Anybody who lives in northern and central China must have terrible memories of the heavy smog that descended on the major cities there. The Ministry of Environmental Protection warned a total of 23 cities, including Beijing municipality, to issue red alerts on air pollution. Six of those cities are in Henan province.
1. China's Central Economic Work Conference said the country will continue to push supply-side structural reform in 2017. How do you assess China's achievement in that aspect so far? What are the most urgent tasks that China must carry out this year in order to push forward its structural reform?
Donald Trump has often ridiculed global warming and promised to withdraw the United States from the global accord signed in Paris in 2015. Yet despite the change of political weather in Washington, the captains of business and finance gathered in Davos this week will spend a lot of time talking about climate change - and how to make money from it.
From the rivers criss-crossing Eastern Europe to the Mediterranean ports of Greece and France, everyone is hunting for energy supplies.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will target a clean divorce from the EU when she sets out her Brexit plans in a major speech this week, newspapers reported on Sunday.
A judicial investigation into diesel emissions testing in France could widen beyond Renault after tests showed other carmakers had exceeded the authorized levels, the French environment minister said on Sunday, without elaborating.
The chairman of Codelco, the world's largest copper company, vowed that his company won't be pressured into changing policies by an explosion on Friday at his home in Santiago that left him with minor injuries.
More than 100 countries and international organizations have expressed their willingness to be part of the Belt and Road Initiative (the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road), and China has signed various forms of cooperation agreements with more than 40 countries along the routes since President Xi Jinping proposed the initiative in 2013.
A boy in East China's Zhejiang province accidentally became an online sensation after his photograph went viral recently. The photo, taken by his kindergarten teacher, shows him sitting at a table, his back to the camera at a slight angle, with a basin containing a big dead carp in front of him. The boy is flanked by five other children carefully observing goldfish in little fish bowls.
The site had been open from Nov 1, 2016 and to Jan 10, and all women were welcome to send their resumes. On Feb 2, the woman that passes the final selection test by the male suitor and his parents, if any, will sign a pre-drafted contract. The woman and the man will then officially start their "love affair". On Oct 8, they will get married. On Feb 19, 2018, they will hold a wedding ceremony.
We used to have a saying in the Anglosphere during the Cold War 1970s that optimists learned Russian while pessimists learned Chinese. It was a knowing, if flippant, expression of a contrary view that the Soviet Union was not the West's biggest challenger. Ultimately China would re-emerge as the dominant world power.
The question software engineer Wang Jing is asked most frequently focuses not on how a person learns to write code, but how a woman learns to write code.
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