Credits for emissions to expand

China has already become the second-largest carbon-trading market in the world, and many companies have positive attitudes about the launch of the national market in 2017, a study from the UN development department found.

Eight arrested in multimillion dollar telecom fraud case

Police in Taiwan have broken up a telecom fraud case in which a university professor on the mainland was scammed out of around 18 million yuan ($2.6 million), according to a report from China News Service.

Industrial growth targets can be met

China is confident of realizing its 6 percent annual growth target for industrial output in 2017 as the growth momentum of the industrial sector is improving, a top official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday.

Top court actions helped villager

A villager who was penalized for illegally purchasing corn was pardoned on Friday at a court in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

IN BRIEF (Page 4)

SPP: Hospitals broke procedure

Prosecuting departments in East China's Zhejiang and Shandong provinces have conducted a thorough investigation into two recent hospital malpractices that led to patients being infected by HIV and hepatitis B.

Courts urged to better serve ethnic people

China's top court said on Thursday that it will take a series of measures this year to educate more ethnic judicial talent in order to solve legal disputes in regions inhabited by ethnic groups more efficiently.

TCM product naming regulations could cost manufacturers billions

Thousands of traditional Chinese medicine products face having their names changed due to a draft regulation issued last month by the China Food and Drug Administration, with the deadline for submissions on the guideline falling on Wednesday.

War against poverty fought in farmlands

Rather than having an office on campus, Professor Li Bingzhi's classroom is on a stretch of farmland.

Zoo denies viral video reveals abused tiger

A private zoo on Thursday dismissed allegations that a tiger shown in a video that went viral was abused.

IN BRIEF (Page 4)

Pakistan to export seafood to Xinjiang via land

Pakistan is to start exporting seafood to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region using a land route that China will use to ship oil and natural gas from the Middle East.