Slower growth in China's value-added industrial output in 2015 has to do with a continued slowdown in traditional heavy sectors, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday.
A boom year for China's property market has sent annual property sales, measured by value, to a record high - a peak that may not be surpassed anytime soon, according to some analysts.
Defined as people between 16 to 60, the working-age population fell by a record 4.87 million to 911 million, sharper than 2014's fall of 3.71 million.
"Supply-side reform" has been a buzz-phrase since early November, when President Xi Jinping mentioned it at a top economic meeting. Overnight, nearly everybody in Beijing's policy circles began talking about it, as if the phrase had magical powers.
Three Chinese students attending a high school in southern California will serve time behind bars for kidnapping and assaulting a female classmate in a high-profile bullying case.
Editor's note: How to ensure food security will be a key issue for the authorities during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period.
Although China has repeatedly emphasized that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a multilateral agency to meet Asia's development needs, the international community remains worried that it is setting low-level financing rules.
Chinese policymakers have not only integrated the various dimensions of geopolitics, but also rightly paid great attention to the rapidly evolving domain of cyber-politics. And by almost exclusively focusing on what it perceives as the limitations and imperfections of the Internet in China, the West has not yet fully realized the significance of the Chinese digital transformation. At the intersection of China's global projection and of its quest for innovation, digital China is one of the most significant stories of our time.
The Chinese authorities need to address three fundamental economic and governance issues this year.
Her eyes glued to the screen of her smartphone, a 28-year-old accidentally fell into a river in Wenzhou, Southeast China's Zhejiang province, and drowned on Dec 29. No one was around at that time.
I recently had the opportunity to interact with students and faculty of Peking University, which I first visited way back in 1982. At that time, there were barely a dozen Indian students in China; today, some 14,000 Indians are studying here.
Su Zhou: Better protection for children and wildlife
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