stop broadcasting material featuring stars who use drugs or visit prostitutes.
The Chinese government will further cut bureaucracy to boost investment and entrepreneurship, Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday at an executive meeting of the State Council, China's Cabinet.
My first response to the 6.6-magnitude earthquake was to get aboard a military truck heading to the epicenter in Jinggu county in Pu'er on Tuesday night. When I arrived on Wednesday morning, I was surprised to see the extent of the quake's devastation.
Yunnan is located in the circum-Pacific seismic belt, part of the Eurasian seismic zone.
Beijing police have detained more than 30,000 people in the past three years in crackdowns against Internet crime.
An increasing number of Chinese businesses and academic institutions have been joining the Grand Challenges initiative set up by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to help the poor worldwide through science and technology innovations.
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