China needs to improve its education and income levels and enhance environmental and ecological protection to achieve sustainable development by 2079, according to a report released this week by a national think tank.
The Chinese and Russian navies completed a nine-day joint exercise in Peter the Great Gulf, waters off the Clerk Cape and the Sea of Japan on Friday, and then held a joint naval military parade.
The average ecological footprint in China, a measure of how much of the Earth's natural resources people are using, is expected to reach its peak in 2029, according to a joint report released on Friday by the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China.
A nationwide audit of government cash and spending has found nearly 56.5 billion yuan ($8.8 billion) in funds sitting idle in the coffers of governments and other entities, despite calls by the State Council for funds to be put to productive use.
One central government official and 10 other officials and port executives in Tianjin are being held under investigation by China's top prosecutor in connection with the country's worst warehouse blasts in more than half a century.
A landmark gas deal between China and Russia that has been years in the making looks set to be finalized, as the countries prepare to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in World War II.
A man from East China successfully donated peripheral blood stem cells on Thursday at a hospital in Beijing, and the stem cells were then sent to the United States to help save a young leukemia patient.
Stocks on the Chinese mainland rebounded sharply on Thursday, gaining 5.34 percent and halting the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index's steepest five-day rout since 1996.
Yesterday, my colleague James Healy's column dwelt on Beijing drivers adjusting to a relatively new car culture.
Item from Aug 28, 1991, in China Daily: Workers from the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Factory in Sichuan province battle floods to save industrial water-pooling equipment from the Jinsha River.
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