Solar tree truly green in Xiongan

A solar photovoltaic system has been installed on top of an artificial tree in the Xiongan New Area in Hebei province.

Tourists to help find missing children

A Spring Festival temple fair in Kaifeng, Henan province, has attracted major media attention after it printed information about missing children along with admission tickets and encouraged tourists to help share them through social media.

Isolated village bids farewell to Lunar New Year in celebration

TAIYUAN - Bai Wuzi has called a cave his home for 35 years. It is where, in borrowed clothes, he married his blind wife and where their son and daughter were conceived and born. Xiazhai is a remote village between two mountains in Kelan county, Shanxi province.

Historic battlefield disrespect slammed

Two men posing for pictures dressed in imperial Japanese military uniforms in front of a Nanjing memorial site have been severely criticized online.

Counterfeiters of popular TCM remedy detained

Shanghai's food and drug watchdog and the municipal police recently cracked a major case of producing and selling counterfeit ejiao, a gelatin made of donkey hides, while falsely using a famous brand name.

Authorities underline caution on trips home

The country's traffic authority has warned of traffic safety risks after 11 people died and 20 were injured in a single traffic accident during the peak of the Spring Festival travel rush.

Airborne Silk Road helps boost Zhengzhou's fortunes

More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Silk Road unlocked the potential of economic exchanges and trade via camel with distant countries. Nowadays, air transportation is playing a key role.

Giant panda may be mother again after insemination

TAIPEI - Female giant panda, Yuan Yuan, received artificial insemination on Tuesday and Wednesday with sperm from male giant panda Tuan Tuan at Taipei Zoo. Both born in 2004, the pair were given as a goodwill gift to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland in 2008. They had their first and only cub so far, Yuan Zai, on July 6, 2013, also by artificial insemination.

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Fishing bans extended on Yellow River

Maintaining stocks, protecting ecology main motives; violators may face criminal penalty

Filial piety fund emerges to help make virtue thrive

ZHENGZHOU - On a bulletin board in Licun village, Henan province, hangs a list of all residents aged 70 or above, followed by the names of their children and the contributions each child has made to a special fund. For centuries, Chinese people have highly valued the way they treat their parents, called filial piety. Nowadays, authorities in rural areas have even turned to a filial piety fund.

Foreign coaches embrace their roles in China

Even with differences in culture and occasional homesickness getting in the way, foreign coaches who are assisting with China's winter sports have embraced their mission.