I have a close friend back in California who came to Beijing as a tourist in the 1980s. His impressions of what the city was like then are similar to mine today.
Item from Feb 10, 1993, in China Daily: Dozens of cars are seen on top of a cargo ship belonging to the Ocean Shipping Companies Group.
Chinese officials are now required to report their earnings from published books, paintings and stocks before they can advance in their careers.
What our reporters and editors will be following today. See breaking news on chinadaily.com.cn
Most of the workers at a well-known Japanese company in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, that shut down last week have signed contracts to leave the company of their own accord after mediation from local labor department and trade unions by Monday noon.
Lu Wei, head of the Chinese Internet regulator, and the US Ambassador to China Max Baucus are WeChat buddies.
A man who raped and murdered a woman in 1996 - a crime for which an innocent man was wrongly executed - was sentenced to death on Monday for those crimes and for killing nine other people.
To clean up scandals in Chinese sports, the country's sports authorities should end the obsession with winning medals by introducing more diversified criteria for performance assessments than merely the results of competitions, observers said.
Hundreds of people were invited via the Internet to taste genetically modified rice at restaurants in 23 cities across China on Sunday in a move to further promote GM foods to the general public.
Five members of a Mafia-style gang were executed on Monday in Hubei province.
Arrangements are being made for Xi Jinping to pay his first state visit later this year to the United States as president of China, a senior Chinese diplomat confirmed.
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