More than one year after President Xi Jinping announced China's megaplan to better connect the Asia-Pacific region with Europe and Africa by land and sea, the world has become familiar with the concepts of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
He Zhenliang, who is known for his irreplaceable role in China's successful bid in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, died of illness on Jan 4, 2015 in Beijing at the age of 85. He was remembered for his significant contribution to China's Olympic efforts and was called Chinese Olympics "Godfather".
The slowdown of the Chinese economy poses a higher requirement for China to make better use of external production factors. The Chinese mainland is constructing a new type of open economic system featuring inviting in and going out.
THE STATE COUNCIL has finished soliciting public opinions about the draft regulation on the household registration system, which is expected to reform the decades-old hukou system and grant those migrating from rural to urban areas equal access to public services in towns and cities. Comments:
TWELVE PEOPLE STOOD on the top of a government building in Shuozhou, Shanxi province, on Monday, saying they would jump unless the authorities caught a local official who fled after illegally raising 180 million yuan ($29 million) from them. Police and officials finally managed to persuade them to come down. Comments:
A video showing a police officer treading on the long hair of a female rural migrant worker, believed to have been beaten to death by police officers, not only shames the police in the city of Taiyuan, where the incident took place on Dec 13. It has also raised the question of how police officers should be prevented from using violence.
The Chinese government is good at reforms, except reform of its own vehicle use.
The year 2015, the last year of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) and also the starting year for comprehensively advancing the governance of the nation by rule of law, is expected to witness the government's intensified efforts to push forward overall and deepened reforms.
Five young firefighters, aged between 18 and 22, were killed and another 14 injured in a warehouse blaze in Harbin, capital city of the Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. The cause of the fire on Jan 2, which resulted in the collapse of the building, is still being investigated.
The frequent fires that have razed the country's ancient buildings, some of them well-preserved cultural relics, have highlighted the need for the authorities to put in place stricter and more effective measures for the protection of these precious cultural gems.
News from Japan's health ministry on the last day of 2014 did not augur well for the country, as the population dropped by a record 268,000 last year.
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