The streets are more crowed and business is booming in Lhasa at the approach of Losar, Tibetan New Year, which coincides this year with the traditional Chinese Spring Festival.
The Buddhist Association of China has criticized the online auctioning of privileged access to temples via Alibaba's Taobao online shopping website during Spring Festival.
Chinese netizens are posting New Year's scrolls online to salute President Xi Jinping, according to People's Daily's overseas edition.
When the fireworks light up the night to celebrate Lunar New Year in Beijing, air quality in the capital will get worse, possibly leading to three days of severe pollution, the municipal environmental watchdog said on Monday.
President Xi Jinping said he wants to end poverty in old revolutionary base areas and improve local people's standard of living.
President Xi Jinping continued his visit in Shaanxi province over the weekend, heading to the city where his father set up a base for guerrilla forces more than 80 years ago and greeting people in Xi'an ahead of Chinese New Year, which falls on Thursday.
More than 2 million police officers are expected to get higher pay and better benefits in recognition of the pressures and risks of the job.
Major points of a guideline aimed at reforming public security bodies:
You wake up in the morning and, as usual, turn straight to your smartphone.
Item from Feb 16, 1989, in China Daily: Mourners line up to pay homage to the 10th Panchen Lama during the memorial service yesterday in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing ... Zhao Ziyang and Li Peng were among more than 1,000 mourners at yesterday's memorial service ... The Panchen Lama was a vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and a top religious leader of Tibet.
Li Zhi, an official in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, delivered his work report in five-character poems at the annual local people's congress last week.
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