People in Guangdong province are well-known for liking fresh chicken, but they will soon have far fewer opportunities to buy live birds.
The area of western China covered by glaciers has decreased by 18.5 percent since the late 1950s, equivalent to the size of Cyprus, a recent survey shows.
Fan Ti, a 43-year-old lawyer specializing in financial cases, used to make at least 4 million yuan ($645,000) a year.
A Chinese-run sugar refinery in Madagascar damaged last week during a violent labor dispute will seek compensation from the government of the island nation, a spokesman said on Monday.
More than 1,400 kilometers of canal and pipeline began transferring water on Friday from China's longest river, the Yangtze, to the country's arid northern regions, including the nation's capital, Beijing.
The water transferred more than 1,400 kilometers by the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is expected to ease the pressure on pumping underground water, which has gone deeper due to overexploitation in recent years.
If the Aviation Industry Corp of China had announced 10 years ago that it wanted to compete with Western or Russian aviation giants such as Lockheed Martin and Sukhoi, its aspirations would have been dismissed as a daydream.
A monster transporter plane was unveiled at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition. The Y-20 Kunpeng, a four-turbofan strategic airlifter made by the Aviation Industry Corp of China, is set to go on the market, although the People's Liberation Army will be supplied before other customers.
Experts are calling for an accelerated scrapping of the one-child policy as the nation's birthrate moves toward a dangerously low level.
Concerns are growing in China that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, fresh from an election triumph, may once again sabotage the fragile Sino-Japanese relationship, after he reiterated twice within 24 hours of victory his ambitions for re-interpreting the pacifist Constitution.
Vehicle restrictions are to operate all year round at the West Lake scenic area in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, to improve the environment.
"The vehicle restrictions are inconvenient for residents. Few bus routes pass my home, and the frequency is usually 30 minutes. Many of my neighbors have two cars to cope with the rules."
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