App designed to help mentally ill

A mobile phone application has been launched catering to the needs of people with mental disorders.

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Students breathe easy in playground bubbles

More schools are putting up fabric domes over their campuses to provide clean air for students - an increasingly popular trend in northern China, which is frequently engulfed by smog.

Land with lost soil continues to decline

Areas of desertification and sandification - land on which soil has been lost - have continued to decline, the State Forestry Administration said on Tuesday.

Standards to help clean up chaotic market for air purifiers

A new national standard for air purifiers will help guide the booming market for the devices, which currently lacks supervision, experts said.

Courts call for more vigilance against pollution

Environmental organizations and prosecuting authorities have been called upon to improve their role in dealing with environment-related cases, as the number of disputes has increased rapidly, an official of China's top court said.

Drones to monitor movement of PM2.5

Researchers in Shanghai have developed a method to use unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor the concentration of PM2.5 at high attitudes in the Yangtze River Delta.

Personnel to be trained for Winter Games

Hebei province, which will co-host the 2022 Winter Olympics, plans to develop 66,000 athletes, instructors, judges and other personnel over the next seven years to provide athletic talent and staff for the games.

Tracking the mules across the border

First Person | Zhou Maijun

Drug hotspot vows to clean up its act

In September, at the start of the fall semester, Hua Yong, deputy principal of Xichang No 9 Primary School, was faced with one of the most difficult situations of his teaching career.

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Liaoning

Drug production network busted

Police in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, have identified "a large number" of suspected drug users at dozens of universities nationwide and arrested 23 drug producers and online drug dealers they said were involved in a trafficking network.