China's foreign exchange reserves shrank by $180 billion in the third quarter - the largest fall in two decades - following the central bank's move to hold the yuan's value through selling US dollars.
Months after winning a national title, Harvard's debate team has fallen to a group of New York prison inmates.
I read in the news not long ago about a woman in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, who had set up an e-business selling "good-night" text messages. For 1 yuan, a mere 16 US cents, she would metaphorically speaking tuck her customers in.
Item from Oct 8, 1994, in China Daily: Herbal medicines have become the economic pillar of Bozhou, Anhui province, which enjoys the reputation as the "Metropolis of Chinese medicine". A total of 3 million kilograms of herbal medicines in 2,000 varieties are traded on the city's medicine market. The annual business volume is as much as 2.5 million yuan.
Traffic authorities have tightened up the monitoring of drivers using the shoulder on freeways, hoping to ease congestion as the weeklong National Day holiday comes to an end.
China's admiration of outstanding scholars has turned the well-preserved childhood home of Tu Youyou, the Chinese pharmacologist who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, into a popular tourist destination.
As millions of travelers headed home on Wednesday on the last day of the weeklong National Day holiday, many in northern China, including in Beijing and Tianjin, encountered thick smog that cut visibility, hampered traffic and soured their mood.
Cross-Straits relations are expected to deepen as the mainland's Taiwan affairs chief, Zhang Zhijun, prepares to meet Andrew Hsia, his counterpart from Taiwan, in Guangdong province from Oct 13 to 15.
Country has open attitude toward efforts promoting regional integration
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