With China seeking to reduce its overcapacity in the coal and steel sectors as part of its push for economic restructuring, some 1.8 million workers will be transferred or laid off according to government figures.
THE GOVERNMENT Work Report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday highlights the need to acknowledge and address the inefficient implementation of certain policies.
ON THE SIDELINES of the current annual session of the National People's Congress, Wang Rulin, Party chief of North China's Shanxi province, revealed that a vice-mayor in the province embezzled more than 640 million yuan ($98 million), which was almost the total revenue of nine poverty-stricken counties last year.
A PRIMARY SCHOOL in Yongfu county, Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, set up a special class last autumn with two elementary schools for the students with the lowest grades.
In early February, as China celebrated the start of the Year of the Monkey, a widely circulated hedge fund newsletter roiled financial markets by predicting a hard landing for the economy, the collapse of the "shadow-banking" system and the devaluation of the yuan.
Our rapidly growing world is facing the greatest resource pressures in history.
China has proposed to increase people's life expectancy by one year by 2020 - from 76.34 in 2015, though women, on average, live longer than men.
Over the past 16 years cross-Straits ties have experienced both bad and good times.
A US strike group comprising the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, destroyers and cruisers recently arrived in the South China Sea to begin a seven-month-long demonstration of military force.
ON WEDNESDAY, the 15-nation UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to impose harsh sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in response to its recent nuclear test and satellite launch.
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