China has decided that the environmental protection tax - levied on air, water, solid waste and noise pollution starting on Monday - will all go to local governments, a move designed to boost their enthusiasm and further invigorate the environmental protection campaign.
General Secretary Xi Jinping urged the Party's senior officials to take a leading role in maintaining the unified leadership of central authorities, boosting frugality and fighting corruption.
News that Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp, had been elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering - the only nonacademic invited to join this year - has put overseas academicians and the role of foreign experts in the spotlight.
China and Pakistan are ready to discuss with Afghanistan extending the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said.
Ancient oracle bone inscriptions - the earliest documentary evidence found in China - became the 13th Chinese documentary heritage inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, a senior official from the State Archives Administration said on Tuesday.
China released regional rankings for its green development index on Tuesday, the first time the country has evaluated local performance based on environment-related indicators rather than speed of GDP growth.
My 6-year-old thinks I'm a baby - at least when I speak Mandarin.
Item from Dec 27, 1984, in China Daily: The Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant, which just celebrated its 120th anniversary, is expanding operations at home and abroad ... The restaurant plans to open roastduck restaurants in Frankfurt, Bangkok and Tokyo.
China urged Japan to adhere to the strategy of maintaining a purely defensive military and the path of peaceful development, and to act cautiously in its military and security affairs, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular news conference on Tuesday.
Japan's ruling coalition was called to strengthen political trust and properly tackle differences with the Communist Party of China to boost mutually beneficial cooperation and keep improving bilateral ties, a senior CPC member said on Tuesday.
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