Photo: Three young men from Henan province who started building robots for fun modeled after characters from the Hollywood blockbuster Transformers have been cashing in on their work. Their first creation, a 3-meter-high robot made from recycled auto parts, sold for 10,000 yuan ($1,600).
Premier Li Keqiang will attend a series of ASEAN leaders' meetings from Nov 12 to 14 in Myanmar, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Wednesday.
As the last governor of Britain's colonial rule of Hong Kong, he should have awareness of his role and get a clear understanding of the change of time."
China's largest oil tanker, with vessel displacement seven times that of the country's only aircraft carrier, Liaoning, has a dead weight of 320,000 metric tons. It was delivered in Guangzhou on Wednesday.
Bilingual news: Of all the great lines, in all the films, it all had to come down to a plastic spaceman. According to a new poll, the greatest line in movie history is Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase: "To infinity ... and beyond!" The vote saw the line spoken by a toy astronaut in Disney's 1995 animated film Toy Story come out on top by just one vote.
A 27-year-old father was sentenced to five years in prison for selling his illegitimate son for 80,000 yuan ($13,000) to a woman surnamed Wang, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Tuesday.
"I love ships. I have been working as a crew member for more than 20 years. I have gotten used to this dreary life. A crew member gets 2,000 to 3,000 yuan ($327 to $490) a month and eats meat only once or twice a week. Young people won't come if they have any other options."
Since April of this year, China, the first foreign country to provide assistance to Ebola-hit West African countries, has so far offered aid worth $122 million in four packages of emergency relief materials to the countries, Vice-Minister of Commerce Fang Aiqing said on Monday.
Photo: Motorists cross Westminster Bridge in London as they participate in the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on Sunday.
The new strategic partners of China and Qatar didn't waste any time upgrading their cooperation with six agreements on Monday.
A 21-year-old female traveler fell off a cliff on Sunday as she attempted to enter the Taishan Mountain tourist attraction in Shandong province without paying the entrance fee of 125 yuan, qlwb.com reported on Monday.
"Much of the high-quality arable land around large and medium-sized cities has not yet been designated as permanent basic farmland. It is a pressing problem that the expansion of cities is encroaching on prime farmland."
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