Tours offer up culture firsthand

Fourteen-year-old Li Yuxuan became fascinated with Africa and Africans after spending five days with foreign students on a summer study tour in Beijing.

HK students impressed in Mainland visit

Hong Kong youth were awed by the mainland's development after joining a visit to Zhejiang province - one of the country's key innovation centers - with the largest and youngest ever six-day tour for a high-tech and culture feast, which concluded on Friday.

Porcelain house to go under auction

A landmark property heavily decorated with pieces of porcelain in central Tianjin will be put up for auction on Tuesday after its owner defaulted on loan payments.

Ex-Liaoning official sentenced to life in jail for corruption, bribery

Wang Min, a former provincial-level official of Northeast China's Liaoning province and a senior national legislator, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for corruption, taking bribes and negligence of duty.

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Team pulls its paper on gene editing

A biological research team from China said on Thursday it has withdrawn a controversial paper on a new gene-editing technique and will carry out further research at a third-party laboratory.

High-speed rail opens in Inner Mongolia

The first high-speed railway in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region was opened on Thursday.

China, Kazakhstan feel port's benefits

The logistics terminal in Jiangsu province's Lianyungang Port, built by China and Kazakhstan, has served as an important platform to improve economic cooperation, according to officials.

Prison dramas enlighten convicts

SHIJIAZHUANG - Once, twice, three times, Xu Dongguang practices his lines until he gets them just right. He want this performance to hit home.

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Platforms asked to verify job postings

Experts called for job recruitment websites to strengthen their verification of information after a graduate student apparently received an offer from scammers posing as recruiters for a Beijing-based company.

Ease up on tutoring, ministry tells parents

Schools should reduce the workload of primary and middle school students during the summer vacation, and parents should not sign up children for too many tutorial classes, the Ministry of Education said on Wednesday.