The Chinese stock market was jolted out of its prolonged doldrums on Tuesday by signs that the central government is moving to clean up the mess created by trillions of yuan of entangled local government debt.
China is to launch a comprehensive audit of the overseas assets of its State-owned enterprises in an attempt to tighten oversight of their international operations.
I had a memorable trip to Yunnan province in the early 1990s, traveling south from the capital Kunming to Xishuangbanna, near the border with Myanmar.
Item from March 18, 1986, in China Daily: Lack of funds hinders the progress of the postal service and the difficulty to reach far-flung villages has to be overcome by postmen riding bicycles. The photo shows postman Zhang Guangwu in Su county, Anhui province, delivering newspapers to a subscriber.
The share prices of a number of sports-related companies rose earlier this week, amid the latest announcement of reforms to promote Chinese soccer.
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Six months before his first state visit to the United States, President Xi Jinping sent a message about China's willingness to strengthen cooperation and dispel misunderstandings when he met on Tuesday with a key figure who helped establish formal Sino-US relations in the 1970s.
China, Japan and South Korea announced on Tuesday that they will hold their seventh trilateral foreign ministers' meeting later this month, resuming the annual top diplomats' gathering after a two-year hiatus.
A retired senior military official in Zhejiang province has been placed under investigation, news magazine Caixin reported on Tuesday.
Two lawyers representing the family of Nie Shubin, who was executed in 1995 after being convicted of raping and killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, went to the Shandong High People's Court on Tuesday to read judicial documents related to the case.
Once regarded as unattainable dreams, hosting and eventually winning the soccer World Cup have become serious goals for China under a national plan unveiled on Monday to make the sport a truly mass game.
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