Beijing will likely increase the price for subway tickets to a starting price of 3 yuan ($0.49), the first price hike in seven years, while bus fares will go up to 2 yuan after representatives voiced their support and suggestions at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon.
Peter Anders' daily commute involves traveling halfway across Beijing and back.
Beijing Subway started operating on Jan 15, 1971. At the beginning, when the subway had only one line, the price to ride was 1 jiao, or 0.1 yuan (1.6 US cents). The ticket price went up to 2 jiao in 1987 and 5 jiao in 1991. The annual passenger volume went down by 10 million in that year.
Beijing will increase the frequency of its high-speed trains to meet the demand of Beijing tourists during the APEC conference next week.
Parents of protesting students in Hong Kong are growing increasingly worried about the youngsters' safety as pressure mounts on the police to clear areas affected by the Occupy Central campaign.
China and the United States have become each other's fourth-largest tourist destinations, with about 4.05 million tourists traveling between the two countries last year, according to China's top tourism official.
China's leading expert on sexology has received an administrative penalty for swindling State scientific research funds.
China's Internet watchdog is working on a guideline for smartphone applications in an attempt to maintain cyberspace order, improve industry development and protect users.
China is to issue stricter policies on traditional dwellings in order to protect cultural heritage, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said on Tuesday during the release of the results of the first national census of such buildings.
As he walked along the narrow corridors packed with patients, Amir Ali, a physician and director of the Aksu Hospital of Traditional Uygur Medicine, said he's noticed a marked change in the way the local women are dressing recently.
A man who was recorded confessing to the killings of two Chinese graduate students near the University of Southern California was convicted on Monday of first-degree murder.
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