Top talent provided with fast visa track

Promotion of a streamlined process for getting R visas for top overseas talent began nationwide on Thursday.

Cooperation with Taiwan promoted

Authorities on the Chinese mainland released 31 new measures covering exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan on Wednesday. They take effect immediately.

Goal for education: Eliminate the gap

More efforts are needed to achieve balanced development in China's compulsory education regime, as there are still great disparities between urban and rural areas - and even among schools in the same region - the Ministry of Education said on Wednesday.

Suspicious NGOs listed, face new scrutiny

The Ministry of Civil Affairs is reassuring the public that it is determined to fight fraudulent and unregistered nongovernmental organizations as it published the names of some 250 suspicious entities identified since the beginning of the year.

Man fined for abandoning wife's fertilized eggs in landmark case

A man was ordered by a court to compensate his wife for mental anguish after he secretly stopped paying storage fees for her frozen embryos during their divorce proceedings in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in the first case of its kind in China.

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Lunar New Year goes global, thanks to travel

Spring Festival has become a golden week for global tourism, with Chinese travelers this year visiting at least 800 destinations in more than 70 countries and regions in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia during the seven-day break, according to a new report.

New app to boost Yunnan tourism

A government-sponsored app - E-Travel in Yunnan - covering transportation, accommodations and ticket reservations in the province, is scheduled for release on Thursday, officials said.

Special report to focus on human development trend

China's reset to a more human and sustainable development model - characterized by a "people-oriented" focus - as expressed in the China National Human Development Report to be released in December, will help spread its successful experience to more developing countries, according to United Nations Resident Coordinator Nicholas Rosellini.

True to his dream, a farmer lifts community with flowers

Tong Qijun believes in flower power.

New rules on air pollution in the works

China is drafting tailored air pollution control measures for 28 cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as part of a national three-year campaign, the top environmental authority said on Tuesday.

Study sheds light on diet of giant panda

CHENGDU - A study has shed new light on how bamboo, a fibrous plant, provides nutrition for giant pandas, which feed almost exclusively on it.