A hotline between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan was officially launched on Wednesday when chiefs of cross-Straits affairs from both sides used it for the first time to speak to each other.
Sudden and extreme weather conditions capsized a Yangtze River cruiser and left 442 people dead, a central government investigation has found.
A 40 percent drop in PM2.5 by 2020 from the average level in 2013 has been targeted for the heavily polluted Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster.
A good number of Xiaomi smartphones were unwrapped as presents over the Christmas period.
China will continue its clean governance and anti-corruption campaign next year and won't allow any opportunity for officials to slip back into undesirable work styles, senior leaders agreed on Wednesday.
The "comfort women" are mostly in their 90s now, but it is not their increasing frailty that led to this week's "agreement" between Seoul and Tokyo.
Item from Dec 31, 1990, in China Daily: The big day ... A couple have their wedding photos taken in the Xianbai Photographic Art Studio in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.
The work habits of many urban residents have evolved in recent years, shedding light on their changing priorities, according to the latest industry reports.
Hu Qingming, a Beijing resident whose daughter is a primary school pupil in the capital, collected 5,000 yuan ($770) with other parents to buy an air filter for their children's classroom.
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