Slowing economic growth and shrinking energy consumption mean that meeting the government's ambitious goal for renewable energy consumption will remain a tough challenge as China's energy sector embarks on a restructuring program in the coming five years.
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of special reports to mark achievements in various sectors during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15). The fifth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China concludes on Thursday. Discussion of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) is high on the agenda of the meeting.
China's efforts to control air and water pollution could become strong drivers of a sustainable economy, experts said.
The Red Cross Society of China and its parent international federation are discussing how China can increase its contribution on the world stage.
Ding Jinlin has earned more than 200 five-star ratings from her customers since June after registering as a part-time ayi, or housekeeper, through an online tool that helps connect people with service providers.
More than 1.39 million applicants signed up for China's national civil service exam this year, a slight drop of 1 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
China's top anti-graft body on Tuesday exposed five cases concerning irresponsibility in disciplinary issues, calling for lessons to be learned. One of the cases involved Wen Zhongliang, former deputy head of China Foreign Trade Center (Group) affiliated to the Ministry of Commerce. Wen took a laissez faire attitude toward gambling by his staff, wife and service providers of subsidiaries, according to a statement issued by the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
The registered unemployment rate in China's cities stood at 4.05 percent at the end of September, slightly up from 4.04 percent in June, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Tuesday.
Two recent incidents in which Chinese students' international test results have been withheld or canceled have pushed educators to advise those planning to study abroad to hone their language skills instead of just rote learning.
"The language and learning skills of these primary and middle school students have yet to become well developed. To be admitted by good schools, they followed parents' or tutorial classes' arrangements and acted dishonestly."
China has developed a four-legged robot that can relieve soldiers from carrying heavy equipment and large backpacks when they perform duties on rough terrain, said its designer.
China has started its first strategic environmental impact assessment in the three major industrial zones with the most severe pollution, aiming to provide more effective prevention from sources of pollution, the national environmental watchdog said on Tuesday.
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