A 91-year-old former Flying Tigers pilot, the only one still alive on the Chinese mainland, is critically ill with a lung infection.
The champagne has stopped flowing in Beijing, and Joerg Wuttke couldn't be happier about it.
China's anti-graft campaign in the energy and resource fields is to be enhanced, analysts said on Wednesday, as the trial of former senior energy official Liu Tienan began.
China will soon announce the actions it will take after 2020 to combat climate change, Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli said at a United Nations climate change summit on Tuesday in New York.
China is on track to exceed its 2014 target for cutting water pollution, the government announced on Wednesday, amid reports that it plans a $326 billion action plan to clean up its rivers and lakes.
President Xi Jinping has made no secret of his love for traditional Chinese culture by frequently quoting classic Chinese literature, most recently urging that Chinese classic poems and essays be kept in high school textbooks.
"Learning without thinking is labor lost, thinking without learning is perilous."
Information technology has overtaken real estate as the cradle of the next generation of Chinese billionaires, according to the 2014 Hurun China Rich List released on Tuesday.
A report released ahead of Tuesday's UN climate summit, which shows China's per capita carbon emissions have surpassed those of the European Union, does not tell the whole story, an expert said.
China has had a trade surplus in goods for a long time, but in another type of trade it is running a deficit that continues to grow.
Even before Sigmund Freud fled Hitler's reign on the Orient Express from Vienna in June 1938, the father of psychoanalysis and his ideas about sex, dreams and cocaine divided opinion in the Austrian capital.
President Xi Jinping voiced confidence in Hong Kong's future on Monday, saying Beijing will firmly support the city to promote democracy in line with the law and uphold its prosperity and stability.
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