Item from Dec 2, 1996, in China Daily: Workers lower a McDonald's fast-food outlet flag yesterday in front of the restaurant on Wangfujing Street in Beijing.
Many Chinese grandparents take an active role in raising their grandchildren.
Beijing has been suffering this year's most severe smog since Friday, with pollution readings off the charts that have forced schools to close and caused traffic chaos.
Some of the Chinese capital's 22.5 million residents have turned to humor to cope with persistent toxic air that once again soared above hazardous levels on Tuesday.
A performance artist has just finished a 100-day project to collect smog in Beijing with a special vacuum cleaner.
China's manufacturing conditions slipped to the weakest level in more than three years as sluggishness in the nation's old growth drivers added to risks facing the government's growth target.
What really matters is whether central banks and sovereign wealth funds start to see the RMB as a viable store of liquidity and value to rival the US dollar. Such a shift seems unlikely while doubts persist over China's prospects for a smooth and orderly rebalancing, and while China retains widespread capital controls.
A major emergency rescue center in Beijing rejected accusations on Monday from a journalist who said deliberate malpractice at the center nearly cost him his life.
Twenty-one foreign HIV/AIDS carriers, two women and 19 men, are in regular contact with the China Rainbow support group based in Beijing, the head of the nongovernmental organization said.
BRICS nations are an important force in international relations and active builders of economic growth, unity, cooperation and joint development, said Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Tuesday.
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