A top official from the Xin-jiang Uygur autonomous region confirmed for the first time on Tuesday that Xinjiang residents have joined the radical group Islamic State.
China's employment market could come under greater pressure this year as the country faces a record number of college graduates and is expecting economic growth to hit a 25-year low, a government minister said on Tuesday.
Rare coins and jewelry from the time of Alexander the Great have been found by chance in a cave in northern Israel, according to officials with the Israel Antiquities Authority.
The COMAC C919, China's homegrown passenger jet, will make its maiden test flight before the end of the year, according to a senior official, who said assembly of the first prototype is progressing well.
Chinese mainland urban residents who envy "goodies" in annual budgets in Hong Kong and Singapore may find comfort in the fact that the idea of greater financial assistance for the middle class is gaining traction in the nation's capital.
Item from March 11, 1988, in China Daily: Zheng Guizhen, 39, from Gansu province, watches her artificially conceived baby daughter sleep soundly after a cesarean section yesterday morning in a Beijing hospital. Zheng has named the first test-tube baby born on the Chinese mainland Zheng Mengzhu, meaning a "pearl in the making".
According to the China Air Transport Association, 68 percent of flights operated by domestic airlines were on schedule last year, 4 percentage points lower than the previous year.
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Zhang Sheng, a deputy to the National People's Congress who runs a State-owned mining company in Heilongjiang province, has come to Beijing for the NPC's annual session this year with many questions.
China will soon conduct the first flight of the Long March 6 launch vehicle using the country's new-generation rocket engine, according to a senior scientist.
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