The Ministry of Education will implement stronger scrutiny over the university system's leaders and impose harsher punishments for corruption, the country's top anti-graft agency said on Sunday.
The former deputy head of the Guangzhou Municipal Health Bureau, Qiu Chunlei, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court for taking bribes of 4.15 million yuan ($675,000) from his mistress and a relative.
Beijing has started to regulate electric self-balancing scooters after Shanghai and several other major cities recently prohibited their use on roads.
When Li Xiangbo thinks back to his childhood, he remembers the winter solstice, or dongzhi, as being more important than his birthday.
Xiong Qi, a native of Central China's Hunan province who now lives in Shanghai, has decided to celebrate the "winter festival" by taking a trip to Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, to visit its famous ice festival.
Yan Zhibiao arrived at Gongbei Port before 7 am to join a long winding line where thousands jostled each other in a crowd half the size of a football field.
Few people would notice an unattractive, five-story residential building that stands behind the dazzling Grand Lisboa Hotel.
The Macao Special Administrative Region has developed quickly since its return to the motherland, Italian experts say.
Macao is defined by extravagance, but Winni Iong, once recognized as the face of the city, enjoys a life away from the glitz and dazzle.
Master baker Liang Canguang, the creator of Koi Kei, a bakery that gained a foothold in Macao before being well received in some foreign countries, started his family business by selling peanut candy from a pushcart when he was just 16.
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a speech by Premier Li Keqiang at the Fourth China and Central and Eastern European Countries Economic and Trade Forum in Belgrade, Serbia, on Tuesday.
China has developed a nonlethal, directed-energy microwave weapon, that experts suggest can be used in anti-pirate and anti-terrorism operations.
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