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.
A steel building has a steel structure for internal support and for exterior cladding, as opposed to steel-framed buildings, which generally use other materials for floors, walls and external covering. Steel buildings have been used for many purposes, including storage, working and living spaces.
Tourists driving two Taiwan-registered private cars were allowed to travel in Xiamen, Fujian province, on Monday on the first leg of a four-day tour of the province, marking a breakthrough for cross-Straits travel.
A 17-year-old computer genius surnamed Ye shed tears as he was sent to a detention house in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, for stealing credit cards.
Sun Xianli used to make a good living from the sea, but since 2011 his income has fallen dramatically as a result of pollution and overexploitation of fish stocks. In 2012, Sun's crop of mussels at his "sea ranch" failed, and he lost his main source of revenue.
In March, the State Oceanic Administration launched a three-month-long inspection of the maritime environment called "Along the Coast", the second in an annual series of national surveys.
I became a fisherman when I was 19. At the time, there were a lot of fish in the ocean, but we only had a small wooden boat so we couldn't catch as many as we wanted.
Although the generation born in the 1990s has been widely labeled as selfish, lazy and money-worshipping, recent research has found otherwise, portraying the generation as calm, rational, trustworthy and full of positive energy.
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