Zhuo Bingzhe vividly remembers how he joined the People's Liberation Army in his hometown in Northwest China's Shanxi province 65 years ago, and moved to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region as a soldier.
Finding wives for the more than 100,000 unmarried People's Liberation Army soldiers who formed the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in 1954 was one of the most urgent and difficult tasks facing the central government at the time.
Agriculture is a fundamental industry for the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and one in which it is a highly competitive player. The XPCC continues to build large-scale modern farms, which in 2013 grew a total of 1.47 million metric tons of cotton, accounting for 23.3 percent of the national total.
Before I became a reporter, my impression of life in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps revolved around boundless fields of cotton.
China's National Railway Administration should establish a working team to boost Premier Li Keqiang's efforts to help Chinese high-speed railway enterprises win projects abroad, a tunnel and rail expert said.
Clotilde Narzisi and Luca Soliman have run the Caffe Orefici, 200 meters from Milan's iconic Duomo Cathedral, for 10 years. Forced to sell their business because of high taxes, they say their only hope now is to leave it in Chinese hands.
Cold air was the first welcome present to me from the city of Heihe.
The heavy smog in Beijing last week has once again focused attention on the city's air pollution.
Transportation experts say softer but more persuasive measures, rather than harsh fines, will encourage drivers to use their seat belts.
Police in Beijing's Huairou district have added to and integrated their forces in a move to ensure security at the APEC meeting there in November.
With Beijing about to raise fees for public transportation, experts said that rings an alarm for other cities where low-price public transportation is not sustainable and can lead to severe overcrowding.
Twelve people were given the death penalty on Monday for their involvement in a terrorist attack in which 37 civilians were killed, according to a court statement.
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