Item from Dec 13, 1988, in China Daily: A public toilet in downtown Beijing is carpeted. This is part of Beijing's efforts to improve the capital's dirty and smelly public toilets, the target of constant complaints from residents and foreign tourists.
Premier Li Keqiang called on China's 11 pilot free trade zones to improve market management, including the negative list for market access and internet-related services, to build a better business environment and stimulate market vitality.
Tourism development in some poverty-stricken villages in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, has helped lift people out of a difficult financial situation, according to villagers.
Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in's first state visit to China is expected to boost bilateral ties after the two countries reached some consensuses on the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system's deployment, analysts said.
A three-year national campaign to prevent fires sparked by electrical appliances has received extra resources following a major fatal blaze in Beijing last month, according to a senior fire control official.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, stressed that the fight against undesirable work styles should not be stopped.
China, Russia and India agreed to maintain regional security and economic architecture in the Asia-Pacific, according to a joint statement issued on Monday after the 15th trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of the three countries.
Sun Zhengcai, the former secretary of Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, has been placed under investigation on suspicion of accepting bribes, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Monday.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank announced on Monday a $250 million loan for a natural gas project in Beijing, the bank's first such investment in China, to help cut coal use and improve air quality in the capital area.
A Chinese-made communications satellite became the first "export" of such a spacecraft to an Arab country when it was launched by China on Monday for Algeria.
"Good morning," I say to my colleagues as I arrive for work each day. "Good morning," they reply without fail.
Item from Dec 12, 1990, in China Daily: Chinese zoologists are offering a unique Christmas gift to wildlife-lovers by successfully breeding and raising - for the first time in the world - giant panda twins in the Chengdu Zoo in Sichuan province.
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