China's booming economy and rising population are causing a decline in the quality of the water in the nation's lakes. Pollution caused by eutrophication, a process that starves the water of oxygen, is one of the most pressing issues for the nation's environmentalists.
Darmin Bieyishan, one of the most popular snowboarders at the 13th National Winter Games, was thrilled to compete in the half-pipe before a hometown crowd in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The audience for the first Games hosted outside Northeast China returned the feeling.
Inconsistencies in the way a punctuation mark is used in official documents is increasingly hampering the efforts of some members of China's ethnic groups as they struggle to engage with e-commerce and mobile banking systems.
The rise in China's new home prices slowed in January, as sales faltered on reduced housing supplies before the Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb 8.
Husi Food Co's Shanghai and Hebei branches, which were found to have supplied products with substandard meat to fast food chains, were fined 1.2 million yuan ($182,000) each by a Shanghai court on Monday.
China's official factory gauge signaled a record sixth straight month of deterioration, raising the stakes for policymakers struggling to prop up the economy amid a second bear market in stocks since June and a currency at a five-year low.
Flight transfers to and from the Chinese mainland through Taiwan were launched on Monday in Nangchang, Kunming and Chongqing, said the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits.
In the popular Harry Potter series, the most advanced dark magic, "petrification", is the process of turning people into stone.
As the People's Liberation Army upgrades its navy, commissioning dozens of new ships under a watchful global eye, a less noticed force, China's maritime militia, is also improving its operational capability.
Five new police units will be formed in Southwest China's Yunnan province to combat fraudsters, con artists and other criminals targeting tourists.
Hainan province, with its warm climate, tropical forests and natural beauty, aims to remake itself as a global tourism destination by the end of the decade.
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