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Tank maker seeks to increase exports on land armaments

[2015-06-05 07:40]

In an effort to increase sales of its tanks in the face of declining global demand, China North Industries Group Corp, the country's biggest developer and maker of land armaments, is turning to a popular smartphone social networking app.

Expo's Beijing Week closes with bid promotion for 2022 Winter Olympics

[2015-06-05 07:40]

Beijing Week at Italy's world exposition, Expo Milano 2015, closed on Wednesday with the promotion of Beijing's candidacy for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Chinese visitors become second-biggest group of foreign spenders on trips to US

[2015-06-05 07:40]

The approximately 2.2 million Chinese travelers who visited the United States last year spent more than $23 billion, making China the second-biggest source of foreign-tourist spending within the US, a new report says.

The great escape

[2015-06-05 07:40]

The dramatic story of how Chinese guerillas rescued Donald Kerr, a young US pilot shot down over wartime Hong Kong, will soon be released as a movie. Zhao Xu met with Kerr's son to hear about his father's dangerous journey home.

Economy will suffer if reform fails, tycoon says

[2015-06-04 07:55]

Hong Kong's economy will suffer if opposition lawmakers fail to support the government's constitutional reform proposal, tycoon Li Ka-shing warned on Wednesday.

Gaokao cheats targeted nationwide

[2015-06-04 07:55]

Provinces and cities are using a variety of new measures, including drones, to prevent cheating as one of the most important exams in China - the annual gaokao, or national college entrance exam - approaches.

Five-year plan 'to offer ecological boost'

[2015-06-04 07:55]

China will make more innovative efforts to push forward guidelines on ecological development, and offer more specifics in the nation's upcoming five-year plan, an economic think tank said on Wednesday.

Experts issue appeal for safer social media environment

[2015-06-04 07:55]

Personal attacks and malicious postings are an increasing problem on social media, and steps should be taken to provide a safer cyberenvironment, experts said at a seminar in Beijing on Tuesday.

IN BRIEF (Page 4)

[2015-06-04 07:55]

President and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping's vision for the educating of servicemen has been published, the military authority said on Wednesday.

Japan sees surge in Chinese tourists

[2015-06-04 07:55]

At about 10 pm at a drugstore in Tokyo's wealthy Akihabara district, two Japanese cashiers surnamed Nakayama and Mori were busy closing out their cash registers along with their Chinese colleague, a woman surnamed Xie.

Pioneer of pollution research nurtures talents

[2015-06-04 07:55]

Although he has been retired for more than two decades, 88-year-old academician Wang Wenxing has not stopped nurturing talent in environmental protection and promoting research of air pollution sources.

Visits among 3 Northeast Asian nations hit 20 million

[2015-06-04 07:55]

Senior diplomats from China, Japan and South Korea have voiced optimism about the expanding number of visits made among the three nations at a time when the three governments are resuming a number of ministerial-level trilateral dialogues.

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