A special Philippine envoy who is in Hong Kong to test the waters of bilateral ties suggested on Tuesday that Manila and Beijing cooperate on sectors of common interest to rekindle their relationship, which was soured by maritime disputes.
Inspired by golden results at the Olympics, swimming is gaining momentum in China as a mainstream competitive sport as well as a popular exercise appealing to the public.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan looked to rebuild ties as they met on Tuesday for the first time since Ankara downed one of Moscow's warplanes in November.
Hong Xinyu, a 20-year-old college student from East China, said her dream is to see more Chinese women succeed in their ambition to be entrepreneurs.
China's military is likely to deploy the Type-96B tank as the pillar of its tank fleet, replacing most of its old models, observers said.
China's exports rose by 2.9 percent year-on-year in July, while imports fell by 5.7 percent, leading to a monthly trade surplus of 342.8 billion yuan ($51.45 billion), figures released by the General Administration of Customs showed on Monday.
The swimming rivalry between China and Australia has escalated beyond the pool, with Australian swimmer Mack Horton's comments about Chinese rival Sun Yang triggering heated confrontations.
China will open a laboratory in Hainan province in November that will focus on the use of marine resources in the South China Sea, a provincial official said.
Chinese legend has it that star-crossed lovers Zhinu and Niulang, banished to opposite sides of the Milky Way, are only reunited once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh moon, when a flock of magpies forms a bridge across the "silver river."
Thirty tourists from the Chinese mainland were injured on Monday when a tour bus crashed into a building in Macao, authorities in the special administrative region said.
China won its first gold medal at the Rio Summer Olympics on Sunday when Zhang Mengxue was successful in the women's 10m air pistol event.
Chinese space scientists are developing a cutting-edge aerospace vehicle that, if successful, will enable the public to make space journeys.
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