New rules to prevent corruption at China's top think tank mean higher government officials no longer will be nominated as candidates for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academic society known for its cutting-edge research projects.
The scenes of celebration at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center on Friday brought back memories of 2001 when Beijing won its first Olympic bid for the 2008 Summer Games.The scenes of celebration at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center on Friday brought back memories of 2001 when Beijing won its first Olympic bid for the 2008 Summer Games.
President Xi Jinping sent a letter of appreciation to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on Friday evening, expressing thanks to the IOC for its trust and support in selecting Beijing, together with Zhangjiakou, as the host of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Bid officials said winning the hosting rights for the 2022 Winter Olympics will fuel regional integration between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province, especially on transportation, air pollution control and tourism.
Competing in the Olympic Games at home is no doubt a unique experience, once in a lifetime, appealing to any athlete around the world.
Winning the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games means there will be more travelers and skiers in Chongli county, which the locals expect will boost the business of guesthouses.
"Beijing has won the chance to host the Winter Olympic Games. That's because we trust the capacity of the Chinese people."
China will closely follow the investigation into a piece of debris from an airliner found on Reunion Island off the east coast of Africa as experts suspected it might belong to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished 16 months ago with 154 Chinese onboard.
Guo Boxiong, a former Chinese military leader, was expelled from the Communist Party of China for taking bribes, according to a decision made by the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau on Thursday.
An 18-year-old woman was kidnapped and sold deep into the mountains where she was forced into marriage.
Item from July 31, 1981, in China Daily: After trial production, the Beijing Broadcasting Equipment Factory has begun manufacturing a high-powered TV transmitter which can televise or relay programs in both color and black-and-white. The transmitter has been judged up to the level of products of the 1970s in foreign countries.
On Wednesday, Beijing-based newspaper The Mirror reported that Paris police have deployed more officers to protect Chinese tourists from robbers and pickpockets.
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