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.
The military prosecuting authority is investigating the former director of the general equipment support department under the PLA's General Logistics Department.
There is no reason to worry about a long-term depreciation of the renminbi, a senior official said on Thursday, after the central bank lowered the daily fixed exchange rate to a four-year low of 6.4236 yuan per US dollar.
Several ancient caldrons have been found in an ancient tomb, confirming the belief that it belonged to a deposed emperor from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24), archaeologists announced on Wednesday.
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