Chinese stocks plunged to their lowest level in 13 months on Tuesday.
Trouble in mind, not because I'm blue, but because I'm troubled by the expectation this Beijing blue we've been enjoying will soon disappear. This unwelcome anticipation that the sun ain't gonna be shining through my windows sometime soon means I've something of a worried mind that I'm trying to put aside.
Item from Jan 27, 1984, in China Daily: Beijing boys gaze in delight at the variety of fireworks on display at the open market of Huashi, or flower fair, in Chongwenmen district. Some 600 million firecrackers of 150 different styles will be sold in Beijing for Spring Festival.
Many people agree that fireworks should be banned during the coming Spring Festival to help ease air pollution.
Plans for party-to-party visit from Beijing to Laos and to Vietnam attracted great attention on Tuesday before their start as some experts say they reinforce an expected continuing stability for China's ties with the neighbors after their political reshuffles.
Party-to-party exchanges still carry weight and promote state-to-state relations, said Ruan Zongze, vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies.
China has agreed to strengthen anti-terrorism work with Afghanistan, a war-torn country whose stability is linked to that of western China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
With US Secretary of State John Kerry set to arrive in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a news briefing in the capital on Tuesday that US officials must "play a constructive role ... instead of pointing fingers at others".
Wang Bao'an, director of the National Bureau of Statistics, was placed under investigation on Tuesday afternoon, China's top anti-corruption authority announced.
This year will be more challenging than 2015, and the government will need to work together with non-Communist parties and associations for new ideas to lead the change, Premier Li Keqiang said while meeting with some 10 representatives of non-Communist parties during a symposium in Beijing on Monday morning.
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