Beijing authorities are speeding up the development of the capital's Tongzhou district as its "subsidiary administrative center" to address problems such as traffic congestion and air pollution.
A tour to meet "ordinary Chinese families" who provided extraordinary care to thousands of children left behind by Japanese troops in 1945 left many in tears on Wednesday at a meeting in Beijing between China's vice-president and some of the survivors.
History this way passed. The Lugouqiao, adorned with hundreds of lion figurines, near the Wanping Fortress in Beijing's Fengtai district - often referred to as the Marco Polo Bridge - still stands.
A top Chinese official will make a rare political visit to Hanoi on Thursday and is scheduled to have talks with Vietnamese leaders amid lingering maritime tensions between the two neighbors.
China pledged to keep the yuan exchange rate "basically stable" after some economists said the country's recent stock market rout threatened its financial stability and might lead to the currency's devaluation.
Teheran and six world powers reached a historic nuclear deal in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday that will enable a revitalized sanction-free Iran to boost trade and cooperation with China, analysts said.
Beijing and Zhangjiakou's existing and planned facilities will be capable of hosting all categories of snow sports if their joint bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics succeeds, visiting experts from a leading Swiss ski resort said on Tuesday.
Pit, only 2 years old and with one eye, needed just 11 minutes to locate a deadly mine buried in a Cambodian field, a task that humans with metal detectors could have taken up to five days to complete.
Equities declined on Tuesday, ending a three-day rally that followed a massive correction over less than four weeks and indicating that the market remains fragile and prone to volatility.
In the cool early morning of Sept 2, I will walk to a quiet park near my home in Beijing. As the sky lightens and the sun slowly rises, I will stand silently among the trees and bow my head in solemn thanks to my parents' generation, including Chinese, who helped defeat Japan in World War II.
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