Item from Oct 17, 1988, in China Daily: Beijing has launched a campaign to control venereal diseases by setting up several prevention and treatment centers. Special research groups have also been formed in some districts.
Jing Haipeng to enter orbit for record third time on Shenzhou XI mission
Jing Haipeng was born in October 1966 in Yuncheng, Shanxi province. He joined the People's Liberation Army Air Force in June 1985 and became a Party member in September 1987. He had 1,200 hours of flight time when he became one of China's first astronauts in 1998. He was selected as one of six trainees for the Shenzhou VI mission in 2005 and for the prime crew on Shenzhou VII in 2008. He was commander of Shenzhou IX in 2012, the first mission to dock with the Tiangong I space laboratory.
After being launched into orbit on Sept 15, the scientific applications of the Tiangong II space laboratory have been tested and have returned data. Here are some of the results:
Experts from China and abroad have refuted claims made by the Falungong cult that the nation harvests organs from its practitioners.
China agreed to provide loans to Bangladesh for projects including roads, bridges, tunnels and power plants on Friday during President Xi Jinping's historic visit to the country.
Thirteen years after its first, failed attempt to place a rover on Mars, Europe will reach a crucial stage on Sunday in a fresh quest to scour the red planet for signs of life, this time with Russia.
The government will expand a pilot program to diversify vehicle import channels to boost domestic consumption and will improve the service sector, the State Council decided on Friday at an executive meeting.
The news that Bob Dylan won this year's Nobel Prize in literature came as a surprise to many Chinese, who overwhelmingly showed sympathy for Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
Most people in Central and Eastern European countries covered by the Belt and Road Initiative hold a positive outlook toward China's economic growth, believing the momentum will continue for the next 10 years, according to a survey released on Friday.
In the photo from June 1988, a few harvesters are seen in Tianshui in Northwest China's Gansu province, waiting to find seasonal employment. They were part of China's first wave of migrant workers, going across provincial borders to Shaanxi province and the Ningxia Hui autonomous region to reap wheat for others every year.
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