The government has issued a set of new policies to urge traditional retailers to strengthen their links with e-commerce sites, logistics companies, and finance and telecommunications operators, as online shopping sites have become a growing force in China's retail sector.
Departments and ministries under the State Council, China's Cabinet, have responded to a wide range of public concerns during the past week, including heavy pollution in northern China and how local governments responded to it, the regulation of e-commerce giants' promotions during the Nov 11 online shopping gala, last year's use of social insurance funds, and a recently uncovered cross-border telecom scam.
CNS Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, is currently serving as a training ship for the next generation of officers who will serve on the country's aircraft carriers. The role is paramount because the defense ministry confirmed that construction of a second carrier had neared completion on Oct 27, as per schedule.
Cheng Haixia is a second class petty officer aboard the CNS Liaoning. He is also morale officer, so in his free time, the 40-year-old veteran regularly checks the ship's internal message board to help solve the problems new recruits often experience.
Being a service wife now is different than before. My husband and I were on our honeymoon and we had just taken our wedding photos when he was called away unexpectedly to join a mission.
As cold winds rustle through the thousands of hectares of reeds around Luhu Lake in Yiyang, Hunan province, a group of migrant workers work their way through the marshes armed with sickles.
Why is "Shared Development" the fifth and final of the Five Major Development Concepts - President Xi Jinping's guiding strategy to transform China? After all, China cannot realize its overarching goal of becoming a "moderately prosperous society" until poverty is eliminated and economic and social imbalances are reduced. Nowhere is this need more acute than in healthcare, a focus of reform.
About four months ago, Chinese women expressed their happiness at the approval of a long-awaited vaccine which protects against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus, better known as HPV.
The 150th birthday of Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution and founder of Kuomintang, will be celebrated on Saturday and could open a window of opportunity for the two sides of the Taiwan Straits to strengthen their cultural bond.
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