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.
China and Canada started issuing reciprocal visas on Monday, with increased exchanges becoming essential to both countries.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, referring to her own country's experience, reminded Japan on Monday of the need to confront squarely its wartime past.
Cliched as it may sound a picture is indeed worth a thousand words. Perfectly fitting this description is a photograph on China Daily's website on March 7.
Item from March 10, 1993, in China Daily: A woman tries her new magnetized phone card at a cardphone booth in Changsha, capital of Hunan province. To date, Changsha has installed 108 special card telephones and 100,000 people own such cards.
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