China will probably introduce an overall two-child policy in one or two years, senior demographers expect, as the top population authority said the government would keep fine-tuning birth rules to ensure a sustainable and balanced population growth.
Giant pandas are the new couch potatoes of the animal world and just as sluggish as slow-moving sloths, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science.
No matter how times change, the love of beautiful things never dims. Flowers have always been associated with love and romance. From vendors who hawked fresh blooms in a street of Chengdu, Sichuan province, in the 1986 photo, to a florist recommending silk blossoms on Valentine's Day in her shop in Xuchang, Henan province, in the 2014 photo, flowers have always been popular. Roses and chrysanthemums were popular in the 1980s, but today an increasing number of exotic varieties are found in the vases of ordinary Chinese families.
People from other countries who love peace and justice offered invaluable support to the Chinese people during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
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The BRICS group of five major emerging economies vowed to forge a closer economic partnership on Thursday by adopting a milestone blueprint for cooperation as they concluded an annual summit amid slowing growth in developed and emerging markets.
Conditions covering the leasing of giant pandas to zoos by research centers are to be tightened after a number of the animals died because they were not looked after properly.
Millions of commuters jammed buses, rented bicycles or simply walked for miles on Thursday as a 24-hour strike closed the British capital's subway system and threw public transportation into chaos.
The plunging equities market showed sign of stabilizing on Thursday as a series of government initiatives designed to halt the panic sell-off starting last week appeared to be having an effect.
Two answers might spring to mind if you were asked to name places where you cannot expect personal space: the examination room in a doctor's office and Beijing.
Item from July 10, 1994, in China Daily: Shanghai Volkswagen, China's largest sedan maker, operates a new service center in downtown Shanghai. The center, capable of repairing 10,000 cars a year, is the 300th center the company has opened across the country.
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