It is dark outside and 19-year-old Wafaa Al Rimi has lit her solar lamp. Meanwhile, the noise of electricity generators, powered by fossil fuel, can be heard around the block. Many Yemenites are obliged to buy small generators, in the face of electricity shortages that last for up to 18 hours a day.
Local officials studied the general plan for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration, which was passed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist party of China, at a conference held by the Communist Party of China Beijing Municipal Committee on June 13.
During the past week Beijing has enjoyed predominantly bright blue skies, a sight many residents said they have not seen for a decade, as air pollution has become a daily headache for people in the capital.
Construction of a high-speed railway connecting Beijing and nearby Tangshan, Hebei province, will start within the year, said Liu Bozheng, deputy director of the Beijing Development and Reform Commission, during a recent forum on Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration.
As the capital of the nation, Beijing boasts abundant medical resources - for every thousand residents, there are 4.1 professional doctors, 4.9 trained nurses and five hospital beds. However, there are always long queues outside every hospital and patients often have to call months in advance to see a doctor.
What's a tourist to do? You've hammered years off your life in the nightclubs of Shanghai and shopped till you dropped in Hong Kong.
Memories are like fragments of images and voices interwoven by your feeling. Without the feeling, you remember nothing.
A whirlwind bus tour through Shanxi province left two dozen foreign writers and photographers with deep and lasting impressions as they returned to their homes throughout the world. They captured the experience in words and pictures, and were eager to share them.
An intangible cultural heritage show opened on Saturday at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing to mark this year's China Cultural Heritage Day.
The majority of European companies in China praise Chinese intellectual property laws and regulations, although many believe that enforcement still needs to be improved, and that this trend is improving, according to a report released on June 10 in Beijing by the European Union Chamber in China.
The improvement of copyright protection has played a vital role in the fast development of the ceramic industry in Dehua county, Fujian province, according to a report by the World Intellectual Property Organization and National Copyright Administration.
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