The People's Bank of China will continue to maintain a "prudent" monetary policy in 2015 while fine-tuning the policy when necessary, the regulator said in an online statement on Friday.
The stage is now set for Beijing and Latin American and Caribbean countries for the next five years to bring the relationship to an unprecedented level.
China's top science award was presented on Friday to nuclear physicist Yu Min, whose work led to a major breakthrough in the country's hydrogen bomb research.
Jaycee Chan, the son Chinese kung fu superstar Jackie Chan, was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday and fined 2,000 yuan ($322) for facilitating the drug use of others.
Trade and investment targets were included in a renewed pledge by President Xi Jinping on Thursday to boost China's economic support to Latin America.
A huge manhunt for two brothers suspected of massacring 12 people in an Islamist attack at a satirical French weekly zeroed in on a northern town on Thursday after the discovery of one of the getaway cars.
The People's Liberation Army navy has begun to adopt cutting-edge additive manufacturing technology, commonly known as 3D printing, on its ships, according to PLA Daily.
Officials are quickly gaining an appetite for persuading Chinese consumers to eat more potatoes.
The German electro-pop band Kraftwerk could easily have been referring to Beijing when, in the song Neon Lights, it observed: "Neon lights/shimmering neon lights/and at the fall of night/this city's made of light."
Item from Jan 9, 1987, in China Daily: "This year China will start work on adding four new railway lines totaling 1,000 kilometers ... The 260-kilometer Houma-Yueshan railway is designed to share the shipment of coal from China's major coal producing area in Shanxi ... The Baoji-Zhongwei line, totaling 502 kilometers, is to be built to facilitate the opening of coalfields in Gansu province."
The potato was categorized as a staple crop this week, joining rice, wheat and corn. The move aims to diversify the Chinese menu and meet soaring food demand.
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