Officials are quickly gaining an appetite for persuading Chinese consumers to eat more potatoes.
The German electro-pop band Kraftwerk could easily have been referring to Beijing when, in the song Neon Lights, it observed: "Neon lights/shimmering neon lights/and at the fall of night/this city's made of light."
Item from Jan 9, 1987, in China Daily: "This year China will start work on adding four new railway lines totaling 1,000 kilometers ... The 260-kilometer Houma-Yueshan railway is designed to share the shipment of coal from China's major coal producing area in Shanxi ... The Baoji-Zhongwei line, totaling 502 kilometers, is to be built to facilitate the opening of coalfields in Gansu province."
The potato was categorized as a staple crop this week, joining rice, wheat and corn. The move aims to diversify the Chinese menu and meet soaring food demand.
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Of those, 290 were forcibly captured by the police, while 390 others in 69 countries and regions were persuaded to return to China and confess their crimes - four times more than in 2013, according to the ministry.
China and Ecuador reached agreement on a visa exemption, as the energy-reliant Latin American country, facing a deep plunge in the price of oil, works to attract Chinese tourists and investors.
China will not inject a large amount of newly added financial investment to stimulate the economy this year, a senior official at the country's top economic planner said on Thursday.
The Shanghai High People's Court has upheld the death sentence of a former medical student who was convicted of killing his roommate with poison in April 2013.
China's ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang has been transferred to prosecuting authorities along with 29 other former high-ranking officials, paving the way for his trial.
At least 12 people were shot dead by black-hooded gunmen at the Paris offices of a satirical weekly on Wednesday, police said.
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