Wildlife watchers and hikers are posing a risk to a vital passageway used by giant pandas in China's southwest to find partners during mating season, conservationists have warned.
As a deputy to the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, Hou Rong, director of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province, made the suggestion during the annual session in March to regulate tourists to protect animals.
A report by the State Forestry Administration of China shows high-voltage power lines and roads are putting a strain on panda habitats in the southwest.
In a remote village in the hills of Yongchuan in western Chongqing, a young woman with a sun hat waves a long bamboo stick to keep her herd of goats together.
Five people have lived on Yang Huaiyuan's donated body organs since he was pronounced brain dead on April 3 after an automobile crash.
Twelve central government departments, including the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security, will launch a nationwide crackdown this month on illegal surrogacy services, according to a notice.
Cultural experts and government workers in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, are consulting the country's top professionals to protect local ancestral temples and prepare for a UNESCO World Heritage application.
Poor harvest results of a hybrid rice variety, promoted for its supposed super-yield properties, have prompted farmers to think twice about future seed purchases.
A popular host at China Central Television, Bi Fujian, was suspended from his post and is under investigation for making vulgar remarks about late Chairman Mao Zedong, a source said on Friday.
Thailand expects to attract nearly 6 million Chinese tourists to the country this year, a nearly 30-percent increase from last year, despite recent reports about Chinese tourists' inappropriate behavior during their journey to the kingdom, the country's minister of tourism said on Wednesday.
A former senior official in Guizhou province was sentenced to 16 years in prison after he was convicted of taking bribes and abusing power by a court in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on Thursday.
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