As he walked to the courtside seats with his wife and young daughter, Yao Ming stole the show from the stars of the NBA's Sacramento Kings and Brooklyn Nets at their pre-season game in Shanghai on Sunday.
The NBA's relationship with China was cemented in 1989 when then-Commissioner David Stern showed up at China Central Television with a bag of video cassettes to convince the station's executives that the NBA was worth showing to hundreds of millions of basketball fans across China.
David Shoemaker, CEO of NBA China, has vivid memories of the day in 2011 when Yao Ming announced his retirement.
Italian Ambassador to China Alberto Bradanini said he hopes Premier Li Keqiang's visit this week will not only produce more exports to China but encourage Chinese tourists to take longer vacations in the "country of surprises".
Italy will give a "big push" to China and the European Union for free trade talks, a senior Italian trade official said.
Xiamen University authorities fired a professor who faces multiple accusations of sexually harassing and having sex with female students, saying on Tuesday that "the behavior of the professor has been verified".
The Ministry of Science and Technology said on Friday that several people had been detained or punished since the National Audit Office found that seven professors in five universities were involved in academic corruption in April 2012.
Thirty-one senior officials have been found guilty as of Monday of taking bribes since China launched a campaign to clean up government in late 2012, according to court rulings listed by China's anti-graft body.
When her cage was opened at 10 am on Tuesday, 2-year-old panda Xue Xue did not come out as expected.
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa may adversely affect the China Import and Export Fair, as the number of foreign buyers at the upcoming event is expected to fall, organizers said on Tuesday.
This year's Canton Fair will meet the challenges of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road by developing a more diversified trading platform for countries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, South Asia and the Persian Gulf region.
Grinning with pride, a Chinese farmer held out two precious walnuts - globes so precisely symmetrical that consumers in search of hand massages value them more highly than gold.
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