Premier Li Keqiang said progress on the Piraeus Port project will strengthen Chinese enterprises' confidence to invest in Greece, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said his country "firmly supports and is proactively pressing ahead" with the project.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection released a draft of public rights on Tuesday to encourage participation in projects and policies involving the environment.
The excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides is increasing agricultural pollution in China, a senior official said on Tuesday, as the country's agricultural authority launched a five-year action plan to curb pollution in rural areas.
United States companies are poised to benefit from more deals as China looks to build smart cities based on clean energy.
China's foreign trade volume contracted by 13.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter to $904 billion, heightening concerns over the nation's economic growth.
Less than three weeks before the Milan Expo opens on May 1, the site of the showpiece event is still a mass of trucks raising dust and workers in hard hats racing to finish building after delays, corruption and cost overruns.
As former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton embarks on her second presidential bid, observers believe she will adopt a hard-line stance toward China, at least during the campaign.
I once mused aloud to my father, a World War II veteran, that his war appeared to have been fought in black and white. I was joking about the newsreels from the days before the rise of color film. He stopped me with a quiet, sobering reply: "Yes it was black and white-good and evil."
Item from April 14, 1999, in China Daily: Workers place cement slabs on the bed of the Tongzi Moat around the Forbidden City in Beijing. The moat has been given a thorough cleanup in the last few months. The bricks are designed to improve water-holding ability and curb subsidence.
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has launched her second campaign for president, becoming the first major Democrat to formally declare her candidacy.
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