More than 1,400 kilometers of canal and pipeline began transferring water on Friday from China's longest river, the Yangtze, to the country's arid northern regions, including the nation's capital, Beijing.
The water transferred more than 1,400 kilometers by the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is expected to ease the pressure on pumping underground water, which has gone deeper due to overexploitation in recent years.
If the Aviation Industry Corp of China had announced 10 years ago that it wanted to compete with Western or Russian aviation giants such as Lockheed Martin and Sukhoi, its aspirations would have been dismissed as a daydream.
A monster transporter plane was unveiled at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition. The Y-20 Kunpeng, a four-turbofan strategic airlifter made by the Aviation Industry Corp of China, is set to go on the market, although the People's Liberation Army will be supplied before other customers.
Experts are calling for an accelerated scrapping of the one-child policy as the nation's birthrate moves toward a dangerously low level.
Concerns are growing in China that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, fresh from an election triumph, may once again sabotage the fragile Sino-Japanese relationship, after he reiterated twice within 24 hours of victory his ambitions for re-interpreting the pacifist Constitution.
Vehicle restrictions are to operate all year round at the West Lake scenic area in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, to improve the environment.
"The vehicle restrictions are inconvenient for residents. Few bus routes pass my home, and the frequency is usually 30 minutes. Many of my neighbors have two cars to cope with the rules."
The People's Liberation Army has pledged to tighten controls on civilian drones and private aircraft, saying unapproved flights pose a severe threat to airlines and national security.
Ablimit Tudi, a 67-year-old farmer in Kashgar, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, enthusiastically supports a "gift goat" program that began in the district in December 2011.
Even by Beijing's jaw-dropping property standards, the asking price seemed stratospheric: 1.35 million yuan ($220,000) for little more than a 4.4 square meter box big enough to house a double bed, but nothing else.
Traditionally, Chinese parents have always zealously provided good education for their children, and the belief that "knowledge changes fate" is deeply rooted in the public psyche.
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