China's top information office has held a record number of news conferences this year on key issues that have drawn worldwide attention. In 2016, it will be even more open and release valuable information on changes and development in China, the head of the information office said.
Beijing said on Thursday that it will impose sanctions on companies involved in US arms deal with Taiwan and warned that warming China-US military ties will "inevitably be affected", in response to the first such major arms agreement in more than four years.
The Chinese embassy in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has used the term "sheer fiction" in dismissing recent media reports that said more than 100 Chinese nationals were arrested by Pyongyang for alleged espionage.
The Wi-Fi icon appears almost everywherein bars, on buses and buildingsin this river town in Zhejiang province. Nearly all its population of 59,000 can connect to the Internet simultaneously through 4G networks.
A letter from Mao Zedong appealing to the leader of the British Labour Party in 1937 for help against Japanese invaders has sold for 605,000 pounds ($908,000) at auction in London.
China's marine courts should improve their service and build up a reputation, as the number of marine disputes heard in the country has surged in recent years, according to the head of the top court.
Construction of two nuclear projects and one hydropower station has been approved by the government as China pushes ahead with clean energy development amid sluggish economic growth.
Of the five top-grossing films in China this year, four of them are Hollywood productions, led by Furious 7. This seems to indicate that there will be a phalanx of flashy, explosion-filled action films marching across the Pacific like giant kaiju (Japanese for "strange beasts") in the next few years at least.
Item from Dec 17, 1988, in China Daily: A new teahouse, featuring turn-of-the-century decor reminiscent of the Teahouse establishment made famous by playwright Lao She, opened for business on Thursday in Qianmen, one of the busiest shopping districts in Beijing.
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