The revised environmental protection law showed its teeth in its first two months, with more than 350 polluters receiving severe punishments, the national environmental watchdog said on Monday.
The Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiatives are expected to further stimulate business this year between China and trading partners along the routes through diversified trade activities, investment and currency exchanges.
Continuing weakness in industrial activity is forcing the Chinese government to adopt more aggressive policies to accelerate growth and increase employment, economists said.
The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, began his visit to China on Sunday, marking the first visit to China by a senior British royal in close to three decades.
Iraq's national museum officially reopened on Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 pieces looted during the US-led invasion were recovered.
China will continue its efforts to protect giant pandas by expanding nature reserves and forbidding all kinds of construction and development in their habitats and surrounding areas.
One of the hottest topics of discussion during recent Lunar New Year gatherings at our house centered around a newsmaker - a Chinese man who had succeeded in getting a historic trip to Mars.
Item from March 2, 1992, in China Daily: Chinese workers lay a power cable crossing the border between China's Northeast and Russia. The 1.26-kilometer-long international cable will be the first line through which the Russian Federation can sell electricity to China.
More than half of the respondents in a newspaper poll said they were unhappy with the photos on their ID cards, which are arranged by the police once citizens turn 16 and renewed regularly.
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As a result of the widening national drive to combat graft, Ling Jihua, former vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and 12 other deputies have been dismissed or forced to resign since March 2013 following corruption investigations, authorities said on Sunday.
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