China Daily reporter Zhao Lei interviews Cui Yiliang, editor-in-chief of Modern Ships magazine:
After 10 hours of floating in a life jacket down the Yangtze River, Zhang Hui was finally rescued.
One of the curious things about people in the United States is that they think they own their government. This plays out in a number of ways, but there is one constant: Ordinary citizens want to know what the government is doing in their name. And when it does something secretly to which they object, they want it dragged into the sunshine.
Item from June 3, 1988, in China Daily: A marine corps craft leaves its mother ship and moves toward shore. The marine corps of the People's Liberation Army is strengthening its military training and equipment to safeguard national interests and the security of China's territorial waters.
Beijing authorities are encouraging taxi drivers to use electric vehicles to fight air pollution. But many motorists cite inadequate recharging facilities as a major obstacle.
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The chances of heavy flooding have increased on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, officials warned on Tuesday.
More than 100 relatives of the 204 Jiangsu residents aboard the capsized Yangtze River cruise ship gathered in Nanjing's Shijiyuan Hotel on Tuesday to wait for information about the rescue and recovery efforts.
A tornado lasting for more than 15 minutes hit the Yangtze River near Jianli, Hubei province, on Monday night when a ship carrying 456 people capsized, the national weather authority said on Tuesday.
Cruise companies in Chongqing said on Tuesday that their business had not been affected by Monday's tragedy on the Yangtze River and that cruising is still safe.
The expanded China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone will loosen employment policies for overseas candidates and give international students the chance to work in the zone, said Sun Jiwei, head of Pudong New Area.
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