The Ministry of Environmental Protection has started to clean up its assessment procedures in an effort to stop new businesses being built that would cause pollution.
A super typhoon is expected to make landfall in Taiwan, Fujian province and other eastern and southern areas of China on Saturday.
Wei Jianxing, a former head of China's top anti-graft body, died from an illness in Beijing at 8 am on Friday, according to an official announcement.
A Chinese university will send scientific equipment to the International Space Station in collaboration with a private company in the United States, a move that will help explore opportunities for space cooperation between China and the US, a senior Chinese scientist said.
Many Chinese relatives of passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reacted with anger and disbelief after the prime minister of Malaysia confirmed that a piece of wing debris found last week on an island in the Indian Ocean was from the missing airliner.
China's top diplomat Wang Yi said on Thursday that the world is watching Japan's reactions as the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II nears.
Bells tolled and thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Hiroshima on Thursday at ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
China faces a serious threat of deteriorating land and the extinction of rare animals and plants, though it has formed a basic network of protection zones, the national environmental protection authority said.
It is becoming compulsory viewing - highly motivated Chinese teachers taking on an unruly class of English teenagers at a state school in Hampshire, aiming to subject them to Chinese-style education techniques for four weeks.
Item from Aug 7, 1988, in China Daily: Beijing's Capital Taxi Company keeps a fleet of 40 Red Flag limousines to rent to foreign visitors ... The first Red Flag limousine rolled off the assembly line in July 1958 ... In the following year, 10 such models were made on the occasion of the 10th National Day ...
About one-fifth of students in the capital are expected to suffer from worsening eyesight because of an overuse of smartphones and other similar devices during the summer vacation, according to the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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