Ministries and State Council departments have responded to a number of public and media concerns over the past week. One that attracted the most attention is the ongoing heavy pollution over Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and nearby provinces, for which Beijing and several other cities have already issued red alerts.
Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of special reports China Daily will publish in the coming weeks focusing on efforts to eradicate poverty and raise living standards in the rural areas, especially among members of ethnic groups.
A power outage occurred while I was interviewing Liao Yanfei, head of Jinsha village, in the small room where he stores cured meat.
I am in a dilemma. I want to leave the village and earn more money in a big city like I did before, but that's not possible.
Every Friday morning, a dozen parents with hearing-impaired children gather to learn sign language at a workshop in Southwest China's Guizhou province.
En route to Shapotou, there is not much to see except an endless sea of sand. The district, in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, is located where the Yellow River meets the Tengger Desert. For more than five decades researchers have been coming here to fight desertification. Li Xinrong is one of them.
Wang Liangzhen begins by tying a knot around the mule's neck and binding its four legs with a rope, clamping its upper lip with a pair of pliers. Then he starts to work on its feet. Wang is a farrier - a pedicurist, of sorts, whose clients are horses, mules, donkeys and sheep.
It seems impossible these days to escape the Great London Smog.
US President Barack Obama's tenure will end next month, leaving behind eight years of roller-coaster China-US ties.
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