Item from Nov 16, 1992, in China Daily: Taiwan stuntman Ko Sau-leung flies over the Great Wall on his motorcycle yesterday morning at the Jinshan Mountain Ridge Section. Ko is the first to make the dramatic jump, staking a claim to be mentioned in the Guinness Book of World Records. The stunt biker leaped over the ridge's beacon tower from a 100-meter ramp and landed successfully on the opposite side on another ramp of 50 meters. He was about 50 meters in the air.
Many parents in China prefer foreign children's books to domestic ones.
Chinese archaeologists claimed on Saturday to have unearthed a portrait of Confucius from a tomb that is at least 2,000 years old.
Central banks around the world will likely hold more assets in Chinese currency in the future to diversify their foreign exchange reserves, economists said.
The death toll from an East China landslide has risen to 23, with 14 people still missing, China News Service said on Sunday.
China's national observatory lifted a yellow warning for smog on Sunday, as cold air will disperse lingering air pollution in North China in the next few days.
A senior official at the National Health and Family Planning Commission hinted that China's universal two-child policy could come into force as early as Jan 1, if all goes as expected.
Chinese legal specialists are concerned that lawmakers have not yet added an advisory draft to the agenda of the next National People's Congress in April that, if adopted, would regulate more administrative behaviors of government.
The misconduct hearing of the former chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been delayed for five weeks.
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