China's economic growth beat forecasts to reach 6.9 percent year-on-year in 2017, marking the first acceleration since 2010 despite financial regulatory tightening and measures against pollution that affect growth.
China will expand nationwide this year a pilot project assigning criminal defense lawyers to represent defendants in criminal cases who don't have lawyers to protect their human rights, a senior official from the Ministry of Justice said.
Chinese children spend too much time studying and not enough on activities that develop their social skills, which could affect their ability to forge personal and professional relationships as adults, research shows.
Beijing residents experienced a December unlike any in recent memory, with the air quality as good as in southern coastal regions like tropical Hainan island. The clean air placed the capital for the first time among the 10 best cities for air quality, the top environment authority said on Thursday.
The Ministry of Commerce challenged on Thursday the objectivity and accountability of "notorious markets" list by the United States.
In November, I wrote about the passions aroused by college-level "American football" in the United States. I compared and contrasted this sport, known as ganlanqiu or "olive ball" in China because of the ball's shape, with the system of scholastic athletics here.
Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.
It may help rally mankind, says a US senior China watcher
Births fell by some 3.5 percent last year on the Chinese mainland, from 17.86 million in 2016 to 17.23 million last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
China will halt and prohibit all business-oriented land reclamation activities and abolish local governments' authority over the matter in the strictest-ever control over reclamation, according to the State Oceanic Administration.
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