The local history office in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, confirmed on Tuesday the date of the Soviet Volunteer Group's first combat in China during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
The pace of urbanization in China during the past 25 years has seen the decline of many villages. As people have drifted away to urban areas, those left behind feel lonely and isolated.
A number of old, redbrick, Japanese-style bungalows stand on a northerly hill at the former Garrison Command Headquarters in Liaoyuan, Jilin province, and hidden among them is an inconspicuous house dating to the 1930s.
When General Jonathan Wainwright and 33 other Allied officers were held at Liaoyuan Prisoner of War Camp in Jilin province in 1944 and 1945, the regime was unremittingly harsh.
Sun Ying, who tutored three college students to win the top prize for Asia at an international wine competition, sees great prospects for sommeliers in Southwest China.
Police in Hong Kong have arrested one suspect in the abduction of the heiress of an apparel chain's founder, and the rest of the gang is thought to be hiding in the city's hilly countryside.
Climate change threatens some of China's most important infrastructure projects, the country's top meteorologist warned in a State newspaper, adding that the country's rate of warming was higher than the global average.
Hong Kong mourned the loss on Monday of Lu Ping, the central government official who oversaw Hong Kong's return to the motherland.
China will regulate the tourism market by clamping down on unreasonably cheap trips, according to a senior official at the China National Tourism Administration.
Safety statistics released on Monday by the railway authority show that there were fewer railroad accidents and deaths last year than in 2013.
Editor's note: In recent years, China has witnessed the largest growth in building construction in the world, around 2 billion square meters of floor space added annually, with the associated huge amount of waste generated during the building work. Prefabrication may offer a solution to the waste problem, as well as creating green buildings.
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