China unveiled plans on Wednesday to upgrade its Internet infrastructure and the development of its logistics industry in rural areas, part of the government's efforts to encourage online spending among rural residents.
Possibly every generation believes it lives in the time of greatest change, as new technologies are introduced and become increasingly accessible and societal transformations produce generation gaps. But there might be more validity in saying that today than most times in the past.
Item from Oct 15, 1997, in China Daily: Yu Faqin, 10, recovers after the successful transplant of part of her father's liver.
Recent Chinese comedy films have been driving the country's box-office successes.
China has vowed to provide more assistance to refugees flooding into Europe from war-torn countries in the Middle East.
A former Japanese prime minister called on Tokyo to display a more humble attitude toward the UN cultural body's decision to incorporate Chinese documents on the Nanjing Massacre into the Memory of the World Register.
Authorities from the mainland and Taiwan have yet to reach a consensus on an agreement on allowing air passengers from the mainland to transfer in Taiwan, after a fourth meeting between senior leaders from both sides on Wednesday.
The bribery trial of another high-ranking security official, a former aide to ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang, opened on Wednesday, the latest in a series of graft trials and sentencings ahead of a key Communist Party of China meeting this month.
China's top leaders have broken with tradition by holding a study session to discuss global governance.
The Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash that killed 298 people in July last year was caused by a Buk missile system, the Dutch Safety Board concluded in one of its final reports on Tuesday.
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