Photo: Li Zhiting, from Jiajiang, a county in Sichuan province, has spent most of his life surrounded by needles and thread since becoming a tailor at the age of 12. Tailoring has been a family business for the 92-year-old, but the business has struggled to make a profit as people increasingly opt for ready-to-wear clothes.
Mexico has revoked a contract for a $3.75 billion high-speed passenger rail link with a Chinese-led consortium after its uncontested bid prompted an outcry from lawmakers, souring a state visit to China next week by President Enrique Pena Nieto.
A traditional Chinese medicine physician who accepted a challenge to diagnose pregnancies using a disputed method denied on Friday claims that he had withdrawn from the contest.
Police will take blood samples from 11 abducted infants rescued in a recent operation against a cross-province trafficking ring in Yunnan province, in order to reunite them with their blood parents, a senior official from the Ministry of Public Security said.
A team of more than 100 researchers from China, the United States, Germany and several other countries published the first modern road map of insect evolution on Thursday.
Police arrested a group of people who swindled money and cellphones from young women while posing as students from Hong Kong. The police caught nine suspects, all from Anhui province, in a fast-food restaurant.
Outbound trips, mainly to Southeast Asia, have risen by almost 40 percent."
The Three Gorges Power Plant, the world's largest hydropower project, had generated more than 800 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity as of Tuesday since its first turbine generator was put into operation in 2003.
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.
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