Chinese and US troops perform a joint confined-space rescue operation at Camp Rilea Armed Forces Training Facility of the Oregon Army National Guard in Warrenton, Oregon.Yin Bogu / Xinhua
The newly established national financial regulatory body is designed to be the top-level executor and coordinator of the State Council's macroeconomic policies rather than to only safeguard the inflated financial sector, according to experts directly involved in the committee's preparatory work.
Legal professionals have welcomed a revision to the law that aims to tackle the growing number of lawsuits related to smartphone apps.
In some developed countries, people with intellectual disabilities, such as autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome are enrolled in supported employment programs that offer them the opportunity to work. Now China is catching up.
Since the central government is advancing coordinated development of the Pearl River Delta with the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions with the aim of it becoming the world's leading bay area by GDP, few doubt the importance of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) in helping Hong Kong consolidate its status as a key global financial, shipping and trading center, and enhancing its overall competitiveness.
KABUL - Concerns are growing for children in Afghanistan, with poor access to schools and worsening malnutrition becoming increasingly worrying for health agencies.
SEOUL - A string of workplace sexual harassment exposes in recent weeks has triggered angry calls for boycotts of the companies involved, among them a Hyundai subsidiary.
The 19th China International Industry Fair held in Shanghai earlier this month confirmed for lay people what industry insiders knew for a while - that global corporate giants as well as domestic companies operating in China are resolutely digitalizing their factories, systems and processes as if their future depended on new technologies such as intelligent manufacturing powered by industrial cloud platform.
China's sharing economy has just been taken to a whole new level by Zhima Credit of Ant Financial, Alibaba's finance arm, making it even more citizen-friendly.
A bold idea came to Nan Rendong's mind in the early 1990s, and it took him more than two decades to fulfill his "unreachable" dream.
MANCHESTER, England - Paul Pogba, returning from a 12-match layoff with a hamstring problem, made an immediate impact with Manchester United on Saturday, setting up the equalizer for Anthony Martial before scoring his team's third goal in a 4-1 romp over Newcastle United.
The car industry in 2017 has seen slowing growth. However, there's always a silver lining, with the premium car market standing slightly higher in spite of the industry-wide trend.
If there is anything that carmakers have in common in a market as fast-changing as China's, it is their conviction in the prospects for SUVs and electric cars, or even better still, electric SUVs.