Dog lovers' rescue attempts spark mixed reaction

The actions of dog lovers who used their cars to stop a truck on an expressway that was carrying 320 dogs has sparked heated public debate.

Students take safer route for new year

Two days before the start of the weeklong Yi lunar new year holiday, students from a remote village in Sichuan province returned home on Saturday.

Daimler to cooperate over employee's parking lot dispute

Daimler Trucks and Buses (China) Ltd said the company will "take all necessary measures" after Chinese authorities concluded an investigation into one of its employees who is alleged to have insulted a Chinese in a car parking dispute in Beijing.

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Cities urged to make health a top priority

More than 1,000 participants endorsed a declaration highlighting government responsibility in health promotion, which was released on Monday, the opening day of a global health conference in Shanghai.

Research focused on tackling future rise in dementia cases

On a Saturday morning in October, Zhang Zhenxin, a professor specializing in dementia at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, talked with a 61-year-old retiree at a community in a suburb of Beijing.

Illness often misdiagnosed in elderly

Only one in five dementia patients in China are correctly diagnosed, according to the China Association for Alzheimer's disease.

What they say

"Health serves as the foundation of personal happiness and the cornerstone of social progress. Economic and social development can only be sustainable when it regards the promotion of people's health as its core. Healthy China 2030, in its essence, represents the health of 1.3 billion Chinese people."

Astrophysics And Aesthetics

Astrophysicist Zhang Shuangnan likes traditional Chinese deep-fried dough sticks and Western coffee for breakfast before he gets down to work, studying why black holes get "angry."

Space food: Pie in the sky or a taste of the future?

In the science fiction movie The Martian, the astronaut stranded on the Red Planet lives for more than 500 days on potatoes he has grown while awaiting rescue.

Plan boosts poverty alleviation efforts

The government has decided to further target poverty alleviation by developing appropriate and suitable industries to boost economic growth and raise income in the least-developed areas.

State targets issue of missing children

Departments and ministries under the State Council have responded to a number of public concerns in the past week, including setting up a missing children information platform, protection of consumers' rights, execution of judicial judgments, non-payment of migrant workers' wages, public recruitment in impoverished and remote areas and rural toilet renovation.