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Retired teacher helps addicts kick the habit

[2016-01-04 07:55]

Where there is love, nothing is impossible, according to a 71-year-old retired teacher who has helped more than 200 addicts quit drugs, guiding them out of their dependence through the care she provides in the Guizhou provincial capital.

3-child parents to face barriers

[2016-01-04 07:55]

As China scrapped its one-child policy, the existing social tracking system - a sort of credit rating for parents - was expanded in southern Guangdong province to help deter a third baby.

Zhejiang providing coverage for rare diseases

[2016-01-02 07:45]

Zhejiang has become the first province in China whose medical insurance will cover rare diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Beijing switches to rent model for housing

[2016-01-02 07:45]

Beijing will refrain from building and selling new low-cost residences because of public controversy created when the residences were purchased only to be sold later for profit, a senior official of the city's housing commission said on Thursday.

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[2016-01-02 07:45]

Beijing

Li reiterates principles for development

[2016-01-01 07:34]

Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday urged the importance of structural reform in the strategic development blueprint of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20).

Guizhou on the high road to success

[2016-01-01 07:34]

For 53-year-old TangHua, a farmer in Daozhen county, Guizhou province, Chongqing is a big city on the other side of a mountain near his home.

Special operation nets more than 100 fugitives

[2016-01-01 07:34]

More than 100 fugitives have either been repatriated through legal channels or have returned to China of their own volition as a result of a special operation launched by the Supreme People's Procurator-ate in September 2014.

IN BRIEF (Page 2)

[2016-01-01 07:34]

President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday exchanged New Year greetings with their Russian counterparts.

Xi leads shift to 'supply-side' economics

[2015-12-31 07:57]

Economists called it a "great signal", an "important change" and a "starting point of all innovations".

New high-speed rail circles Hainan

[2015-12-31 07:57]

The western section of a new high-speed railway opened on Wednesday in Hainan province, completing the world's first such railway to circle an island.

8 miners are found alive after collapse

[2015-12-31 07:57]

Eight miners were found to be alive on Wednesday morning, though they have been trapped underground for five days afters a gypsum mine collapsed in Pingyi county, Shandong province, according to the rescue command center.