The central government is to further relax regulations covering the transfer of scientific and technological research achievements from national research institutions to enterprises.
China said on Wednesday its government and people would remember the contribution made by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former United Nations secretary-general whose death was announced a day earlier.
China urged Australia on Wednesday to be cautious over defense cooperation with Japan and to take the feelings of Asian countries into account when considering the purchase of Japanese submarines.
Chinese scientists are proposing a space gravitational wave detection project that could either be a part of the European Space Agency's eLISA project or a parallel project.
After seven suicides in two years, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking for their own solutions to prevent more deaths.
Before going back to her hometown for the Spring Festival holiday, Dong Jinxian, a 55-year-old Beijing resident, found it difficult to arrange for a temporary home for her feathered friends - two precious parrots.
Stocks of mobile payment related companies soared on Tuesday over speculation that Apple Inc will introduce its cash-free smartphone payment service to China this week.
US President Barack Obama has voiced an ambition to see all Asia-Pacific nations "play by the same rules", and observers said this indicated Washington's latest renewal of its plan to meddle in regional maritime problems.
In recent Spring Festivals, I've been a road warrior alternately visiting my parents and parents-in-law who live thousands of kilometers apart.
Item from Feb 17, 1983, in China Daily: Construction of China's first nuclear power station is in full swing in East China's Zhejiang province. With a capacity of 300,000 kilowatts, it has been designed entirely by Chinese engineers.
Many people who visited hometowns during Spring Festival found dramatic changes in rural areas.