The government has punished 1,148 officials for laziness and poor performance following an internal probe last year.
It is said that the average modern woman consumes more than 3 kilograms of lipstick in her lifetime.
Five Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been fined a combined total of 4 million yuan ($608,000) for acting in collusion to fix the price of a common medication.
Only by telling the rich, complex stories of its people can China and the Chinese media help foreigners understand this confident, capable nation, Guo Wei - min, deputy director of the country's State Council Information Office, said in a speech on Thursday.
Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, embraced a single sister in 1981, but in the years that followed, it sprouted a large clan, adding 28 more. Its sister city relationships now include Haifa, Israel, a center of scientific research, and Horsens, Denmark.
The bitter cold snap that swept the nation in recent days caught many orange growers at midharvest in one of China's major fruit production areas, where more than 50 farmers faced the possibility of total crop failure.
Residents of some of China's biggest cities expecting parcels over the weeklong Spring Festival holiday may be surprised to see who one retail giant has hired to help out.
From dirty laundry to tainted wells, the strain on China's water resources is being felt nationwide after years of industrialization have left the country high and dry.
The Nanming River, which was heavily polluted just four years ago, will embrace a new lease on life next year when it becomes a tourism hot spot, indicating the success of long-running efforts to control water pollution, according to officials and experts.
A city maintenance worker's hands - swollen, scarred, bruised and bandaged - reflect the rush to repair the thousands of water meters and pipes that broke during a cold snap that brought the lowest temperatures in three decades to Shanghai.
A man in Chongqing municipality said he intends to sue his wife and daughter after they failed to visit him when he was hospitalized for a stroke and they did not pay his medical bills.
Jilin province is planning a series of measures to protect endangered Siberian tigers and Amur leopards, some of which inhabit territory along China's border with Russia, according to a provincial forestry official.
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