PLA ship visits Hawaii

The high-seas training ship Zheng He of the People's Liberation Army Navy has arrived in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a four-day training exchange and goodwill visit.

Love and loss in war and peace

Li Duoli waited more than six decades to pose a question to a girl he had known, and secretly adored, as a lovelorn adolescent in the former Soviet Union.

Valuable tree limb cut, stolen from botanical garden

The garden - a magnet for tourists, and botany researchers and enthusiasts - had never before been the target of wood poachers, authorities said.

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An elderly couple received many admiring looks when they held a grand banquet to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary with four generations of their family in a Changchun restaurant on Sunday.

All-out effort underway to lift 70m out of poverty

China will work hard to lift about 70 million people in rural areas out of poverty by the end of 2020, a senior official from the government's top task force on eliminating poverty said on Monday.

To help children, people asked to go without food

The China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation is calling on people to go without food for 24 hours to experience hunger and assist starving children.

Capital to provide extra services, including Wi-Fi, in public toilets

Beijing will provide extra services in 14,000 public toilets by providing Wi-Fi connections, automatic teller machines and charging facilities for electric vehicles. If the move proves to be successful, it may be promoted nationwide.

Beijing tech hub to shift focus from digital products to startups

Zhongguancun, a nationally renowned technology hub in Beijing, will transform its development model from an electronics-dominated to an innovation-oriented economy by focusing on serving startups amid a recession in the electronics trade, local authorities announced.

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Smuggling ring busted by police

A three-month police investigation has led to the seizure of a large haul of endangered wildlife parts and the disruption of an international smuggling ring, the Beijing Forest Police Bureau announced on Monday.

Air pollution still public's top concern

Almost 78 percent of complaints the public made to the national environmental watchdog on its hotline in the first half of this year was about air pollution.

The right connections will no longer protect students

As the People's Liberation Army has had some of the world's top weapons, it is also pursuing top talent and has begun to raise the threshold for professionals, PLA Daily reported.