There are now 780 so-called "Taobao villages" in China, a 268 percent increase over the past year, according to the latest research.
After pouring billions of dollars into a wide cross section of industries, e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has developed a hunger for online food delivery services.
Shaanxi provincial officials have hit another significant milestone in their overseas economic development plans linked to the Belt and Road Initiative, after approval was given to the new Xixian Bonded Logistics Center.
The severity of the hazardous smog that has forced Beijing to close schools twice so far this month should justify local education authorities heeding the calls of parents for air purifiers and other facilities to be installed in classrooms.
Since it is now the second-largest economy in the world, China accepts that it should pay a bigger UN membership fee and bear a greater share of the international body's peacekeeping costs.
AS TAIWAN is to hold debates among local leadership candidates for the region, Terry Gou, chairman of the Taiwan multinational Hon Hai/Foxconn Technology Group, openly called for the candidates to talk clearly about the issues instead of trying to play on voters' emotions. Haiwainet.cn asks whether that will work:
GUANGZHOU, capital of South China's Guangdong province, is reportedly reviewing the plan to build 15 new subway lines prior to 2030 at a cost nearly 500 billion yuan ($77 billion).
A CAR CARRYING a couple and three children crashed into a school in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in East China. The driver, who had no license, has been detained on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs as well.
The year 2015 will be of special importance to China in terms of population policy because it has seen a milestone revision to the family planning policy.
From June 1 it has begun to feel like public health might be starting to win out in the battle against tobacco in Beijing.
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