The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is to hold its annual meetings in June each year, with the first being convened this year in Beijing, according to a Finance Ministry official.
Having witnessed an unprecedented rise in foreign legal disputes, China is expected to see the number continue to rise through the coming 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period, one of the country's top judges told China Daily.
President Xi Jinping made his first visit to the southwestern city of Chongqing on Monday since he took office as China's top leader.
One monkey or two - that was the question.
As an increasing number of couples, many past their reproductive prime, seek to have a second child under China's new two-child policy, challenges exist including poor sperm quality, experts said.
Lyu Xiwen, Beijing's former deputy Party chief and the first high-ranking official placed under investigation in the capital, has been expelled from the Party and removed from her post for serious violations of discipline, authorities said on Tuesday.
Beijing, for good reason, is celebrated as an international city. The people, cultures, food, music and ambience present a splendid mix of all the best the world has to offer.
Item from Jan 6, 1982, in China Daily: The Bohai No 6 offshore oil rig of the China National Petroleum Corporation, which was responsible for drilling the first high-yield oil well in the Bohai Sea.
About 60 percent of Beijing respondents in a recent China Youth Daily poll think they stand a slim chance of getting hukou, permanent resident permits, under a new points-based application system.
When 33-year-old Shi Haiqing answered the phone in the safety center at a coal mine in Taiyuan early on Tuesday, he thought the call might be from one of his colleagues reporting on work safety.