Item from July 29, 1988, in China Daily: Customers buy high-grade cigarettes at Beijing's Xidan Market yesterday, which was the first day after the State lifted price controls over cigarettes and liquors.
A recent nation wide survey by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security showed that about half the number of employees polled take paid leave, which is part of workers' rights under Chinese law.
The United States became China's biggest online exporter in 2014, in particular for education, healthcare and food products, according to a report released in Beijing on Tuesday.
With the selection of the 2022 Winter Olympics' host city around the corner, Beijing has eased concerns about transportation as well as the lack of natural snowfall at its proposed venues, promising a successful Games.
Immersed in a cloud of sawdust, carpenter Dainzhen Lhamo vigorously gouged scratches into a newly carved door using a steel brush, marring the entrance to a half-finished wooden house in the town of Dukezong.
China will encourage the public, businesses and non-governmental organizations to help prevent soil depletion, or desertification, and reclaim land that has been damaged.
China has strongly condemned a deadly car bombing at a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Sunday that killed at least 15 people, including one Chinese embassy staff member.
Chinese equities plunged on Monday by nearly 8.5 percent, the worst single-day decline in eight years, rekindling investors' fears of a "double dip" after the benchmark index suffered a massive 30 percent loss in June and early July.
Chinese property giant Dalian Wanda is at the center of a fiery public and political debate in Spain over its plans to demolish an iconic building in central Madrid.
Steel mills in Beijing and neighboring regions will be shut down or reduce production starting in late August to guarantee quality air for the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sept 3.
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