Shanghai: 'Zero tolerance' for food violations

Local authorities in Shanghai have promised a zero-tolerance approach to breaches of food safety laws after six managers from the company at the center of the expired meat scandal were arrested.

New pollutants fee to curb organic chemicals threat

Beijing will become the first Chinese city to impose pollution fees on a new group of airborne pollutants - volatile organic compounds - as early as this month.

City spends $580m on flood protection

Beijing has allocated 3.5 billion yuan ($580 million) to improve drainage on 43 major overpasses in areas prone to flooding.

Beijing considers 'air corridors' to reduce pollution

Beijing will issue a new urban planning strategy by the end of this year that will for the first time contain a plan to preserve large and green "air corridors".

Capital toughens rules on transporting construction waste

Beijing established new guidelines, which went into effect on July 1, that place tough restrictions on vehicles transporting construction waste.

Vital lessons from Zhou's case

Only a long-term mechanism to fight graft can prevent small 'flies' from becoming big 'tigers' and help cleanse the system

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Amend law to kill fake goods business

A third-party vendor, Belle Boutique, is found to have sold China-made counterfeit luxury products like watches, apparels and bags through major e-commerce platforms, such as jumei.com, a beauty product seller, and jd.com, an e-commerce leader.

Festival of love, not commerce

In popular Chinese folktale The Cowherd and the Weaver Maid, two devoted lovers separated by the Queen Mother of the Western Heavens could reunite only on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. In the evening of that special day, or Qixi, magpies would form a bridge across the Silver River (symbolizing the Milky Way) that separated the lovers to reunite them once a year.

Murder of Xinjiang religious leader deplorable

The appalling murder of Jume Tahir, a renowned Islamic religious leader in Xinjiang, is another flagrant challenge by the violent terrorists to the common rules of the entire human society and it can by no means be tolerated.

Investigators dig deeply into CNPC operations

China's ongoing anti-corruption investigations into officials who have close ties to China National Petroleum Corp, the country's oil giant, may affect the company's business operations and a billion-dollar project in Canada, experts said.

Zhou Yongkang profile

Zhou Yongkang, a native of Wuxi in Jiangsu province, was born in December 1942 and joined the Communist Party of China in November 1964.