Recently, an aging rock star was spotted with a bulging waistline and a receding hairline. Worse, he was on the subway. Even though he was wearing dark glasses, snapshots taken by a fellow passenger surfaced online and he was identified as Dou Wei.
Item from May 7, 1997, in China Daily: The sale of leaded fuel will be forbidden within Beijing city proper starting June 1, 1997, while the sale of leaded fuel in outlying areas will be forbidden as of Jan 1, 1998, the Beijing municipal government said yesterday.
Shanghai is banning officials' relatives from starting private businesses to help prevent any corruption and abuse of power.
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Premier Li Keqiang said the economic goals of China and the European Union can dovetail naturally with a win-win strategy.
Zhu Xiaoxiang, a Chinese researcher, was among the 10 winners of the 2015 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the most important award for early-career scientific researchers in Germany, at a ceremony in Berlin on Tuesday.
Life in Russia - or the former Soviet Union, to be precise - represented Li Shuhua's entire childhood. And the 79-year-old vividly remembers the day when news broke on June 22, 1941, that Nazi Germany had attacked the Soviets.
China will explore the use of the Internet, cloud computing and big data to transform care for the aged and further boost the use of e-commerce among seniors, according to Zou Ming, vice-minister of civil affairs.
Building better facilities for the elderly and applying high standards of care will be critical as China deals with an increasingly old population, according to an official of the International Federation on Ageing.
People should switch off their smartphones for an hour every day to prevent the use of mobile apps from eroding family ties and restricting direct communication between people, say researchers.
Many college students who are about to graduate are still struggling to find work, but almost all the 58 students majoring in midwifery at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, have already landed well-paid jobs at respected hospitals.
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