Item from Nov 8, 1998, in China Daily: Unimaginable changes have taken place in Chinese drinking habits in the past two decades. Until recently, no one would have thought of buying drinking water at a store, but now China produces 1.8 million metric tons of mineral water for sale every year.
China's top legislature made public a widely anticipated draft law on Tuesday that would improve the supervision of government workers and replace the controversial Party practice of shuanggui with a new detention system.
Xi'an, Shaanxi province, aims to become a global center for cutting-edge technology by 2025, officials said on Tuesday.
UNESCO voted to support the creation of a teacher education center at Shanghai Normal University during the international agency's recent 39th general conference in Paris. The motion passed without debate.
The new head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, You Quan, said on Tuesday that department workers must study and implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress to better serve the country.
Ever since coal-burning heating systems were fired up in mid-October, residents in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, have suffered from virtually constant smog, arousing queries about what the government is doing about it.
China is ready to coordinate with Germany on a new round of consultations between the two governments to enhance pragmatic planning, Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday.
The mountain cat's status has been upgraded in the world from 'endangered' to 'vulnerable', but its future remains uncertain, as Cui Jia reports from Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, with Yang Yang in Yushu, Qinghai.
Greater recognition of the Ili pika, an endangered species of mammal that only lives in the Tianshan Mountains in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is further threatening the animal, according to Li Weidong who discovered the species.
One night in late October, Zhao Yuhe found herself standing onstage at a film festival in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, flabbergasted to have just received the best actress award. The 83-year-old told the audience that she was surprised to have won, because she is a farmer, illiterate, and cannot speak Mandarin.
While most farmers in Gaochun district in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, make a living breeding crabs, a popular delicacy in China, during the autumn months, Wang Guiya has made a fortune planting aquatic weeds that purify the water and feed the crustaceans.
It was 8 pm. Ouyang Pengjie opened his account on Bilibili, a livestreaming service where viewers can interact with hosts, and began to draw. Soon, he had more than 14,000 people watching him work.
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