Authorities underline caution on trips home

The country's traffic authority has warned of traffic safety risks after 11 people died and 20 were injured in a single traffic accident during the peak of the Spring Festival travel rush.

Airborne Silk Road helps boost Zhengzhou's fortunes

More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Silk Road unlocked the potential of economic exchanges and trade via camel with distant countries. Nowadays, air transportation is playing a key role.

Giant panda may be mother again after insemination

TAIPEI - Female giant panda, Yuan Yuan, received artificial insemination on Tuesday and Wednesday with sperm from male giant panda Tuan Tuan at Taipei Zoo. Both born in 2004, the pair were given as a goodwill gift to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland in 2008. They had their first and only cub so far, Yuan Zai, on July 6, 2013, also by artificial insemination.

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Fishing bans extended on Yellow River

Maintaining stocks, protecting ecology main motives; violators may face criminal penalty

Filial piety fund emerges to help make virtue thrive

ZHENGZHOU - On a bulletin board in Licun village, Henan province, hangs a list of all residents aged 70 or above, followed by the names of their children and the contributions each child has made to a special fund. For centuries, Chinese people have highly valued the way they treat their parents, called filial piety. Nowadays, authorities in rural areas have even turned to a filial piety fund.

Foreign coaches embrace their roles in China

Even with differences in culture and occasional homesickness getting in the way, foreign coaches who are assisting with China's winter sports have embraced their mission.

Trains kept as clean as a whistle

Around 2 pm, a van carrying a full load of used train bedding pulled into Xing Cheng Laundry Factory in a northern suburb of Southwest China's Chongqing municipality.

Festival ties villagers to their roots

For many people on the coast of Guangdong province, the Lunar New Year is more than a chance for a grand feast, it is a reminder for the young of their 1,000-year cultural tradition called Nian Li.

Welding a brighter future

Li Wanjun said he can help realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation through his welding gun.

China stresses non-first-use nuclear pledge

A senior Chinese diplomat said Saturday that the country is committed to the principle of non-first-use of nuclear weapons,

Village chief helps cultivate prosperity

Yin Jiping, Party chief of a village in North China's Hebei province, said he began carrying out new plans to increase the prosperity of villagers after receiving inspiration from the central government.