Tourism from the mainland to Taiwan could slow, as Taiwan is in a "special and sensitive time" ahead of January's elections, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said at Wednesday's regular news briefing.
A senior Chinese official has been relieved of his position at the Communist Party of China Central Committee and will take a new position at Peking University.
The China State Forest Administration and the WWF, one of the world's largest independent conservation organizations, signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday on Shanhai's Chongming Island, their first MOU to include coastal wetland protection.
Affluent Chinese tourists are seeking unique and personalized experiences in the US as they have more confidence and flexibility to travel on their own, said tour operators.
China said on Tuesday that two of its navy warships sent out warnings after the United States sent a guided-missile destroyer to patrol within 12 nautical miles (22.2 kilometers) of a Chinese island in the South China Sea.
A third-generation supersonic trainer aircraft has been introduced to the People's Liberation Army Air Force's flight schools - a move experts said will shorten pilots' training time and prepare them for advanced fighter jets.
Social development and improving people's livelihoods form the major part of China's next five-year development plan, according to a leading economist and adviser on drafting of the blueprint.
China has called on the Republic of Korea and Japan to "eliminate disturbances" to get the trilateral relationship back on track at a key summit this weekend.
They say that lightning never strikes twice. So, imagine my surprise when I discovered recently that Beijing's currency counterfeiters had hit me not just once, and not merely twice, but thrice in a single day.
Item from Oct 28, 1983, in China Daily: Victory salute ... the Chinese men's gymnastics team acknowledge the cheers of the audience at the World Gymnastics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. And the team had good reason to celebrate - by taking the gold medal they had deposed the Soviet Union as men's team champions.
A woman in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, recently created a furor by breastfeeding her baby on the bus.
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