Data on poverty relapse rates and impoverished households' income stability will figure in evaluations of provincial districts' poverty alleviation efforts in 2017, according to a senior official from the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
Five local officials in Hebei province have been sacked for embezzling poverty relief funds or failing to implement anti-poverty programs in their region, China's top disciplinary watchdog said on Wednesday.
"The lobbying was an arduous battle - eight mouths versus more than 200," said Huang Dashan, Party chief of the Pona village committee, recalling the difficulty he and seven colleagues had to persuade the villagers to demolish their old adobe homes in 2005 to make way for new home inns.
China plans to spend 732 billion yuan ($112.7 billion) on railway projects in 2018 to continue building its world-leading rail system, said Lu Dongfu, general manager of China Railway Corp, the nation's railway operator, on Tuesday.
China plans to issue management guidelines to crack down on commercial bribery and tighten rules on product quality and environmental protection for its centrally controlled, State-owned enterprises operating in overseas markets, the country's top SOE regulator said on Tuesday.
The public can report crimes committed by military personnel or damaging information related to national security to military authorities via a new website that began operating on Monday.
China supports the idea of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea using the 2018 Winter Olympics to improve ties, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The ROK will host the Games in Pyeongchang in February.
French President Emmanuel Macron's upcoming visit to China is expected to bear fruit for Chinese-French cooperation in such areas as nuclear power, analysts said.
I can still remember my first sex education class at school in Britain. My classmates and I were all about 11, and our introduction to "the birds and bees" was initially a video showing a family playing badminton at a nudist resort.
Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.
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