Item from Jan 12, 1982, in China Daily: As the United States has its Cape Canaveral and the Soviet Union has its Baikonur Cosmodrome, China has its Jiuquan - another window to outer space ... This green city in the desert is where the Chinese satellites are sent into space ... construction of the site began in the late 1950s. Jiuquan is now the launch complex of China containing technical testing, launch, remote monitoring, optical and radar-monitoring centers.
While denouncing the terror attack in Paris, Chinese intellectuals are also asking themselves questions about ideas like free expression and media ethics. Read the stories on pages 1 and 12.
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Authorities in Shanghai are taking additional steps at activities or events that involve large numbers of people to prevent another tragedy like the deadly stampede on New Year's Eve that killed 36 people.
China is willing to help Africa to realize its dream of building up a high-speed railway network, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during his visit to Kenya on Saturday.
A 1,200-kilometer highway that links two of China's biggest cities is being equipped with a charging system for electric vehicles, a big sign of improvement in the development of such facilities.
A city environmental watchdog has lashed out against a giant petrochemical company and ordered it to apologize to the public in a rare case of government lambasting a State-owned corporation.
Nuclear physicist Yu Min won China's top science award on Friday for his outstanding contribution to the country's hydrogen bomb research.
Models in over-revealing costumes are disappearing quickly in China - first in TV dramas and now probably from trade shows.
The upcoming Year of the Sheep, regarded as the most inauspicious for childbirth according to Chinese superstition, is resulting in sluggish business for maternity hospitals and service providers.
Elite French forces surrounded two brothers on Friday who are suspected of slaughtering 12 people during an Islamist massacre in Paris earlier this week.
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