Three days a week, reef protector Fu Mingyou, 42, travels to Xishazhou Island with three other workers after sailing 4 nautical miles from Zhaoshu Island in Hainan province. There, they collect garbage brought in by the tides, mainly plastic bags and glass bottles, in the surrounding waters.
The year's first round of smog began blanketing much of the nation's northern region on Friday and is forecast to last for a week, environmental officials said. Thirty-one cities including Beijing and Tianjin issued an orange alert, the second highest, on Friday.
Scholars, experts and business leaders involved in English-language education in China who gathered at an annual meeting of the industry in Beijing on Friday agreed to make joint efforts to boost the spread and passing along of traditional culture among the country's youth.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, urged continuous efforts to govern the Party with strict discipline and full implementation of the spirit of the Party's 19th National Congress.
One of the most frequently asked questions Qu Qingshan hears from foreign audiences is: With 89 million members, how does the Communist Party of China stay united?
China is willing to better synergize its development plan with Cambodia and jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative to further consolidate cooperation on key projects of industrial capacity and investment, Premier Li Keqiang said.
China supports the efforts of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea to push for dialogue and communication for the resolution of the Korean Peninsula issue, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday.
China said a naval mission in its own territorial waters is beyond reproach and justifiable after Japan lodged a protest about a Chinese frigate entering waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands on Thursday.
"So this is Christmas, and what have you done?" Well, in my case, the answer to the question posed in John Lennon's seasonal song is that I traveled back to my home in the United Kingdom for the first time in 15 months
Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.
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