Every weekday morning, 60-year-old Zu Zhide roasts raw coffee beans, grinds them, sniffs, brews and then slurps, loudly.
Thousands of Chinese people have visited the memorial dedicated to the Chinese "comfort women" of World War II, the first of its kind on the Chinese mainland opened to the public earlier this month in Nanjing.
Niamh Cunningham is an artist and curator working in Beijing.
The amount of new loans in China accelerated less than expected in November, the People's Bank of China reported on Friday, lending only weak support for an economic rebound.
China has set a two-year deadline for loss-making State-owned enterprises to improve their performance, with firms that suffer losses for three straight years liable to be shut down.
Beijing will double the number of air-quality monitoring stations and mobilize more monitoring vehicles to facilitate forecasts and promote effective smog control, the capital's deputy mayor said on Thursday.
Beijing may introduce a new system to allow nonresidents to get a household registration, or hukou, through gaining enough credit points, according to a draft regulation by the Legal Affairs Office of the Beijing Municipal Government.
Beijing has set a population cap of 2 million for the high-profile Tongzhou district, its municipal subsidiary administrative center, to ensure the center's healthy growth, the capital's deputy mayor said on Thursday.
"The large number of migrant workers in the city has already overwhelmed the city's capacity. I cannot imagine the city expanding further to nearby Hebei province."
Wage-earners who live with their parents in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, may soon pay lower taxes to help ease the burden of elder care.
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