With great verve and passion, Chinese people celebrated Lantern Festival in traditional and trendy ways, despite the gloom of smog and the economic slowdown.
China released a guideline on urban planning on Sunday in a bid to tackle the problems associated with increasing urbanization and the explosion of city sizes.
Reform of the urban housing system will see governments satisfy the basic living needs of disadvantaged groups, while the market will meet the demand of other residents. By 2020, the transformation and renovation of existing shantytowns, urban villages and dilapidated houses in cities will be complete.
Finding suitable employment could prove difficult for China's college graduates this summer as a record 7.7 million leave higher education and enter the country's job market amid a slowing economy.
There was a spike in the number of people seeking new jobs during the Spring Festival holiday, well ahead of the traditional peak that usually occurs after Lantern Festival.
China's netizens have been urged to avoid damaging the credibility of cyberspace after a story that went viral over the Spring Festival holiday turned out to be fabricated.
China's first moon lander, Chang'e-3, awakened automatically on Thursday and entered its 28th lunar day after "sleeping" during the lunar night, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense announced on Friday.
Editor's Note: Many policy changes may be in the cards in 2016, a challenging time for reform in China and the first year of a new five-year plan for the nation's social and economic progress. China Daily presents some of the latest changes and political considerations.
As China prepares a fresh round of tax cuts, economists are airing different views on how much the society is, or should be, paying to the government.
Inland provinces and autonomous regions are allocating a growing proportion of their fiscal revenue toward improving their chances of being selected as a free trade zone.
Tao Xingyue, 12, and Tao Junshen, 10, used to dread the end of the Chinese New Year holiday when their parents returned to their jobs in distant cities, leaving the youngsters at home.
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