Luo Shugang has been appointed the minister of culture, China's top legislature announced on Sunday.
Beijing will do its best to save water. I am calling for all people in the capital to cherish, save and make good use of every drop."
China has renovated a total of 20.8 million housing units in the country's urban shantytown areas since 2004, according to a statement on the central government website, www.gov.cn.
Photo: Migrant worker and cat lover Li keeps more than 50 cats at his home in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. Over the past six years, he has spent nearly all his meager salary on the animals. To care for them, he has not returned to his hometown in Hunan province since arriving in Guangzhou.
China will strengthen financial intelligence exchanges with the United States and Australia to track corrupt Chinese officials' illegal assets and fight money laundering, a senior official from the Ministry of Justice said.
This year, 105 Siberian tiger cubs, one of the world's most endangered animals, were born at a tiger park in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, the park said on Sunday.
The Chinese embassy in Indonesia urged local authorities on Sunday to thoroughly investigate a recent high-profile rape case involving a Chinese woman and two Indonesian airport security officers.
Beijing's public transportation system adopted a new fare structure on Sunday in the first ticket price rise in seven years, and authorities warned of a crowded rush hour on Monday as passengers familiarize themselves with the new system.
Beijing began trial operations on four new subway lines on Sunday in its latest effort to ease the city's traffic jams.
"I think the fares are still incredibly cheap when compared with cities like London, Madrid and New York. I know they have risen quite a lot in relative terms here, but it is still very good value for tourists like us."
English training classes from K-12 levels seem to have recovered from shrinking numbers last year, following plans to reform the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, educators said.
Adele Bai, general manager and executive vice-president of EF Education First Kids & Teens China, a Swedish-owned global language teaching company
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