A current view of the Pudong New Area (top) contrasts with one taken in the early 1990s after construction work began. Yang Huanmin and Jin Rong/ for China Daily
Government budgets for overseas travel, official vehicles and receptions will be reduced by 11.7 percent this year to promote frugality, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday.
Excessive exploitation of groundwater in downtown Beijing and the reduced volume for storage have aggravated the instability of the water ecosystem, according to a regional development report released on Thursday.
China's influence and executive power in the world are rising fast. At the same time, there are many big, difficult and urgent matters China has to address. China needs more high-quality think tanks to contribute their wisdom to help the government and Communist Party of China solve these challenges.
China's regional and local government bond market will be developed with its own characteristics, following neither the United States or Northeastern Asian models, according to Jenny Shi, managing director and country manager for China of rating agency Moody's Investors Service Inc.
Sweet-shooting Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors have the best record, an unmatched home-court advantage, and the understanding that means nothing now.
Finding a hot cup of Chinese tea or a bowl of congee for breakfast is a delightful surprise for Chinese tourists traveling overseas. Now a hospitality group is offering much more than that as it develops global standards for Chinese visitors to its facilities around the world.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate cease-fire in Yemen as he began the hunt for a new peace envoy to the war-torn country, where al-Qaida is expanding its territory.
The nation's ongoing austerity and anti-graft campaign has taken a bite out of the sale of luxury liquors, but a middle class surging in size and with an increasingly mature palate is developing a taste for spirits.
The US Library of Congress deems her a Living Legend. Over the past five decades, the mother of three has logged more than 7,000 hours undersea, discovering tens of thousands of species of aquatic life.
The medieval hamlet of Sant'Andrea in Percussina sits in the Tuscan hills amid rose-covered stone farmhouses and small country chapels surrounded by acres of silver-green olive groves.
My boots were soaked, and the air reeked of overripe apples. I felt as if I were bathing in the cider I'd come to drink. It was early October and steamy; if the leaves that blazed red from nearly every tree branch were seasonal stop signs, the gods of summer hadn't seen them.
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