The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will ensure that projects it funds are sustainable and environmentally friendly, Jin Liqun, the head of the working group charged with establishing the bank, said on Saturday.
As the country steps up efforts to root out corruption, auditors are playing an important role in tracking down irregularities in State-owned enterprises, and 4 billion yuan ($640 million) of public money has been retrieved so far.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing "will not indulge actions of encroaching and infringing Chinese territory, rights and interests" when it comes to the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea.
Song Andong has become the first Chinese-born player to be selected in the National Hockey League draft - a showcase for the best young amateurs from leagues in North America and Europe.
Alimjan Maimaitiming, secretary general of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region government, is being investigated on suspicion of serious violations of discipline, a common term for corruption, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on Sunday.
A traditional Chinese medicine preparation used to treat cancer and boost patients' immunity has been given the go-ahead for a third phase of clinical trials in the US, the last major hurdle for those wishing to launch new drugs in the US market.
China has become a world leader in high-speed railway technology with its development of a cutting-edge permanent magnet synchronous traction system that will take bullet trains to an ultrafast 500 kilometers per hour.
Even if the Chinese economy overtakes the United States as the world's largest in the next 10 years, there will still be an obvious gap between their comprehensive powers and the quality of their economies. So at least for the next two decades, China's strategy should be to play the role of the world's No 2 power.
Beijing's toughest-ever ban on smoking in public places from June 1 prohibits smoking in all indoor public places and public transport vehicles. It is even cited that the new regulation bans people from smoking in any public space that has a roof.
Although authorities have labeled it speculation, the rumor over the amendment to the Criminal Law to ensure that everyone guilty of abducting children faces punishment up to the death penalty is still being widely reposted on social networks.
Some Chinese policymakers who attended the 7th China-US Strategic & Economic Dialogue in Washington this week might have delivered a key message to their US counterparts by showing them photographs of blue skies in Beijing that they had saved in their smartphones.
The church in Charleston where nine African Americans were gunned down reopened on Saturday, as a chilling website apparently created by the suspected white supremacist shooter emerged.
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