During their regular patrol to monitor birds in autumn, rangers with Naolihe National Nature Reserve in Heilongjiang province recorded a gathering of more than 700 Oriental storks, an endangered water bird.
President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Vietnam on Nov 5 and 6 at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang announced on Thursday.
When most people hear the name Niao Chao, or "Bird's Nest", they immediately think of the National Stadium in Beijing, the site of the 2008 Olympic Games. However, there is another, less-famous Bird's Nest related to China: a 250-meter-high mound, nearly 3,000 meters below the surface of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Lin Meimei finally took her son to watch the cartoon film The Minions recently, after letting him down a number of times.
A 5-kilogram block of ice recently dropped from the sky and punched a hole in the ground on a farm in Songxian county, Henan province.
Chinese scientists have completed an initial conceptual design of a super giant particle collider which will be bigger and more powerful than any particle accelerator on Earth.
A student at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a 120 million-year-old fossil that belonged to an ancestor of the modern long-horned grasshopper.
In Yunyang county, Chongqing, 42,000 students have packed up their textbooks and left over the past decade as the number of schools has declined from 482 to 138.
Shanghai has installed several multifunction street lampposts fitted with touch screens and surveillance cameras that, among other things, will provide free Wi-Fi, area traffic conditions and charging stations for electric vehicles.
Chairwoman of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will pay an official visit to China from Friday to Nov 4 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi, ministry spokesman Lu Kang announced on Wednesday.
Slowing economic growth and shrinking energy consumption mean that meeting the government's ambitious goal for renewable energy consumption will remain a tough challenge as China's energy sector embarks on a restructuring program in the coming five years.
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of special reports to mark achievements in various sectors during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15). The fifth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China concludes on Thursday. Discussion of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) is high on the agenda of the meeting.
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